Engineer (Band 3) – Surface & Highway Structures

Company: Transport for London
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Location: London
Job Description:

Job title: Engineer (Band 3) Surface & Highway Structures

Salary: Circa £56,900

Grade: Pay Band 3

Contract type: TfL

Reference: 4372

Team: Surface & Highway Structures Directorate: TfL Engineering

Contract details: Permanent

Location: Southwark / Hybrid

Application closing date: Sunday 5th July at 23:59

All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right‑to‑work checks. Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK. At the present time TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.

Overview Of The Role

Transport for London (TfL) manages more than 1800 highway structures on their strategic highway network including bridges, retaining walls, road tunnels, bus station infrastructure and 9 marine piers across London. The Surface and Highway Structures (S&HS) Team is based in the TfL Engineering Directorate and provides trusted support and advice to highway and marine related teams in the organisation about structures assets. This support is a critical part of ensuring that TfL builds and maintains safe, functional and compliant structures assets and that existing structures are not adversely impacted by other internal or external works. TfL is currently looking for a Band 3 (B3) Engineer to join this established team. A technical expert in your field of highway or marine structures, you will be required to provide technical assurance for structures assets and support colleagues across TfL in a wide variety of challenges and projects. You will be comfortable liaising and working collaboratively with TfL colleagues, framework contractors, third party developers and external stakeholders, in providing technical assurance and pragmatic asset management advice getting the best outcomes for the organisation.

Skills, Knowledge And Experience

You will be educated to a minimum of Degree level or be able to demonstrate equivalent structural experience and competence in the highway and/or marine structures environment. You will ideally be a technician or graduate member working towards Chartered or Incorporated Membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers or other relevant internationally recognised institution. You will understand national technical standards, legislation, health, safety and environmental considerations, sustainability, design, construction, operation, inspection, maintenance, assessment, and industry best practices related to highway and/or marine structures. You will be able to provide technical advice about highway structures and/or marine assets, to support colleagues in operations, strategy, asset and risk management and for projects related to transport structures.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair. We understand a confidence gap can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. So please don’t hesitate to apply if you think you have what it takes even if you feel you don’t meet all the criteria. We’d love to hear from you.

Benefits

  • Final salary pension scheme
  • Free travel for you on the TfL network
  • Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home
  • 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
  • TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
  • Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
  • Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
  • Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
  • Discounted Eurostar travel

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Posted: June 23rd, 2026