About the Role
and our Ideal Candidate
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 the roleTo support the Senior Engineer to design and deliver a range of highway and transportation schemes.
About you
- Enthusiastic to learn and develop technical skills in highways & transportation.
- Undertakes own self-learning and motivated to undertake a range of tasks.
- Keen to carry out site visits and liaise with various stakeholders.
- Attention to detail to produce quality drawings and apply relevant design standards and guidelines.
- Promote Health & Safety practices.
- IT proficient in software packages.
- Strong problem-solving skills, logical planned thought process.
- Understanding of a Local Authority is beneficial.
- Local knowledge of Kingston and Sutton highway network is beneficial.
- Good Data analytical skills.
About Us Shape the future of our streets and communities. This is an exciting opportunity for a Graduate Engineer (Highway & Transportation) 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. 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. Electric vehicle leasing scheme
12. Confidential health & wellbeing and counselling support