Senior Civil Engineer — Local Streets & Transport

Mott MacDonald; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Life assurance up to 4x basic salary

Income protection

Flexible benefits and annual bonus

Job summary

Mott MacDonald is seeking an experienced Senior Civil Engineer to join the Liverpool Local Streets and Infrastructure team. You will deliver highways, active travel, and infrastructure projects, combining technical execution with project and task management across feasibility, concept, detailed design and construction stages.

The role offers opportunities to broaden technical capability, develop project and commercial management, support work-winning and mentor junior colleagues in a hybrid

Qualifications

• A degree in Civil Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status.
• Experience in the design and delivery of highways, local streets or civil infrastructure projects.
• Experience of Section 278 and Section 38 highway works.
• Ability to manage budgets, programmes, resources, quality and technical delivery.
• Experience of digital delivery and common data environments, including Autodesk Construction Cloud and ProjectWise.

Responsibilities

• Manage the planning, design and delivery of highways and infrastructure tasks or projects to agreed quality, programme, budget and scope.
• Developing and coordinating designs for local roads, streets, active travel schemes, public realm and development infrastructure.
• Applying relevant standards and guidance, including DMRB, the Specification for Highways Works, Manual for Streets, LTN 1/20, Sewerage Sector Guidance and local authority requirements.
• Delivering projects associated with Section 278 and Section 38 agreements and working with private developers, contractors and local authorities.
• Undertaking technical checks and supporting the approval of design deliverables.
• Applying health, safety and wellbeing requirements, including designer responsibilities and safe-by-design principles.
• Coordinating multidisciplinary inputs and communicating interfaces, risks, assumptions and design decisions clearly.
• Managing resources, preparing and monitoring programmes, tracking budgets and identifying change, risk and early warnings.
• Supporting the preparation of fee proposals, bids and technical submissions.
• Building effective relationships with clients and contributing to the development of repeat business.
• Using digital delivery processes and common data environments, including Autodesk Construction Cloud and ProjectWise where applicable.
• Mentoring and supporting the development of apprentices, graduates and junior engineers.
• Working collaboratively with UK and global delivery teams.

Skills

Highways design

Local streets experience

Project management

Client engagement

Health and safety awareness

Mentoring juniors

Education

Bachelor in Civil Engineering

Chartered Engineer status

Tools

Autodesk Construction Cloud

ProjectWise

Job description

Mott MacDonald is seeking an experienced Senior Civil Engineer to join the Liverpool Local Streets and Infrastructure team. You will deliver highways, active travel, and infrastructure projects, combining technical execution with project and task management across feasibility, concept, detailed design and construction stages.

The role offers opportunities to broaden technical capability, develop project and commercial management, support work-winning and mentor junior colleagues in a hybrid