Senior Engineer - Minor Works

About the Team

The Minor Works Team at Warwickshire County Highways offers a design & build service on a wide variety of traffic, road safety and parking schemes. The successful candidate will lead the design and delivery of highway schemes, providing support to the Minor Works Team Leader and Service Manager to deliver the programme of works. They will work in partnership with the locality team and term contractor to deliver schemes within agreed timescales, budgets and quality standards.

We work collaboratively with Local Members, Locality Teams, Design Services, Transport Planning, Development Management and our term contractors to deliver safe, effective and high quality improvements to the local highway network. Our schemes range from local safety and parking improvements to more complex projects, always ensuring road safety is embedded from concept to completion. As part of a supportive team, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering projects that benefit communities across Warwickshire.

About the Role

As a Minor Works Engineer, you will lead on the design, feasibility, costing and delivery of traffic, parking and highway maintenance schemes. You will act as a key technical advisor, working with a range of internal and external stakeholders including councillors, developers, partner agencies and members of the public.

You will independently manage projects and programmes of work, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget and to the highest quality and safety standards. The role also involves contributing to the production of Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs), supervising junior staff, and providing technical approval and road safety input on highway schemes.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with strong engineering expertise who can balance operational delivery with technical leadership, stakeholder engagement and problem solving

Key Requirements

• Full relevant professional qualification or substantial experience managing large projects at a senior level.
• Ability to interpret and analyse complex technical information and develop long term solutions.
• Skilled in communicating complex or contentious information to varied audiences.
• Experience using ICT systems relevant to Engineering/Transport Planning (e.g., CAD).
• Ability to work under high pressure, manage conflicting demands and meet unpredictable deadlines.
• Experience supervising less experienced team members and providing technical guidance.
• Experience monitoring, managing and being accountable for project budgets.
• Ability to influence and persuade stakeholders.

Desirable experience includes

• Understanding of highway engineering specifications, materials and procedures, including TRO processes.
• Knowledge of relevant highway legislation, CDM requirements and design standards.
• Experience with accident analysis and undertaking Road Safety Audits.
• Familiarity with legal processes for parking and traffic calming schemes.
• Full UK driving licence and ability to travel throughout Warwickshire.

Additional Information

The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice accurately spoken English to the public.

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If you are applying for this role on a secondment basis please ensure you have permission from your line manager.

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Closing date: 30th March 2026
Interview date: TBC

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