Senior Highway Engineer_BID Position

SYSTRA; Ahmedabad District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,400,000; Full time

Job summary

SYSTRA India seeks a Senior Highway Engineer to lead highway construction supervision and coordination across projects in India. You will review plans, monitor progress, and ensure quality control and safety compliance on site.

The candidate should have postgraduate qualification in transportation or highway engineering, with 15+ years’ experience including 6+ years in developing countries and 4+ years in hill areas, plus 5+ years in pavement design.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate in Transportation Engineering or highway engineering.

Responsibilities

• Supervise highway construction works ensuring conformity with designs, standards, and contract requirements.

Skills

15 years professional experience

6+ years in developing countries

4+ years on hill-area highway projects

5+ years as pavement expert

Flexible pavement and bituminous mix

Education

Postgraduate in Transportation Engineering or highway engineering

Job description

SYSTRA is one of the world's leading engineering and consulting groups specializing in public transport and mobility solutions. For over 65 years, the Group has been committed to helping cities and regions develop by creating, improving and modernizing their transport infrastructure and systems.

Context

In India, SYSTRA is an international consulting and engineering company operating in the fields of Metros, High Speed Rail, Railways, Roads, Buildings, Urban planning, and Water & Environment for public and private organizations.

Our engineers work with passion to deliver the most reliable, cost-effective and made-to measures solutions allowing end users to move seamlessly.

SYSTRA’s unique expertise is backed with a reputation built through technical excellence delivered on projects. Thanks to our know-how of our employees spread across India, we are present at all stages from upstream studies to operation and maintenance. We provide a comprehensive solution to manage all kinds of missions: Detailed Design Consultant, Project Management, Independent checking services.

SYSTRA India’s comprehensive know-how and expertise in Railways provides a wide spectrum of solutions for any challenge (Building a new rail link, doubling the capacity, gauge conversion, upgrading a network, improving the performance of existing lines, etc.).

Our extensive experience encompasses, Bridges, station buildings, Depots, Earthwork & Track Works, Power Supply and Transmission, Signaling & Telecommunications, Rolling Stock, Utilities diversion and yard re-modelling etc.

Our services cover the entire life cycle of the project implementation.

Currently, we are bidding for Highway projects across India. The position of Senior Highway Engineer is the key position in these BIDs.

Missions/Main Duties

• Supervise highway construction works to ensure compliance with approved designs, specifications, standards, and contract requirements.


• Review contractor’s work programs, method statements, shop drawings, and material submissions related to highway works.


• Monitor construction progress and advise on corrective actions to achieve planned targets.


• Inspect road works, including earthworks, subgrade, subbase, base course, asphalt pavement, shoulders, slopes, drainage interfaces, and road furniture.


• Ensure quality control of materials, workmanship, testing, and inspection procedures for highway works.


• Coordinate with other supervision experts to ensure proper integration of pavement, drainage, structures, traffic safety, and utility works.


• Support the Team Leader / Project Manager in contract administration and project coordination.


• Ensure that highway works are executed in accordance with safety, environmental, and social requirements.

Profile/Skills

• He/ She should be a postgraduate in Transportation Engineering or highway engineering


• He/She should havs minimum 15 years professional experience out of which at least 6 years in developing countries and in equivalent position.


• He/ She should have worked at least 4 years on similar construction works in hill areas, particularly in India.


• He/ She shall have at least 5 years experience as pavement expert in highway construction projects using modern highway technology.


• He/ She shall possess wide experience in flexible pavement and bituminous mix designs.

We commit to put people who join us at the heart of improving transportation and urban infrastructure efficiency. As we are growing, this is time to be a part of this challenging adventure. It’s not a job - it’s a career!