Highways Engineer

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A little more about your role…

As an Associate or Associate Director based out of our Manchester office, you will provide technical leadership to our design teams and will use your knowledge and skills to deliver the right quality to time and budget. You will use those attributes to lead design teams and to mentor and support junior team members.

In this role your responsibilities will include:

• Technical leadership of a variety of civil engineering and highway design projects both in the UK and overseas
• Act as a Project Manager on a wide range of projects, undertaking project reviews to optimise solutions and co-ordinate multi-disciplinary inputs
• Managing resources at project level and managing people within the local team
• Agreeing fees and managing the commercial position on projects
• Leading a culture of technical review and challenge
• Developing client relationships and helping them to achieve sustainable goals and future proof developments 
• Leading and contributing to tenders/ bids
• Supervision and mentoring of junior members of the team
• Support our lead for the Region and local Office Place Lead, along with the wider Development team and WSP with leadership & business development 
• Work collaboratively with the Development team and our colleagues in the wider Planning and Development team and the wider WSP business to achieve our aims and objectives. 

The Development Team is a well-established and high performing part of the Planning and Development discipline which includes over 800 colleagues focused on project delivery through the whole project life cycle, from initial land acquisition, planning support and design, through to scheme implementation and handover.

Our vision is to be recognised as the best Development team in the industry. We strive to achieve this through continuous improvement and a management structure comprising of four pillars, namely; Technical Excellence, People, Clients and Operational Excellence.

We help our clients to promote, implement and manage sustainable development, from pre-feasibility through to planning consent; establish plans and provision for how an area, its accessibility, and needs, will develop over time and guide sustainable future development; and develop multi-disciplinary design from concept through to detailed design and construction.