Highways Design & Development Lead 

Are you ready to take up a vital role in shaping some of our exciting projects? How about joining our talented team, where everyone has a voice, and together we face our clients' problems head-on. It's a diverse and inclusive work environment where world-class talent knows no distinctions.

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As a Highways Engineer in our Transportation team, you'll be pivotal in implementing ideas that shape the future of how we move. We work on a large variety of significant and challenging UK projects, such as Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route, A14 Cambridge-Huntingdon, and Human Drive. You'll feel a great sense of pride in shaping high-quality civil and structural designs across new build, renewal, maintenance, and assessment works. Collaborate with national and international design teams, using your insight and leadership to generate positive, sustainable impacts on society and the environment.

Your Purpose

• You will be a leader in highways design and engineering, who leads and takes ownership for design delivery and defining and winning projects or packages.
• You'll develop opportunities for securing, leading and delivering significant highway and active travel infrastructure that meet client ambitions and exceed their expectations, drawing on both engineering and commercial skills.
• You’ll build and lead teams to create lean and innovative highways designs, using your excellent analytical skills to solve engineering problems and applying your engineering judgement to appraise and recommend options and to check and review deliverables.
• You’ll stay abreast of industry developments and changes in standards; maintaining and developing excellent professional relationships with clients, preparing fee offers and presenting to internal and external stakeholders.
• You’ll build great client relationships, understanding and developing their needs and developing scopes, leading pricing, programming and taking responsibility for coordinating and delivering proposals as project or framework manager.
• You’ll lead highway design delivery in accordance with the Atkins Business Management System and complying with quality, safety and environmental standards; overseeing the production of design documentation for highway schemes, including sketches, drawings, calculations, reports and specifications to programme and budget.
• You’ll work collaboratively across the Atkins business and with our partner organisations and contribute to pastoral care and development of more junior staff by technical training and mentoring.

  What you can bring

• BEng / MEng or MSc degree in civil engineering or equivalent.
• Incorporated or Chartered status and membership of the ICE, CIHT or APM.
• Experience of working with our key clients, e.g. Local Authorities, Highways England, Developers and/or Contractors. Experience of leadership within D&B contracts would be a particular advantage.
• Able to demonstrate excellent understanding of client needs and strong client relationships, for example in leading significant projects or frameworks.
• Able to demonstrate responsibility for leading highways design teams and / or packages.
• Able to demonstrate in-depth understanding of BIM, and its place in securing and delivering work for our clients.
• Able to demonstrate that you can derive design briefs and manage the internal technical supply chain across a range of project sizes, including setting budget, programme and quality tolerances.
• Able to demonstrate that you are a resourceful problem solver and excellent communicator with excellent market understanding.

  Why work for Atkins?

  Our Transportation teams are reinventing transport for a challenging yet exciting future. We're creating new ideas and smart solutions for cities, people and the environment. You'll be working alongside some of the top people in our industry, solving challenges that bring together traditional engineering and new technologies. As part of our organisation, you'll be in a privileged position, delivering what's right for governments and communities. You'll be helping us to improve our leading environmental performance while enabling others to do the same.

  Meeting your needs

  To help you get the most out of life in and outside of work, we offer employees "Total Reward." It's a package that can be tailored to your changing lifestyle, career and personal needs. You'll enjoy benefits such as partner discounts, leadership training, professional, accreditations, and career planning for any stage of your career.

  Making sure you're supported is important to us. So if you identify as having a disability, tell us ahead of your interview. And let's talk through any adjustments you might need.

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  More about us

  Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, is a leading global consultancy with over 80 years of design and engineering expertise. With us, you'll be surrounded by the skills, knowledge and support to help you succeed. Together, we can deliver projects which have a positive, sustainable impact on the world.

  Atkins, ranked as one of LinkedIn’s Top 25 Companies, where UK professionals want to work and stay once they join.

  Check out some of our recent, most exciting projects.

  Atkins recognise that there are many well qualified people who are looking to further their career, but who cannot commit to full time employment. We support flexible working arrangements and are interested to discuss how we can accommodate individual requirements.

  ATKINS, part of the SNC Lavalin Group, is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.

  This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary it will be discussed with you at interview.

  If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

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