Senior Traffic Engineer

Senior Traffic Engineer - St Albans

An expanding client of mine is looking to grow their ever busy Traffic department and now have a vacancy for a Senior Traffic/ Highway Engineer in St Albans. They would consider the role on either a full or part-time basis and are happy to look at a range of different working patterns.

The Traffic and Local Roads team provides concept, preliminary and detailed design and network modelling on a wide range of projects for local authorities and contractors plus supports other business lines where their projects have a specialised traffic and highways interface.

You will be joining a growing team that is actively involved in the delivery of projects and services to a range of both local and national clients including:

• Transport for London
• London Highway Alliance Contract (North-West and Central London)
• Southwark Highways & Professional Services Contract
• Midlands Highways Alliance

Key Responsibilities:

• Undertake Health & Safety duties including ensuring a safe and consistent working environment for team members and fulfilling all responsibilities for safety, health and environment in design.
• Act as a Task Manager, providing appropriate deliverables for the scheme project manager for large commissions and project leading your own small schemes and commissions;
• Handle the career progression of line reports including mentoring and agreeing individual training plans.
• Mentorship to the design and assessment of a range of traffic engineering and local transport schemes, including preparation of design drawings, reports and technical notes.
• Ensure the technical content and quality of all outputs are in line with the project brief, design regulations and standards, approving the work of others.
• Share knowledge to ensure the wider team are up to date with current standard methodology, techniques and innovation.
• Support Senior Management of Local Roads team including with recruitment.
• Input into detailed client briefs and fee proposals and contribute to major bids.

Minimum Requirements

• A successful track record in the detailed design stages and delivery of a portfolio of traffic engineering and local transport schemes,
• Experience of monitoring financial and programme performance,
• Multi-disciplinary project experience as task leader,
• Good technical and social skills,
• Ability to demonstrate understanding and application of relevant design standards and regulations.
• Whilst not essential the following skills would be desirable:
• Specialist traffic engineering knowledge,
• Appreciation of traffic modelling,
• 3D Design (MX or Civils 3D)
• Urban Design/Streetscape,
• Project Management qualifications (e.g. PRINCE2)
• Highways asset management and maintenance,
• CSCS Card holder.

We look forward to receiving your application. For further information, then please contact Barrie Dempster at ALLEN & YORK LTD on 01202 888986 or email bdempster@allen-york.com