Senior Highway Technician/Engineer
Bristol 

£42,000 – £50,000

A growing consultancy is seeking an experienced Senior Highway Technician or Engineer to strengthen its Bristol office, delivering residential and commercial developments nationwide.

You’ll join a friendly team of experienced engineers and work on projects from the earliest planning stages right through to construction. If you already have a strong foundation in highway and estate road design and want more responsibility, this is a role where you can make that step.

The Role

Your work will begin with design proposals that support planning applications, then move through detailed design and into construction. Within a supportive, expanding team, you’ll put your technical skills to use on a wide variety of schemes and keep developing your career as you go.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce highway and access design proposals to support planning applications
• Take schemes from concept through detailed design and on to construction
• Prepare and submit S278 and S38 applications to the relevant authorities for technical approval
• Create highway alignment designs, pavement build-ups and kerbing layouts
• Design junctions and roundabouts
• Produce road sign and line designs
• Draft clear, well-argued exception report responses to Road Safety Audits and S38 reviews

About You

• 4+ years’ experience working in the industry
• Hands-on experience of S278 highway and access design
• Highway alignment design using Causeway PDS
• Pavement design, covering build-ups and kerbing layouts
• Junction and roundabout design
• Experience of preparing S278 and S38 technical approval submissions
• Road sign and line design
• Confidence responding to RSAs and S38 reviews with exception reports

What’s on Offer

• £42,000 – £50,000 per annum
• A permanent role within a growing, established team
• Varied residential and commercial projects across the UK
• Hybrid working
• 37.5-hour week
• Real opportunity to grow your design responsibility and progress your career
• Become part of a SME that values your work and promotes independence as well as taking responsibility of projects

If you’re a Senior Highway Technician or Engineer ready for a new challenge with a business that invests in its people, get in touch with Callum at callum.jones@aztrum.com