Principal Highways Engineer

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Overview

We are working with a consultancy looking for an enthusiastic Principal Highway Designer to join our expanding team. This role offers the opportunity to work on a wide range of development planning projects across the UK, supporting schemes from concept through to delivery.

What you’ll be doing

• Preparing preliminary designs for highway links, junctions, active travel corridors, and traffic calming schemes.
• Producing swept path analyses and vehicle tracking assessments.
• Contributing to technical reports, including site access appraisals, Stage 1 Road Safety Audit briefs, Designer’s Responses, and S278 Preliminary Design Check submissions.

What we’re looking for

• Minimum of 5 years’ highway design experience with strong AutoCAD skills.
• Ideally, experience using Civil 3D.
• Solid understanding of highway design guidance, including MfS, DMRB, and LTN 1/20.
• Proficiency with the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions and Traffic Signs Manual.
• Experience with S278/S38 Agreements.
• Knowledge of SPONS Civil Engineering and Highway Works.
• Awareness of traffic modelling and its role in shaping highway design.
• Professional qualifications (EngTech / IEng / CEng) and membership of ICE, CIHT, or CILT (desirable).

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