Design Engineer

Location

Ipswich, Suffolk | United Kingdom

Job description

Design Engineer

28 days' annual leave plus 8 days' bank holiday

Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Employee discount platform

Group wide career opportunities

Milestone Infrastructure is currently looking to recruit a Highway Design Engineer to work on our Suffolk Highways contract in Ipswich.

As a Highway Design Engineer you will be part of our highway design team who are responsible for producing design solutions to maintain and improve highway infrastructure in Suffolk.

Milestone Infrastructure has been awarded Suffolk’s new highways services contract, which will begin on 1 October 2023 and run for up to 20 years. The contract will deliver highways projects and improvements across Suffolk in addition to highway maintenance activities.

As the Highways Design Engineer your duties & responsibilities will be:

• Produce design packages, reports and other deliverables to achieve project outcomes;
• Organise and undertake site visits and surveys
• Deliver successful projects to agreed time and cost expectations whilst ensuring work is undertaken in compliance with internal quality standards and processes;
• Ensure work is undertaken in compliance with Health & Safety and Environmental legislation
• Resource planning and co-ordination of multi disciplinary teams, including sub consultants;
• Staff and people management including training and development and staff performance reviews;
• Working collaboratively with customers to understand and develop project objectives and deliverables;
• Managing, building and developing customer relationships.

Skills & Knowledge Requirements

• Incorporated Engineer or highly experienced engineer working towards IEng / CEng;
• Design and construction experience in the highways sector
• A commercial awareness in the delivery of projects 
• Awareness / experience of Local Highway Authority standards
• Evidence of developing assistant engineers, graduates and technicians
• Working knowledge of programming tools such as ASTA
• Evidence of managing Health & Safety & Environment in design and construction
• Working knowledge of AutoCAD and other design software including for drainage, alignment and traffic signs desirable. 
• Computer literate particularly with packages such as Microsoft Excel and Word
• UK/EEC driving licence

This excellent opportunity is the chance to be working for an organisation leading the way in reducing carbon emissions, driving a circular economy approach, and increasing biodiversity. Milestone have numerous industry accolades, including the Environmental Sustainability and Special Merit Award at The Highways Awards. Constantly evolving and meeting the ambitions of its clients across the UK. Milestone are also leading on the world’s first carbon negative highways infrastructure project.

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