Overview

Senior Highways Engineer (Liveable Places) – WSP in the UK & Ireland

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What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives and shape a career as unique as you.

Role summary

A Little More About Your Role…

Liveable Places work with a wide range of local authority and private clients to help them achieve placemaking ambitions. The team delivers schemes from concept to delivery, including public realm, traffic engineering, transport planning, road safety, traffic signals, pedestrian/traffic modelling, active travel and parking. This role provides an opportunity to play a pivotal part in Liveable Places and contribute to its growth.

Responsibilities

• Act as Project Manager on a wide range of projects delivering liveable places and better sustainable transport routes in urban and rural settings
• Work directly with clients to meet their sustainable transport needs and help grow and develop the work with them
• Demonstrate traffic engineering or transport planning experience, including traffic signals design and modelling
• Prepare and review reports, drawings (CAD), schedules and other documents in accordance with design standards and guidance (LTN 1/20, LTN 1/24, Traffic Signs Manual, MfS, MfS 2, DMRB, CDM 2015)
• Be responsible for the financial performance of projects
• Undertake technical review and checking of design deliverables within the team
• Collaborate with the Liveable Places team and the wider WSP Transport group to achieve objectives

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate

• A civil engineering, transport engineering or transport planning degree
• Membership of a relevant professional body
• Chartered Engineer or Chartered Transport Planning Professional status
• Proven ability to lead and manage project teams
• Proven track record in project management and financial control
• Passion for mentoring and developing talent
• Transport, traffic signals, road safety or highway engineering experience
• Good spoken and written communication skills, with the ability to liaise with public sector officials, the public and senior colleagues

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

About us

We are one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Our people are united by the purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion. With a strong UK&I presence and international support, we are dedicated to our local communities and driven by collaboration.

What’s in it for you

• Work-life balance with hybrid working policy (work from home two days a week) and access to modern offices across the UK
• Inclusivity and belonging: a culture that values diverse backgrounds and experiences with employee resource groups
• Health & wellbeing: Thrive programme, Virtual GP service, workplace adjustments, Gymflex, and menopause support
• Flex your time: WSP My Hour to take one hour daily for personal activities; part-time and flexible working options; additional leave purchases; flexible bank holidays
• Your development: training, mentoring, and opportunities toward Chartership

Seniority type and job function

• Seniority level: Not Applicable
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Professional Services

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria and will provide workplace adjustments on request.