About the Role
and our Ideal Candidate
About You
- Enthusiastic to deliver a range of schemes and guide junior team members.
- Produce drawings & designs that adhere to the latest highway & transportation standards and our processes.
- Strong technical design knowledge and develop to lead in meetings with technical queries.
- Produce documents and reports in relation to design stages and Analyse traffic data and propose interventions.
- Awareness of Technical Highway design processes, such as Utilities C2,C3, CDM Regulations, Road Safety Audits, design stages and commissioning surveys.
- Previous experience of working at a Local Authority and / or Consultancy is beneficial.
- Local knowledge of Kingston and Sutton highway network.
The Design team includes a range of grades from Team Lead, Principal Engineer, Senior, Engineer, Graduate, Technician and Apprentices. The wider Design & Delivery team is approximately 30 staff and includes Street Lighting, TMOs, Planned Maintenance, Vehicle Crossovers and Surveys.
About Us
Shape the future of our streets and communities. This is an exciting opportunity for a Highway Engineer to take an instrumental role within a progressive local authority delivering meaningful, highway schemes from concept to completion. You’ll be at the heart of the full project lifecycle – from early scoping and optioneering through detailed design, procurement and hands-on construction site management – with real influence over outcomes on the ground. Working in a supportive environment, you’ll be part of a growing in-house design team and a wider, highly collaborative highways service that brings together client, commissioning, reactive, permitting and inspection teams. Here, you’ll find a welcoming workplace built on respect, collaboration and community. If you’re motivated by variety, technical challenge and the chance to see your work directly improve places and people’s everyday journeys, this role offers both professional stretch and genuine impact.
About the roleTo support the Senior Engineer and Principal Engineer to manage the design team and deliver a range of highway and transportation schemes.
Our Offer To You
As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We’re constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across however big or small; will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.
Employees have access to a wide range of benefits to enable staff to achieve a work life balance, some of which include:
1. A generous annual leave entitlement of 25-32 days, plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply) depending on service and grade.
2. Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependents leave
3. Three volunteering days per year in Kingston
4. Hybrid working (dependent on the role)
5. Flexible and agile working arrangements using Google Chromebooks
6. Learning and development portal offering a range of courses
7. Discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres
8. Interest free season ticket loans
9. Local Government Pension Scheme
10. Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
11. Zip car scheme
12. Confidential health & wellbeing and counselling support