Senior Highways Engineer

Calderdale Council; Halifax; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/flexible working

Excellent pension

Competitive salary

Job summary

Calderdale Council is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead a small design team within our Strategic Infrastructure Service. This role focuses on delivering highway safety improvements, sustainable transport, and public realm enhancements that benefit Calderdale's residents, businesses and visitors.

Working in the Traffic Engineering Team, you will shape the future of the highway network by delivering schemes from concept to implementation.

Qualifications

• Experience leading or supervising technical teams.
• Strong highway design and traffic engineering experience.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation, standards and local authority procedures.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of highway and traffic engineering projects, managing work programmes, budgets, estimates and delivery.
• Prepare design solutions and develop highway safety and improvement schemes.
• Ensure compliance with current legislation, design standards and Council policies.
• Provide technical advice to elected Members, colleagues and the public.
• Collaborate with internal services, developers, consultants and external stakeholders.
• Commission and coordinate the work of consultants, contractors and specialists.
• Supervise and mentor trainees and other staff.

Skills

Highway design

Traffic engineering

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

TROs experience

Job description

37 hours per week, permanent

Please note: Internal at risk or redeployee applicants will be seen in the first instance.

Help shape safer, smarter streets across Calderdale

Are you an experienced highway professional looking to take the next step in your career? Do you have a passion for safety and delivering innovative highway design and traffic engineering solutions that make a real difference to communities? This is an opportunity to lead a talented team of engineers, influence transport policy, and deliver projects that have a visible and lasting impact across Calderdale.

We're seeking a Senior Engineer to lead a small design team within our Strategic Infrastructure Service. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering highway safety improvements, sustainable transport initiatives, and public realm enhancements supporting Calderdale's residents, businesses and visitors.

Working at the heart of our Traffic Engineering Team, you'll help shape the future of the highway network by leading the design and delivery of schemes that improve road safety, support economic growth, and contribute to wider transport and environmental objectives.

We offer a competitive salary package, including an excellent pension, and Hybrid/flexible working with family friendly policies.

About the Team

The Traffic Engineering Team is responsible for developing and delivering highway safety and traffic management solutions across Calderdale. Our work ranges from highway improvement and sustainable transport projects to public realm schemes and developer-funded highway works.

As part of the team, you'll contribute to the delivery of projects funded through the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS) programme (and its replacement), as well as a growing portfolio of highway and infrastructure projects.

Your key responsibilities and duties will include

• Leading and supporting a team of Engineers in the design and delivery of highway and traffic engineering projects, managing work programmes, budgets, estimates and project delivery.
• Prepare design solutions and develop innovative and practical highway safety and improvement schemes.
• Ensure compliance with current legislation, design standards and Council policies.
• Provide technical advice to elected Members, colleagues and members of the public.
• Work collaboratively with internal services, developers, consultants and external stakeholders.
• Commission and co-ordinate the work of consultants, contractors and specialist providers.
• Supervise and mentor trainees and other staff.

What We're Looking for:

• Proven experience leading or supervising technical teams.
• Strong experience in highway design and traffic engineering.
• A strong working knowledge of relevant legislation, standards and local authority procedures.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience delivering engineering projects from concept through to implementation.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and with external partners.
• Experience in delivering Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs) would be advantageous.

More information on specific requirements is detailed in the Role Profile.

Why Join Us?

Calderdale is a beautiful metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, at the heart of the Yorkshire Pennines, between Manchester and Leeds. Its spectacular natural landscape, vibrant towns, quirky culture, tremendous architecture, thriving businesses and community spirit make it a great place to live, work and visit. To find out more please visit: www.visitcalderdale.com

We have a range of workplace benefits available to all our employees:

• A wide variety of projects to work on, experience to gain and a wide range of projects to make your mark on.
• A small but dedicated Team, with the opportunities to make your individual mark and see projects all the way through the lifecycle.
• Workload comprising of a mix of local and strategic issues.
• Close collaboration with other in-house teams.
• Strong learning culture with a focus on continuous development and access to the wider training and accreditation opportunities with formal links to the ICE.
• Hybrid/flexible working with family friendly policies
• Competitive salary package, including excellent pension.
• Competitive leave entitlement
• Wellbeing support and staff networks
• Development and training opportunities
• Staff discounts and benefits schemes, including salary sacrifice car leasing, cyclescheme and travel offers

Closing date: 23rd August 2026

Interview Dates: tbc

This role is based in the UK. Home Office guidance states that candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK prior to commencing employment, either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa.

If you do not have the right to work in the UK, you must consider your own eligibility for sponsorship for a particular role through the Skilled Worker visa route before applying. To be eligible for sponsorship you'll usually need to be paid the standard salary rate of at least £41,700 per year (unless exceptions apply) and meet the other eligibility criteria. Ensure you are eligible before applying.

Previous applicants need not apply

As part of our Vision (https://www.calderdale.gov.uk/vision/ ) we aim to be a talented, resilient and inclusive community. We welcome applications from all and offer a variety of flexible working / job share opportunities.

All applications are anonymised before being seen by the selection panel.

As part of our fair recruitment process, we ask that all applications are written by the candidate and that Artificial Intelligence (AI) use is limited, unless assistance is required as a reasonable adjustment for a disability. Content should be truthful, accurate, evidence based and not embellished – see guidance.