Senior Highways Engineer (Major Projects Team, Highways)

Newham is an ambitious borough committed to putting people at the heart of everything we do. Highways, Sustainable Transport and Parking Services are universal front facing services that all of our residents and visitors interact with. Therefore, it is vital that we strengthen these services and make them as responsive to our residents’ needs as possible. The Senior Highways Engineer role is key to enabling us to achieve this goal, working in a team of professionals delivering major projects for the borough.

Highway improvement projects are scattered around the borough, some of the projects include works within the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Royal Docks and Canning Town area. These are multimillion pounds in value and Newham will be delivering these projects over the coming years.

The post-holder will need to support Senior Project Manager to help the delivery of the projects and work with a team of professionals. It is expected the suitable candidate to be strong in highway design using AutoCAD and other relevant software and experience in level design. The postholder is expected to visit site as and when required to manage works on site and deal with contractors.

The post-holder is expected to take responsibility of assigned major highway projects from inception to delivery on-site and post-scheme monitoring process. This will involve managing day-to-day running and decision-making on key stages with internal and external stakeholders on various elements of the project. Also, this will involve working with both internal and external project team members, as well as managing staff and elements of the projects at the various stages of their delivery.

The post holder should be suitably experienced, hold a relevant degree in the highways design/ civil engineering field. Typically, this would suit a graduate with 5+ years’ experience. 

This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience working on projects from preliminary design through to implementation of the scheme on site and managing junior staff, supervision of site and external contractors / consultants on a day-to-day basis. Working as part of the design team and the delivery team and will give the post holder all-round experience of a delivery of a highways project in the urban realm. 

How to apply

Please see further details at Newham’s Website and complete the online application, CV's will not be accepted.