Senior Engineer (Highway Design & Construction)
SO1 SO3 (£34,434 - £45,091)
37 hours, Full-Time
Permanent
Hybrid: Stopford House and homeworking (a minimum of two days per week in the office)
Application Deadline: 11:59pm Sunday 14th December 2025
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: 15th December 2025
Interview Date: 19th 22nd & 23rd December 2025
Interview Type: In person at Stopford House, Stockport.
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Join us at Stockport Council MJ Local Authority of the Year 2025
Your Role
Stockport has been recognised nationally as a great place to live and work including being recognised as ‘Council of the Year’ at the MJ Awards. As a Senior Engineer (Highway Design & Construction), you’ll play an important part in our ambition to develop transport infrastructure that is green, inclusive, resilient, and safe helping to reduce air pollution and lower our overall carbon emissions.
Stockport already boasts some of the best connectivity in Greater Manchester, with regular train links into both Manchester and London, as well as a fast-growing network of walking, wheeling, and cycling routes and state-of-the-art transport interchange. Our ambitious investment programme aims to make it easier and greener for people to travel around Stockport, connecting people with access to good job opportunities and all the sport, culture and leisure facilities the borough has to offer.
Working alongside experienced professionals as part of multi-disciplinary project teams, you will be assisting with the successful development and delivery of schemes throughout the detailed design and construction phases through to hand over into operations and maintenance. You will play a key role in delivering, safe, efficient and deliverable designs for our capital programme, whilst contributing to staff development and the continuous improvement of our processes.
About You
We’re looking for two motivated and experienced professionals with a strong background in delivering highways projects within the public sector through detailed design and on-site construction. You’ll have a proven ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams to meet challenging deadlines, designing and managing highways schemes for delivery to site.
You’ll bring hands on experience in detailed design of highway schemes with competing priorities. Your ability to work with the supply chain will be key to ensuring timely, high-quality outcomes. A solid understanding of asset management principles and how they inform long-term planning, investment decisions, and lifecycle management of infrastructure will be essential.
Experience in active travel initiatives and a thoughtful approach to how infrastructure supports placemaking will be a distinct advantage.
About Us
The role is based within our Capital Delivery Service, within Strategic Infrastructure. You will work alongside teams who project manage our capital projects as well as maintaining the highway infrastructure.
You will be joining a committed, supportive and diverse team of staff, consultants and partner organisations. We are proud of what we achieve together, delivering sustainable infrastructure schemes which will shape the future of transport in Stockport. There will be opportunities to develop your own skills and career as you play a key role in delivering a variety of projects alongside experienced professionals from across the service.
At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.
If you would like to find out more about the role, please contact Andrew Varey at andrew.varey@stockport.gov.uk to arrange an informal discussion about the role.
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Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.
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