Highways Engineer

Overview

As a Highway Engineer in Stantec’s Scottish Roads and Highways team, you contribute to delivering a varied portfolio of highway projects within a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment. You shape and deliver practical, high-quality solutions for clients, balancing social benefits with environmental responsibility. You will mentor others, drive quality outcomes, and have clear opportunities for career progression. This role offers exposure to local authorities, design-and-build contractors, and large-scale programmes, with a focus on growth and sustainable transport.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• bonus schemes
• enhanced pension plan
• private medical insurance
• hybrid/flexible working
• professional development

Responsibilities

• Contribute to technical delivery of highways projects across all design stages
• Collaborate with clients to shape and influence highway schemes in the region
• Support delivery of projects with cross-UK teams on both large-scale and smaller commissions
• Ensure high standards of quality, safety, and consistency in project outputs
• Oversee and review the work of others to ensure technical excellence
• Lead, mentor and support junior engineers and apprentices to develop skills
• Take accountability for own work and promote best practice across the team

Key requirements

• Experience in highways infrastructure design across full project lifecycle (concept to delivery)
• Working knowledge of CDM and BIM processes
• Confidence applying road design standards and guidance
• Experience using Civil 3D (or similar design software)
• Commitment to delivering high-quality infrastructure design solutions
• Sound engineering principles, detail-oriented, pragmatic problem-solving
• Ambitious, forward-thinking with a commitment to professional development
• Willingness to share knowledge and mentor others

• collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams
• mentoring and teaching
• proactive learning and development
• Civil 3D (or similar design software)
• CDM and BIM processes
• road design standards and guidance

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