Lead Senior Engineer

Overview

Lead Senior Engineer Amey are a leading provider of full life-cycle engineering, operations and decarbonisation solutions, for transport infrastructure and complex facilities.

Title:

Lead Senior Engineer

Requisition

Working for us, you’ll be delivering sustainable infrastructure solutions that enhance life and protect our shared future. Our people are driven by a set of strong values, based on safety, insight and collaboration.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a permanent Lead
Senior Engineer to join our Consulting Highways team. This is a hybrid position and with office space in Birmingham
, we welcome applications from candidates across the region.

The following frameworks enable Amey to deliver high-quality, innovative, and sustainable engineering solutions across the Midlands. They also provide opportunities for personal and professional development across long-term, high-value projects or smaller, community-focused initiatives.

Midlands Highway Alliance (MHA):
This framework enables us to collaborate directly with 21 local authorities, delivering essential highway infrastructure and maintenance projects. The contract encompasses a variety of tasks, from routine maintenance and upgrades to innovative highway design solutions. The scale and diversity provide opportunities to work on civil engineering challenges in highway design, management, and construction.

Scheme Delivery Framework (SDF):
Managed in collaboration with Highways England, the SDF covers highways, bridges, and related civil engineering projects. You will work on major and minor schemes, contributing to the delivery of projects that enhance the built environment. The SDF emphasizes sustainable, efficient solutions and the use of cutting-edge technologies and methods to meet high standards of quality, safety, and sustainability.

Staffordshire Infrastructure Plus
:
Our partnership with Staffordshire County Council under this long-term contract has delivered over £100m worth of major transport infrastructure projects, created over 12,000 jobs and 10,000 homes, and supported regional growth and development.

These frameworks allow Amey to deliver high-quality, innovative, and sustainable engineering solutions across the Midlands and provide opportunities for development and influence over regional infrastructure.

Our Lead Senior Civil Engineers play an important part within the Design team and alongside our client, National Highways. As a Lead Senior Civil Engineer, you will provide effective support and assistance to your Design Team Leader on a variety of road schemes whilst taking the lead on projects and mentoring junior designers.

• To lead a team to produce technically sound engineering solutions, complying with all relevant technical standards and client requirements
• The preparation and checking of designs, calculations, drawings and documentation as part of the production of scheme deliverables that satisfy the overarching criteria of quality, cost and programme
• Overseeing the actions of more junior members of staff undertaking similar tasks and taking responsibility for their actions
• Responsibility for the commercial success of the projects within their portfolio, controlling budgets and managing the costs associated with the production of deliverables
• Liaising with client and supplier representatives at peer level, attending progress meetings, responding to queries etc.
• Significantly contributing to the preparation of bids and the general work winning function
• Drive effective health and safety practices within the team

• Developed experience and expertise within the relevant technical field, probably gained in a Senior Engineer role or equivalent
• Able to produce technically sound engineering solutions, complying with all relevant technical standards and client requirements, working unsupervised and supervising more junior members of staff undertaking similar tasks
• Experienced in undertaking project related tasks associated with the management of health, safety and welfare, e.g. Amey’s Integrated Management System and the Construction (Design…