Principal Roads Engineer

Atkins Realis Group

Responsibilities:

• Involvement with preparation of reports, designs, specifications and contract documents.
• Review designs produced and verify completeness to technical and Atkins standards.
• Liaising with other engineers/technicians to ensure updates to technical standards are maintained and disseminated to the team.
• Ensure that design briefs are completed satisfactorily.
• Promote and incorporate sustainable design wherever possible.
• Promote and improve inter-discipline working with other disciplines.
• Monitor emerging legislation and engineering standards relating to highways design and ensure their implementation.
• Carry out independent and multi-disciplinary design reviews.
• Supervise the preparation of contract documents.
• Prepares cost and man-hour estimates, job budgets and schedules.
• Prepare Technical and Commercial Proposals.
• Liaise with clients, Authorities, contractors, suppliers, sub contractors and other design engineers.
• Provide technical input and supervise technical input of others within the highways discipline.
• Operate to the Quality Assurance system, quality control and document management in line with current policy.
• Identify and meet effectively the requirements and expectations of clients.

Requirements:

• Degree in Civil Engineering.
• Similar experience of minimum 15 years working in a design consultancy, with experience of concept, scheme and detail design across a range of sectors.
• Experience with design of junctions, roundabouts and grade separated interchanges.
• Experience of working to QA procedures.
• Membership of a Professional Engineering Institution.
• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English, able to inspire, influence and negotiate
• In depth and up to date knowledge of Highways Design.
• Technical input into Optioneering, scoping, feasibility studies, outline and detailed design projects.
• Experienced in design risk assessments and familiar with relevant HSE legislation
• Integrate well and see beyond the standard approach to design delivery.
• Knowledge of BIM, Civil 3d and autocad.
• Good understanding of the regional and international standards related to highways design.
• A good understanding of quality assurance, safety, environmental and sustainability.
• Able to make decisions, act on own initiative and operate in a pro-active way.
• A degree of financial awareness and an ability to develop this skill further as required.
• Ability to manage projects, good ability to build up and maintain client and team relationships.
• Effective team worker, contributing to the team and wider objectives.
• Excellent report writing skills, experience of making presentations and attending meetings with clients.
• Be able to logically analyse problems from first principles to determine solutions.
• Able to manage own workload and assist more junior members of the team.
• Technically capable and willing to assist less experienced members of the team.