Senior Consultant /Engineer - Highways, Active Travel & Sustainable Transport

Aecom; Ledston; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working

AECOM University and development

Professional development programs

Job summary

AECOM is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead the design and delivery of active travel, public transport, traffic engineering, and urban realm projects from Leeds and across West Yorkshire. You will mentor junior staff, engage with clients, and ensure high-quality outputs across multiple projects.

The team values collaboration, safety, and delivering greener, inclusive transport networks with flexible hybrid working and a strong development culture.

Qualifications

• Experience in concept, preliminary, and detailed design of active travel and traffic schemes.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and MS Office.
• Familiarity with LTN 1/20, TSRGD, Manual for Streets, DMRB, Traffic Signs Manual.

Responsibilities

• Lead design development from concept through detailed design and implementation for active travel, public transport, and traffic schemes.
• Mentor graduates and technicians, and manage technical outputs.
• Coordinate with Clients and stakeholders, manage timelines and budgets, ensuring quality and safety.

Skills

Leadership

Active travel design

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

AutoCAD

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

Are you passionate about creating healthier places to live and enabling use of sustainable transport?

Are you an experienced engineer/consultant ready to take the next step in your career?

AECOM’s Leeds based Streets team is looking for a Senior Engineer to lead the design and delivery of innovative active travel, public transport, traffic engineering, and urban realm projects across Leeds, West Yorkshire and beyond. This is your opportunity to shape safer, greener, and more inclusive transport networks that have a real impact on communities.

You will be joining a strong team who are recognised as market leaders in the transportation sector, working across all stages of project development and delivery, from feasibility through to construction. More than that, we are an approachable, supporting and encouraging team who strive to work collaboratively with colleagues, clients and stakeholders.

Here’s what you’ll do:

As a Senior Engineer you’ll take a leading role in the development of scheme solutions from concept through to detailed design and implementation. You’ll manage technical outputs, mentor junior staff, directly engage with Clients, and take responsibility for the successful delivery of high-quality outputs.

Examples of some previous & current projects:

• Riverside Path, York City Council
• Active Travel Routes: Westmorland and Furness / Cumberland Council
• Northern Gateway Active Travel and Public Concept Designs
• Wakefield Bus and Cycle Priority Corridors (north and south)
• Normanton Safer Routes to Schools

Key responsibilities and requirements:

• Support with the design and delivery of active travel, public transport, general traffic engineering and urban realm schemes.
• Prepare and review technical outputs including drawings, reports, and specifications.
• Deliver all work in accordance with project briefs, design standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across AECOM and external stakeholders.
• Delegate and coordinate tasks for graduates and technicians, supporting their development.
• Manage project timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
• Champion Health & Safety best practices, including CDM responsibilities.
• Report regularly to the Principal Engineer or Project Manager on progress and risks
• Proven experience in scoping, concept, preliminary, and detailed design of active travel and traffic engineering schemes.
• Strong knowledge of design elements for active travel design and general traffic engineering (such as drainage, junctions, and carriageway improvements).
• Working knowledge of relevant design standards including LTN 1/20, TSRGD, Manual for Streets, DMRB, and the Traffic Signs Manual.
• Familiarity with active travel design auditing procedures including Active Travel England’s scheme review tools.

Why Join AECOM

At AECOM, we’re committed to fostering a culture of growth, innovation, and flexibility. You’ll benefit from:

• Flexible hybrid working
• Access to AECOM University and professional development programs.
• A comprehensive range of core and personalised benefits to support your well-being and career.
• Sports and Social Club with regular events across the team to build relationships across our teams.
• Mentorship and coaching from our existing Chartered Engineers, Supervising Civil Engineers and professional reviewers

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Experience in concept, preliminary, and detailed design of Active Travel, local roads and traffic engineering schemes and expertise in infrastructure for walking, cycling, bus priority, and traffic calming.
• Strong knowledge of design elements such as drainage, junctions, and carriageway improvements.
• Familiarity with relevant design standards including TSRGD, Manual for Streets, DMRB, and the Traffic Signs Manual.
• Understanding of Health & Safety and CDM regulations.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and Microsoft Office.

Additional Information

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve our most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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