Principal Urban Highways Designer

Role: Principal Transport Engineer
Location: Southwark, London.
Type: Full-Time, Permanent, Hybrid.
We're looking for a Senior or Principal Urban Highways Designer in London!
Benefits:

• Competitive Salary
• Private Healthcare
• Workplace Pension
• Training and Development
• Sponsorship of Professional Membership
• Eligibility for a performance related bonus

Company:
Your new company are a multi-disciplinary consultancy delivering services across the UK within the construction, transportation, highways, and infrastructure sectors.
Their office is situated in Southwark, London, and is home to over half of their circa. 150 staff, and they are excited to grow further.
As a business that designs and delivers projects, from office buildings and homes to entire public realms and streetscapes, they understand that reflecting the needs of the communities they serve is key to long-term success-not just for their clients but for those that use and interact with these spaces.
They pride themselves on their culture of supportive growth; providing mentoring opportunities, and assisting with both professional and personal development. They know their people are the heart of their success, and they really love what they do.
Role:
The company is looking to appoint a talented highway designer to play a key role in their growing traffic and transportation business.
The role will primarily involve leading the development of preliminary designs (RIBA Stage 1-3 designs) supported by the existing team, providing technical expertise within the team, and contributing to the future growth of the business.
The company specialises in developing active travel, public realm, traffic, and transportation schemes and undertaking transport planning studies for public and private sector clients. Often, the team is involved in the early vision and masterplanning stages to help develop a strategy on which design projects can be based.
The project work that the company undertakes is varied, challenging, and often high-profile due to the clients that they work for in Central London and across the UK. This ensures that the successful candidate will enjoy an interesting and satisfying work-life with many opportunities to develop valuable skills and experience.
Requirements:

• Relevant degree, or a post graduate qualification in Civil Engineering, or Transport, or a suitable level of professional experience to demonstrate capability.
• Good skill level and experience designing highways using AutoCAD, with experience in signal junction design desirable.
• Working knowledge of industry guidance (TSRGD, Manual for Streets, LTNs etc)
• A good level of professional work experience with Highway Authorities, with London experience highly desirable.
• Good written and spoken English.
• Outstanding attention to detail.

Desirable:

• Project management.
• Stakeholder/public engagement
• Ability to lead others and mentor junior team members.
• Experience with other software packages, i.e:
  • MS Office
  • GIS
  • Adobe Suite
  • Traffic sign design packages
  • Vehicle tracking
  • SketchUp

For more information, please contact George Banks at Aldwych Consulting on (phone number removed).

Aldwych Consulting values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

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