Associate Highway Engineer

Our client has a burgeoning workload in the highway sector, they have an opportunity offering meaningful and well rewarded change. If you are a chartered or incorporated engineer with a highways maintenance background this intriguing new career path will offer a refreshing and intriguing way to apply your expertise. Your work will be varied and span national highways and local authority highways. Our client is a leading international player and an excellent employer providing generous terms and conditions of employment. The position calls for an engineer with knowledge and experience of highway maintenance processes and procedures.

The Company: An international forensic investigations consultancy admired for their civil and structural expertise. They are a successful business operating in a consistent, high margin profession and a leading authority in their subject areas, employing over one hundred experts drawn directly from industry. They are appointed by legal firms, insurers, loss adjusters, local authorities, government agencies and client organisations to discover the root cause of failures and defects. Their findings are used to settle claims, litigation cases and as a catalyst for change and improvement.

Your role: Using your background in highway engineering you will investigate a range of faults and failures affecting highways, roads and associated highway infrastructure. Site based forensic investigations are typically once per week but intervals will vary. You will use your lateral thinking skills combined with your industry background to determine the root cause of problems and what is to blame. Extensive technical backup is on hand from in-house civil, geotechnical and materials experts. The end product of your work will be a report setting out your findings. Their highways and civil engineering business is in strong demand, there will be opportunities to progress as the business grows.

Your Profile: A chartered or incorporated  member of the ICE, CIHT or equivalent. Ten plus years of highways experience gained with a consulting practice, contractor or local authority, this should have a focus on managing and delivering maintenance / reconstruction projects. Good communication skills are essential, especially the ability to prepare well written reports.

Training: Your industry experience will have furnished you with most of the knowledge required, on the job training in some of the more specialist forensic investigation methods will be provided. Once established you will have the opportunity to become an expert witness, an external training course is provided to help you prepare for this.