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CLOSING DATE: Mid-night Sunday 7 th September 2025Job Description

Senior Highways Engineer (Major Projects Team, Highways)

£45,750 - £49,056 per annum

CLOSING DATE: Mid-night Sunday 7 th September 2025

INTERVIEWS: 10 th September 2025

Newham is an ambitious borough committed to putting people at the heart of everything we do. Highways, Sustainable Transport and Parking Services are universal front facing services that all of our residents and visitors interact with. Therefore, it is vital that we strengthen these services and make them as responsive to our residents needs as possible. The Senior Highways Engineer role is key to enabling us to achieve this goal, working in a team of professionals delivering major projects for the borough.

Some of the Highway Improvement projects include Pool Street, Westfield Avenue, Royal Docks Corridor and Carpenters Road West. Highway improvements on Westfield Avenue and surrounding roads aiming to improve road layout within the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which is multimillion pounds in value and Newham will be delivering these projects over the coming years.

The post-holder will need to support Senior Project Manager to help the delivery of the projects and managing a team of professionals. The post holder should be suitably experienced, hold a relevant degree in the highways design/ civil engineering field. Typically, this would suit a graduate with 5+ years experience.

This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience working on projects from preliminary design through to implementation of the scheme on site and managing junior staff, supervision of site and external contractors / consultants on a day-to-day basis. Working as part of the design team and the delivery team and will give the post holder all-round experience of a delivery of a highways project in the urban realm.

How To Apply

Please see further details at Newhams Website and complete the online application, CV''s will not be accepted.

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Closing date: 7th September 2025

Additional Information

We are committed to creating an inclusive, anti-racist environment for all. When you apply for a job at Newham, your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity or sexual orientation. If you share our vision and values, and you bring the experience and skills we need, thats all that matters to us.

The London Borough of Newham has important responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. If you are appointed to a job that involves working with these groups, you may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Please attach your supporting statement, explaining in no more than x2 A4 sides why and how you meet the criteria for this role.

We practice anonymised recruitment. Please ensure that you remove all personal information from any documents that you upload.

The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn .

About Us

The London Borough of Newham is located only 5 miles east of London. It is well positioned with access to all major networks in London and the south east. It is well connected by public transport with, bus, tube and DLR. When the Crossrail service opens it will call at Custom House close to our council offices and also Stratford station and from there to central London. The London City Airport which serves major European cities is located at Royal Albert Dock. Newham has the youngest overall population in the country. It was one of the six host boroughs for the 2012 Summer Olympics and contains most of the Olympic Park including the London Stadium. It has a thriving arts quarter with the Theatre Royal Stratford East offering excellent entertainment for all the family. There is the University of East London which has two campuses in Newham, one in Stratford and another next to the regenerated Royal Albert Dock. It also has a large Westfield shopping Centre in Stratford which has all the major retailers there.

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