Senior Traffic Engineer

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We're seeking a Senior Traffic Engineer to join our Highways Northamptonshire team in Brixworth. In this role, you'll collaborate with the Traffic Engineering team to deliver high-quality traffic engineering and road safety schemes for our clients, North Northamptonshire Council and West Northamptonshire Council.

Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea or air? Nor can we Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference. Supporting the movement of people, goods and equipment.

Location: Brixworth, Northamptonshire - travel to the office required with some remote working available

Hours: Permanent, Fulltime 37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Traffic Engineer, you'll develop innovative traffic engineering solutions while enjoying a supportive work environment that values work-life balance and professional growth.

Your day to day will include:

• Creating and delivering high quality traffic engineering and road safety solutions to specification, programme and budget
• Developing detailed AutoCAD drawings, bills of quantities, and pre-construction information with minimal supervision
• Preparing comprehensive engineering reports, feasibility studies and technical designs aligned with national standards
• Conducting road safety audits at team leader level and identifying engineering solutions through collision investigations
• Interpreting legislation, regulations and technical guidance to ensure all designs meet compliance requirements

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Traffic Engineer is great if you are:

• An Incorporated Engineer (or working towards IEng status) with Sector 12D T7 Traffic Management certification
• IOSH Managing Safety Certificate holder with ROSPA AIP training and experience analysing collision data
• Strong knowledge of national standards including Traffic Signs Manual and Traffic Signs Regulations & General Directions
• Proficiency with AutoCAD, Keysign, Keyline and AutoTrack software

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

• Job Description Senior Traffic Engineer November

• Location: Northampton

• Vacancy ID: 9123
• Background check: None
• Closing Date: 31 Dec 2025
• Flexible Working: Yes
  
  Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.

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