Description
We have an exciting opportunity for a Highways Engineer to join WSP Local Government teams based in either our Exeter or Taunton offices.
You'll be part of a highly collaborative team delivering a wide range of significant highways, bridges, and infrastructure projects across the County for several Local Authority clients in the region.
As a Highways Engineer, your responsibilities will include:
- Developing highway designs on multi-disciplinary projects through various stages of the project lifecycle.
- Ensuring projects are delivered to programme, budget, technical standards, and legal requirements.
- Assisting Project Managers with planning, programming, technical input, pricing of project briefs, proposals, and cost estimation.
- Preparing design documentation, drawings, reports, and technical submissions.
- Working across a portfolio of varied multi-disciplinary projects simultaneously.
- Collaborating with clients, stakeholders, and internal teams to ensure successful project delivery.
- Supporting site-based activities on an ad hoc basis, including supervision and monitoring contractor compliance with contract requirements.
To be successful in this role, you'll need to demonstrate:
- A passion for design and a drive to develop innovative, practical engineering solutions.
- A degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent experience within a highway design environment.
- Experience in multidisciplinary highway design across different project stages.
- Technical knowledge in areas such as road geometry, junction design, active travel schemes, drainage systems, road restraint systems, and traffic signs/road markings.
- Proficiency in relevant design software such as Autodesk Civil 3D, Bentley OpenRoads Designer, InfoDrainage and/or PDS.