Principal Highways Engineer

Waterman Aspen; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in the UK is seeking a Principal Highways Engineer to join their North West team. In this role, you will oversee various projects, ensuring high-quality outcomes in highway design and management. The position offers competitive salary options based on experience, an industry-leading benefits package, and the opportunity to work on significant infrastructure projects.

Benefits

Contribution to commuting mileage

Permanent health insurance

25 days annual leave plus public holidays

Company pension contribution

Salary sacrifice for additional benefits

Paid community volunteering day

Qualifications

• Significant experience in highway design and construction (10+ years).
• Eligibility to work in the UK and a full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Advise on highway engineering matters and prepare project management documentation.
• Lead a team of technical and professional staff.
• Manage financial aspects of projects and resolve issues with external parties.

Skills

Highway design

Project management

Financial management

Education

IEng or CEng Qualification

Job description

Salary: Dependent on experience, skills and location

Waterman Aspen welcomes engineers and technical specialists to make their mark by working on some of the biggest infrastructure projects or in delivering professional services across the UK on a secondment basis.Our diverse client base includes local authorities, consultancies, public bodies and construction companies.

We specialise in providing the right people, with the right skills for the job, at the right time – for as long as our clients need them.

We are proud of how much we value and support our colleagues – taking people from the very start of their careers to Chartered status and beyond. We’re a people-centric organisation, placing mutual respect and dignity in the highest regard. This is reflected in our approach to issues such as mental health and wellbeing, family friendly policies, social value, and net zero. We’re a Disability Confident Employer and an accredited Real Living Wage Employer.

We have big ambitions for the future, and we’d love for you to be part of it.

You’ll get all the benefits of being employed by us, while working on a variety of projects for our clients. Joining Waterman Aspen as a Principal Highways Engineer will see you as a key member of the North West team and you can expect:

• A varied client base where you can apply and develop your skills
• Further exposure to the industry and it’s leaders
• Working within clients being able to influence and make decisions
• UK Experience within a public, private or third sector UK based client
• Advise on options and solutions to highway engineering matters, prepare works information and project manage the successful implementation of the preferred solution.
• Prepare concept design work packages for speculative bid funding applications quickly and effectively, identifying and quantifying likely costs from outline design to project completion.
• Manage the review of external technical submissions and proposals and liaise with designers in order to resolve issues.
• Lead on and support others in the financial management of schemes from inception to completion.
• Lead, manage and direct a team of professional and technical staff to meet objectives.
• Resolve issues from councillors and third parties such as members of the public who may be affected by network issues as a result of highway works and provide input to media
• enquiries.
• Line manage staff and contractors and lead / manage and sign off design
• IEng or CEng Qualification
• Eligibility to work in the UK and a full UK driving licence
• Significant experience in highway design and construction (10+years)

As a salaried colleague, you’ll get a salary in line with your experience, skills and location along with an industry-leading benefits package:

• Contribution to commuting mileage
• Permanent health insurance
• 25 days annual leave (option to buy up to 5 more), in addition to the normal public holidays (based on a 40 hour week, pro rata for part-time colleagues)
• Company pension contribution
• Salary sacrifice to buy additional benefits
• 1 paid Waterman Aspen in the Community Day to volunteer in your local community

We have big plans for the future and we’d love for you to be part of it. If you’re interested in joining our team of engineering and technical specialists, take a look at our latest opportunities here.

We find you opportunities that perfectly match your expertise and career aspirations, with industry-leading training, development, and support at your fingertips.

Our people are the most important part of our business – in fact, they are our business – and building successful careers is what we’re all about.

Don’t just take our word for it – find out what some of our colleagues have to say about their career with Waterman Aspen.