Senior or Principal Traffic Engineer, Glasgow or Edinburgh

4 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom Jacobs Full time
Your Impact:

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs' greatest asset and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We're happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About The Opportunity

Transport Planning & Mobility Solutions at Jacobs is one of the most successful teams of its nature in the UK and Ireland, with a varied client base, strong local pipeline of work and offers support delivery to project teams across the globe. Our local team is involved in a range of exciting and innovative projects covering all elements of transport planning including traffic engineering, traffic modelling, economic appraisal, active modes, public transport, policy & strategy formation and business case development. Currently, Jacobs has a wide variety of active travel and urban design projects across Scotland, the wider UK and Ireland.

We are looking for an experienced Senior / Principal Traffic Engineer to complement our growing team in Scotland. You will ideally have experience in active travel and urban street design with detailed knowledge of the appropriate design guidance and standards, such as Cycling by Design and DMRB. You will also preferably have experience in design stage feasibility and undertaking concept and detailed design.

You will be based in either our Glasgow or Edinburgh offices where you will work on local projects, whilst also interacting with our colleagues across the UK, Ireland and globally.

Our local teams get involved in a range of exciting and innovative projects covering active travel, streets design, traffic engineering and local junction design / modelling. We are particularly interested in candidates who can wish to develop and expand their experience of the progression of active travel and mass transit, transformational placemaking and traffic management solutions.

You will have the support of a line manager and our experts to guide your progress.. This role will allow you to pursue relevant business and technical training to support your career development as well as the freedom to grow your network and develop innovative solutions to chase new opportunities.

Here's What You'll Need:

To be degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline

Extensive experience in the traffic engineering field with the ability to contribute to the success of a range of high profile transport projects

Experience in traffic engineering in an urban environment with particular experience in cycle priority and traffic signal design desirable

Experience in applying design standards, that may include the Designing Streets, Design Manual for Roads and Bridges, Cycling by Design or local authority street design guidance

Technical aptitude and experience in design and modelling software packages particularly AutoCad and LinSig

To be able to competently liaise and communicate with clients

To be able to manage tasks using appropriate programme, budget and quality controls

Have achieved or be working towards a relevant professional accreditation e.g. CEng or CTPP

If you don't meet every requirement of the job and / or your experience doesn't align perfectly with the criteria we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be the right candidate for this role or for other roles with Jacobs. We are committed to building a diverse & inclusive workplace.

Our success depends on having a diverse team of visionaries, thinkers and doers who collaborate to harness all perspectives to make a positive impact.

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we're more connected, and if we are diverse, we're more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women's. Find out more about our employee networks here.

Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.

If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team .

Your application experience is important to us and we're keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and if you need more from us before deciding to join Jacobs then please let us know.

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