Highways Engineer

At Amentum, we're not just solving problems; we're engineering the future. Our team is driven by an unyielding commitment to innovation, integrity, and collaboration, tackling some of the most significant challenges in science, security, and sustainability. If you're passionate about making a real impact and want to be part of a community that values ethical excellence, this is the place where your ambition can thrive.

Here, we believe that success comes from continuously pushing boundaries and working together to deliver on our promises. We embrace challenges with confidence and are dedicated to creating a secure and vibrant future for all.

We’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for us. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part‑time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

Amentum is the Design and Engineering partner for Sellafield under the PPP (Programme and Project Partners). This is a 20‑year arrangement to deliver ~£7bn of major projects. We are looking to recruit high‑value expertise from across regulated and comparable sectors to work in a collaborative environment. PPP is delivering major projects, site‑wide improvements and provision of supporting services.

The Sellafield Product and Residue Store Retreatment Plant (SRP), being delivered by the Programme and Project Partners (PPP), will safely receive all special nuclear material packages from existing storage locations across the Sellafield site before retreating them into new 100‑year packages for safe storage. The SRP facility will enable all special nuclear material to remain safe and secure in its store into the next century and beyond and therefore plays a key role in delivering Sellafield’s purpose to create a clean and safe environment for future generations.

We are now recruiting for a Highways Engineer to support the team in Cumbria. As a Highways Engineer, your duties could include:

• Being responsible for day‑to‑day management of civil designers and support the Civil Lead in planning and delivery of work. Includes reporting on progress in terms of time and costs.
• Undertake the civil design of all highways and external finishing.
• Lead the civil designers to develop the 3D model and produce 2D AutoCAD GA and detail drawings.
• Write specifications for Highways, earthworks and external finishing as the design progresses through Preliminary and Detailed Design.
• Attend and input to Design Review meetings as required.
• Fulfil the Designer role under the CDM (2015) Regulations.

As a Highways Engineer, you will already have:

• A Civil Engineering degree and ideally be a Chartered Engineer or local equivalent.
• Have in-depth experience in all aspects of highways and external finishing design including concrete hard standing.
• Experience in using civil design software – ideally Civils 3D and 2D AutoCAD. Familiar with BIM.
• Ideally have some nuclear experience but if not, in a similar industrial field.
• Experience managing design resources, planning and managing delivery, chairing meetings, managing stakeholders or a desire to expand into this area.
• Comfortable working in multi‑disciplinary teams.
• Experience in design for UK highways / external works schemes. Ideally familiar with relevant UK codes / Eurocodes where applicable, UK regulations e.g. CDM (2015), and DMRB and MCHW.

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