Senior Highways Engineer

7 days ago


Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom Penguin Recruitment Ltd Full time

**SENIOR HIGHWAYS ENGINEER**

An excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior Highways Engineer to join our clients' Infrastructure team in Newcastle upon Tyne.

A Senior Highways Engineer is an important operational and career development position in their organisation with key responsibilities to contribute to the development and implementation of projects and programmes of work whilst undertaking a range of technicalaspects required for project delivery including feasibility, concept design including buildability and value engineering, detailed design, preparation of tender and contract documentation, invitation of tenders and supervision of construction works on siteas part of a team.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Arranging the procurement of highway improvement works through competitive tendering.
- Preparing schemes for tender using the NEC3 family of Forms of Contract, Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works including use of Specification for Highway Works and the Standard Method of Measurement.
- Undertaking feasibility studies including preparing reports, cost estimates, investigating problems, and identifying of options.
- Supervising and monitoring works on site, making valuations for payment assessments, chairing and managing progress meetings, identification and assessment of additional payments due to variation orders

**What we're looking for**:

- Extensive post qualification experience in the design, implementation and supervision of all aspects of highways and civil engineering design and construction.
- An extensive knowledge and understanding of the relevant legislation, standards and procedures. A working knowledge of standard highway and civil engineering specifications, conditions of contract and methods of measurement.
- Working knowledge of the relevant legislation and guidelines including the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges, British and European Standards, Eurocodes and Codes of Practice.

**What's in it for you?**
- A competitive basic salary.
- 25 days' holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave.
- The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for charity partners or a cause of your choice.
- Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks and plenty more.
- Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology.
- Access to the Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allows colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform.

**HOW TO APPLY**

If you are interested in this opportunity, please click on the link to apply.

If you are interested in hearing about other roles in Civil and Structural Engineering, then please do not hesitate to contact Martin Boland now at or call. We have many more vacancies available on our website. This is a permanent role. Penguin Recruitmentis operating as a Recruitment Agency in respect to this position.



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