Expression of Interest – Contractor Engagement – Highways Engineers & Road Safety Auditors

BakerHicks is a leading design, engineering, and project delivery consultancy, delivering complex and high-value projects across the UK and Europe. We operate across a range of highly regulated sectors including infrastructure, life sciences, nuclear, defence, and industrial, providing multi-disciplinary expertise from concept through to delivery.

Our strength lies in our collaborative approach, technical excellence, and ability to mobilise the right expertise at pace to support our clients’ requirements.

We’ve been innovating in design, engineering and project delivery since 1957 and operate from 14 locations for a truly European reach. For more about our company story, see: About | BakerHicks. 

BakerHicks. A Morgan Sindall Group company.  

Our Highways team supports a broad range of infrastructure and development projects, providing expertise in highway design, transportation planning, highways approvals, and road safety.

We work closely with clients, local authorities, and regulatory bodies to deliver compliant, efficient, and safe highways solutions, often as part of wider multi-disciplinary project teams. This includes supporting projects from early feasibility and planning stages through to detailed design, audit, and delivery.

We are building a talent pool of experienced Highways Engineers and Road Safety Auditors to support upcoming and future project requirements across our UK portfolio.

This is an expression of interest rather than a current requirement; however, it will operate as an active recruitment process, with opportunities to engage directly with our teams to discuss your experience and suitability for future contract work.

Successful candidates will be added to a pre-qualified, verified contractor pool, enabling faster engagement as project needs arise.

We are particularly interested in contractors with experience in one or more of the following areas:

To lead the planning, design, and delivery of highway infrastructure projects, ensuring that all works are developed in accordance with relevant standards, client requirements, and statutory obligations.

Provides technical leadership, project management support, and quality assurance throughout project lifecycles.

• Significant experience in the design and delivery of UK highway infrastructure projects. 
• Strong working knowledge of DMRB, Manual for Streets, CDM Regulations, and local authority design standards.
• Experience in highway geometry, drainage, pavement design, active travel infrastructure, and development-related highway works.
• Proficiency in relevant highway design software and CAD platforms.
• Background working on infrastructure, development, or local authority projects

To independently assess highway and traffic schemes to identify potential road safety issues and recommend measures to reduce collision risk for all road users, through the delivery and reporting of Stage 1–4 Road Safety Audits, including preparation of audit briefs and reports, site inspections, documentation of findings and recommendations, and participation in audit meetings and reviews as required.

• Appropriate road safety audit accreditation and training. 
• Demonstrable experience undertaking Road Safety Audits on UK highway schemes. 
• Detailed knowledge of DMRB GG 119 and related highway design standards. 
• Strong analytical and report-writing skills. 
• Experience of traffic signals, junction improvements, active travel schemes, and highway infrastructure projects. 

By registering your interest, you will:

• Be considered for future contract opportunities with BakerHicks
• Have the opportunity to engage directly with our hiring teams
• Join a carefully selected network of trusted contractors
• Be prioritised for opportunities ahead of wider market release

• Contract opportunities (Inside IR35 / PAYE engagement)
• Flexible working depending on project requirements (office/site/hybrid)
• Locations across the UK

Please submit your CV. Our Talent Acquisition team will review applications in collaboration with our discipline leads, following which we will arrange introductions where appropriate.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to security clearance or security assurance levels. The successful candidate must be able to obtain and maintain the appropriate level of security clearance or assurance level for this role, in line with client and sector requirements. In some cases, additional nationality or residency criteria may also apply due to specific client or national security obligations.

Further information on National security clearance levels can be found on the UK Government website: (National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK)