Senior Consultant, Highway and Traffic Engineering

**This role is open to Steer's Leeds, Manchester and London offices Contact us | Steer (steergroup.com)**

About Steer

We are Steer and we help people, places and economies thrive. Steer is a global employee-owned business consultancy specialising in transport, cities and infrastructure, with over 530 staff in 24 offices around the world.

We have an enduring commitment to generate success for our clients, for ourselves and for the communities which we support. A commitment that ultimately improves the way people live, work and travel.

At Steer UK, our consultants work to improve the outlook of our region, ensuring that our clients keep social and environmental impact in mind as they conduct their operations. We believe that actions speak louder than words, and therefore have annual measurable targets across all social impact areas, particularly DEI and sustainability. We have also committed to successfully operate as a Net Zero Carbon company by 2025, participating in the UN’s Global Compact.

For further information on Steer, please take a moment to review our website Steer | Helping people, places and economies thrive (steergroup.com)

About the role

Steer is seeking to further develop our design offer and are looking for a Highway & Transport practitioner to join our growing teams based in either London or Leeds to deliver a broad portfolio of work in this area.

This position will support our Development Planning & Design team who cover a wide range of projects for both public authority and private sector clients, including support on high-profile schemes including TfGM, Canary Wharf, Brent Cross Town, Warwick University, re-development of the US Embassy as well as acting as strategic advisors on the Champions League Final, UEFA and World Rugby.

You will be expected to work as part of an international team providing design advice and solutions to both private and public sector clients. This position requires an enthusiastic, hard-working person, who wants to be part of our growing dynamic teams based at our London / Leeds office.

We believe in empowering our people and giving them the opportunities to shine. Being an employee-owned company means that our people are dedicated and passionate about what they do, and it is the reason why we are at the forefront of our industry. We are always looking to find new colleagues that share these values.

Work-life balance 

At Steer, we believe that a healthy work-life balance is paramount to long term success, which is why all employees seeking a full-time opportunity are encouraged to spend 60% of their time either in office or on-site with clients and why we aim to keep our employee’s typical work week to 37.5 hours, reflective of client needs. Hours, expectations, and exemption status will be determined for any applicant seeking a part-time opportunity.  

Compensation 

Steer is committed to ensuring that all its employees are compensated a fairly and at a competitive rate. All initial compensation, regardless of location, may be subject to change as skills, abilities, internal equity and geographic location are taken into account. 

In addition to base salary, all employees will be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus. Please review the benefits section for more information on total reward. 

Steer reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional compensation. 

Requirements

Depending on grade, in this role you will be required to:

• Support our highway design advice offer across the company both in the UK and internationally.
• Lead work streams within projects, ensuring that best practice techniques are applied consistently.
• Deliver high quality highway and transportation advice as part of multi-disciplinary teams across a range of transport related projects including major developments, highway related regeneration projects and sustainable transport initiatives.
• Deliver excellent joined-up and high-profile transportation and highway projects in the UK, which contributes to the company’s reputation for delivering excellence.
• Manage multi-disciplinary projects, sub consultants and manage support staff assigned on a project basis as required.
• Take responsibility of key projects deliverables through project initiation, feasibility and preliminary and detailed designs.
• Prepare and present reports, proposals, briefing notes and design reports.
• Manage project budgets exercising effective financial and budgetary control.
• Contribute to the production and delivery of proposals and marketing materials related to our market area from time to time.

To be successful in the role, you will:

• Possess relevant experience in the design of highway and traffic engineering, ideally with experience of Section 38 / 278 agreements and Section 106 agreements. AutoCAD Skills would be desirable.
• Demonstrate strong analytical skills as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Be able to influence colleagues and clients through a balance of supportive and challenging behaviours.
• Comfortable working in creative multi-disciplinary teams with architects etc. and provide positive contributions in resolving complex design problems.
• Have professional and academic qualifications in transport engineering e.g. BEng or similar; and ideally be working towards Chartership, e.g. CEng.
• Take responsibility for key tasks and workstreams, successfully managing multiple deadlines in parallel.

Benefits

We offer a competitive package of benefits including private medical insurance and health screening, life assurance, group income protection, company pension scheme, Employee Assistance Program, ability to buy and sell annual leave days, Season Ticket Loan, a group Share Incentive Plan, up to 5 days for volunteering activities and a discretionary bonus scheme based on annual compensation (dependent upon individual and company performance).

Additionally, we offer 25 days annual leave, plus the 8 bank holidays and the ability to buy and sell leave in the year to give extra flexibility.

Steer is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all candidates regardless of race, color, ancestry, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, Veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Any other human expressions and experiences not mentioned here are equally welcome. If you require an accommodation, now or throughout your employment, please let us know.

In our commitment to inclusivity in the workplace, Steer has welcomed the creation of various Employee Resource Groups, dedicated to ensuring the support, progression, and well-being of all employees. For more information, check out our social responsibility page Our social responsibility | Steer (steergroup.com).

We understand that some may be dissuaded to apply based off their compatibility with the job description. That being said, we understand that not everyone is a perfect match on paper and encourage anyone to apply regardless of how much their work experience directly relates to the job description.

Part-time and flexible working applications will be considered.