Senior / Principal Highways Engineer – Development Management      
London & Stevenage
 
Are you a dynamic, creative and delivery-focused Highways Engineering / Transport Planning professional.  Can you use your first-rate technical skills to assist in a new and exciting relationship with a County Council.

Seeking an experienced Highways Engineer / Transport Planner at either Senior or Principal Consultant grade to be a team leader. This is a pivotal, challenging and exciting role, which requires the person to manage a team of staff and provide technical work outputs to internal and external stakeholders and delivery partners. 

The successful candidate will have the ability if desired to follow a hybrid office / working from home approach in the role, although it is expected that he/she will work in Stevenage at least 2 days per week and be able to travel to site visits and meetings as and when required. 

Requirements:

For this key role we require candidates to have:

• Significant highway design experience, ideally working on behalf of a local authority although working for a private sector developer would also be beneficial.
• Experience in providing professional and technical advice with highways Section 278 and Section 38 Agreement works, involving either preparation or review of developers’ proposals for highway works and checking specifications for works on adopted highways or roads offered for adoption.
• Proven project management capabilities and desirable (although not essential) to have staff management experience.
• Prepared work programmes, costings and budget management/monitoring for highway schemes.
• Reviewed developers’ method statements and traffic management proposals
• Experience of undertaking road safety audits at all appropriate stages of the scheme.
• Carried out site inspections during and following the construction period, including preparation of remedial works and liaison with developers
• Reviewed Transport Assessments and other transport and highways-related documents received as part of a planning application.
• Provided pre-application advice to developers on Transport and Highways matters.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree or Masters in a relevant subject (e.g., civil engineering, transport planning)
• Professional accreditation, such as MICE or CIHT.

For further information on this or any other related positions do not hesitate to contact Peter on 07881788772 or peter@huphuphup.com

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