# Senior Highway Engineer

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Gloucester, Gloucestershire
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Highways Engineer to join WSP at a pivotal stage of growth in Gloucester. You'll become part of a highly collaborative and ambitious team delivering a diverse portfolio of highways, bridges and infrastructure projects that make a real difference to communities across the County.

Working closely with the Principal Highways Engineer, and our wider multi-disciplinary team, you will play a key role in the technical delivery of projects; contributing your expertise to ensure high-quality, efficient, and innovative design solutions.

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.

- Providing guidance and support to junior engineers and technicians, contributing to their professional development.

- Assisting Project Managers with planning, programming, technical input, pricing of project briefs, proposals, and cost estimation.

- Preparing and reviewing design documentation, drawings, reports, and technical submissions.

- Working across a portfolio of varied multi-disciplinary projects simultaneously.

- Coordinating with engineering and technician resources to deliver work packages effectively.

- 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 considered for this role, you will 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.

- Chartered Engineer preferred or working towards IEng or CEng status with a relevant professional institution.

- 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.

- Familiarity with relevant design standards including DMRB, Manual for Streets, TSRGD, and Local Authority guidance, including experience preparing drawings for Technical Approvals and Departures from Standards.

- Proficiency in relevant design software such as Autodesk Civil 3D, Bentley OpenRoads Designer, InfoDrainage and/or PDS.

- Understanding of Designer’s Duties under CDM regulations.

## Skills

### Required
- Civil Engineering
- highway design
- Autodesk Civil 3D
- Bentley OpenRoads Designer
- InfoDrainage
- PDS
- CDM regulations

### Nice to have
- Chartered Engineer
- IEng
- CEng

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