Highway Design Engineer

The salary range for this role is £29,291 to £40,146 per annum for working 36 hours per week. Your starting salary will be dependent on your existing skills, qualifications, and experience.

Surrey County Council's Highways and Transport Service is responsible for managing, maintaining and improving Surrey's road network. This includes 3,000 miles of carriageways, 1,800 bridges, 3,300 miles of footway, and over 600 sets of traffic lights. Our total annual budget is over £150,000,000 - a combination of revenue and capital funding.

As a Highway Design Engineer, you will be involved with the design and delivery of highways improvement projects ranging from minor speed limit changes all the way up to multi-million-pound corridor improvement schemes.

You will join the Highway Schemes Design Team, a group of designers, project managers and implementation engineers who work in partnership with both internal teams (who commission us to design and deliver their projects) and our term contractors (who construct improvements on site).

We have a dynamic and collaborative team culture where hard work, innovation and creativity are celebrated. We value our team members and strive to support each other in achieving our goals, while also promoting a culture of continuous learning and growth. We enjoy spending time together at team events held throughout the year including our annual Christmas meal that carries on late into the evening!

Professional Development Programme

The role sits within our Professional Development Programme (PDP) and spans three linked grades within our pay grade structure (PS7HT to PS9). Reporting to a Principal Design Engineer, you will participate in a formal training development plan to increase your expertise and attain technical and professional qualifications. Salary progression is linked to progress through the formal training plan.

Work Location

We have embraced hybrid working and though you will be required to spend two days a week at our office in Merrow, you will have the opportunity to choose where to work from for the remaining days. We want to provide individuals with flexibility in where and when work is carried out while continuing to ensure the needs and aims of the team are met.

About You

This role is ideal for someone with some experience of the relevant principles, practices, and procedures in highway design.

To be considered for shortlisting, your application will clearly evidence the following.

• Your experience of successfully designing and implementing a range of highway improvement schemes, or of assisting in the design and implementation of such schemes.
• Your design engineering capability, including experience of using AutoCAD and any relevant highway design packages.
• Knowledge of engineering design related legislation, practices, and procedures.
• Your relevant industry qualifications plus any membership with any professional bodies. To be considered for this role you must be eligible to be accepted onto an HNC Civil Engineering course or will already have achieved HNC or above qualification in Civil Engineering.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Full, clean driving licence. The role requires the ability to work and travel across the County, and there may also be the need for occasional weekend and evening work.

At interview stage, shortlisted candidates will be asked about projects they have been involved with and how they ensured these were delivered to deadline, met quality and contract requirements, and maintained best practice standards.

If you have experience in highway design and are looking for an opportunity to develop your skills while working towards a professional qualification, please click the apply button below! We would also welcome a conversation with you should you have any questions about the role or assessment process.

Additional Information

This job advert will close at 23:59 on 26/03/2023. However, applications will be assessed and shortlisted on a regular basis with interviews held throughout the period so this job advert will close earlier if the vacancy is filled.

Please note, we are not accepting applications through agencies and ask that applicants apply directly via our website.

Benefits

From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. A laptop and mobile will be supplied if applicable to your role. You will benefit from 26 days' annual leave, rising to 28 days after 2 years' service, a generous local government salary related pension, as well as the option to join our car lease scheme. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit MyBenefits for Surrey County Council staff.

Our Commitment

Surrey County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer of first choice reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all under represented groups.