Senior Highways & Traffic Engineer
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Lead the Way in Sustainable Transport – Join AECOM as a Senior Highways & Traffic Engineer in Cardiff
AECOM’s Cardiff-based Streets team is looking for a Senior Engineer to deliver innovative Active Travel, local highways and urban realm projects across South Wales and beyond. This role offers the opportunity to shape safer, greener, and more inclusive transport networks that have a tangible impact on communities.
What You’ll Be Doing
As a Senior Engineer, you’ll take a key role in the development of Active Travel, traffic engineering and local highways schemes, from concept through to detailed design and implementation. You’ll bring your technical expertise and ability to guide project teams through all stages of design and delivery. You’ll manage technical outputs, mentor junior staff, and ensure the successful delivery of high-quality, sustainable transport solutions.
As a senior member of our collaborative, multidisciplinary team, you’ll work on high-profile projects for local authority clients such as the Cardiff Council, Swansea Council, Newport and Neath Port Talbot Council, and key regional frameworks including SWTRA, SW&M Wales CES and SEWTAPS .
Key Responsibilities:
Coordinate the design and its delivery, under the guide of the Design Lead and Project Manager.
Support the management of project timelines, risks, budgets, and deliverables.
Prepare and review technical outputs including drawings, reports, and specifications, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and constructability.
Liaise with the Client and external stakeholders
Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across AECOM
Mentor junior staff, providing technical guidance and supporting their professional development.
Champion Health & Safety best practices.
What we offer:
Flexible hybrid working and varied working patterns (part-time, compressed weeks, or flexible hours).
Professional development support, mentorship schemes, and training agreements with major engineering institutions.
Career development opportunities via AECOM University, technical practice networks, and volunteering days.
A range of core and personalised benefits tailored to your lifestyle and well-being.
Come grow with us.
At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!
Qualifications
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
Here’s what we’re looking for:
Experience in concept, preliminary, and detailed design of Active Travel and highways or traffic engineering schemes.
Experience in coordinating or assisting in the management of design projects.
Strong knowledge of design elements such as drainage, junctions, and carriageway improvements.
Familiarity with relevant design standards and guidance, including TSRGD, Manual for Streets, DMRB, and the Traffic Signs Manual.
Understanding of Health & Safety and CDM regulations.
Proficiency in AutoCAD and Microsoft Office.
A degree in Civil Engineering or a related discipline.
Additional Information
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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Siobhan Osborne
About AECOM
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
ReqID: J10132283
Business Line: Transportation
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India
Career Area: Engineering
Work Location Model: Hybrid
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