Job Description

It is fair to say that this is a unique organisation in many ways; they describe themselves as being a disorganised workers cooperative, they are described by others as one of the premier design consultancies in the world and by their staff as a great place to work.

With over 70 offices in 32 countries and over 7000 members of staff they have a truly international presence operating in all fields of construction design including city centre master planning, highways, bridges, geotechnical, geoenvironmental, rail and building services.

Their Highways Team in Leeds focuses on large scale, technically challenging design schemes. Recent and current schemes include:

- £200m - A1 DBFO
- M25 DBFO
- £80m - A5036 Port of Liverpool Access

Confident of being able to offer excellent project experience they compliment this with a market leading benefits package which includes:

- Profit Share Scheme
- Private Health Scheme
- Life Assurance
- Accident Insurance
- Pension (final salary or money purchase)

A Highways Team Leader is required to join the team in Leeds and take on responsibility for co-ordinating highways design schemes. Reporting to an Associate Director your main responsibilities will involve acting as a main point of contact with your client and undertaking business development activities and financial and resource monitoring for the group. You will assume full project management responsibility including technical, financial and resource issues and will oversee the completion of necessary technical reports and feasibility studies.

As a Highways Team Leader you will provide guidance to technicians, graduates and recently chartered engineers in the design of alignments, drainage, pavement and associated highways works. It will be your responsibility to produce, approve and issue specifications, drawings and contract documents based on HA or local authority standards.

Qualifications/Skills Required

The role of Highways Team Leader requires a professionally qualified Engineer (CEng / IEng) with extensive experience in a broad range of highways design schemes, in particular large scale projects. The successful candidate for this role will be technically sound, capable of leading a team and comfortable managing a wide portfolio of highways design schemes.

You are likely to have had previous experience managing the financial aspect of projects and will be totally client focused in your approach to engineering.