Senior Highways Engineer (Traffic Management)

COSTAIN GROUP; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading smart infrastructure solutions company in the UK is seeking a Senior Highways Engineer (Traffic Management) to oversee traffic management design and planning. The role requires significant experience in highways and traffic management, alongside essential qualifications such as an IHE TTM Engineering Professional Certificate. The successful candidate will support various managerial staff and ensure quality compliance in traffic management designs, while also visiting sites to evaluate layout changes. Flexibility and willingness to travel are key aspects of this position.

Qualifications

• Experience with temporary traffic management engineering.
• Knowledge of traffic management design standards.
• Essential qualifications for traffic safety supervision.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage traffic management projects.
• Implement quality inspections and audits.
• Collaborate effectively with team members.
• Assist in training junior staff.

Skills

Significant experience within a highways & traffic management environment

Understanding of NH / TfL procedures

Basic understanding of Microsoft packages

Good communication skills

Skills in computer aided design (CAD)

Full Driving licence

Education

(IHE) TTM Engineering Professional Certificate (Level 4)

NHSS 12 Traffic Safety Supervisor

NHSS 12D M7

NHSS 12 A/B

Job description

Job Description

As our Senior Highways Engineer (Traffic Management) within our Highways & Transportation Engineering Team, you will be responsible for designing and planning for all matters relating to traffic management at any temporary change in risk on the highways.

You will oversee the engineering of the traffic management using a risk-based approach. Additional support to the Highways & Transportation Engineering design team will be essential and likewise reciprocated back in this role.

Please note that this role requires site visits to verify existing and proposed layouts, so flexibility and willingness to travel is essential.

Responsibilities

• Support the Traffic Management Lead
• Support the Traffic Management Manager.
• Support the Deputy Traffic Management Manager, TSSs and Incident Support teams.
• Design, manage and coordinate all matters relating to the traffic management design.
• Implement a quality approach to the inspection and audit of TTM.
• Ensuring the Temporary Traffic Regulation Order (TTRO) or Temporary Traffic Regulation Notice (TTRN) are applied for and complied with
• Ensuring the TTM design and engineering enables a safe system of work for all, to accepted minimum standard e.g. as per Traffic Signs Manual Chapter 8 and associated documents including the DMRB, CIS53 and relevant Raising the Bar documents.
• Gain information from TM Managers for the TM packages and update any drawings
• Attend monthly Costain managers meeting
• Attend quarterly Costain standards meetings with the supply chain
• Assist with closing out observations in a timely manner with the TM team
• Costing/estimating assistance
• Support and assist the Highways and Transportation Engineering design team
• Support junior staff with learning and development related to TM design
• Responsible for achieving safe‑by‑design compliant, future proofed, cost effective and sustainable outputs
• Support all stages of project delivery, where required

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Significant experience within a highways & traffic management environment
• Understanding of NH / TfL procedures.
• Basic understanding of Microsoft packages
• Full Driving licence
• Good communication skills
• Skills in computer aided design (CAD)
• The use of all forms of legalization in relation to the design of temporary traffic management engineering.

Desirable

• Ability to prioritise.
• Highly significant and proven experience within a traffic management design environment.
• Manage and review design process from start to finish.

Qualifications

Essential

• (IHE) TTM Engineering Professional Certificate. (Level 4)
• NHSS 12 Traffic Safety Supervisor
• NHSS 12D M7
• NHSS 12 A/B
• First aid in the workplace training
• Conflict management training
• Safety Critical Medical

Desirable

• (IHE) Professional Diploma at level 5 or above
• Civil Engineering Qualifications

About Us

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future‑shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

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