The Role

As a Senior Engineer in our Highway Development team, you will be at the heart of our response to new developments across the borough. You’ll manage complex development control projects, ensuring all planning applications and street infrastructure proposals meet Southwark’s high highway and public realm standards.

Working collaboratively with internal teams, developers, and key stakeholders such as TfL and statutory undertakers, you'll guide schemes through design review, mitigate potential impacts, and champion street scene improvements that benefit our communities.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and lead the Highway Authority response to major planning applications and enquiries.
• Oversee the full design review process for developer-led highway schemes, ensuring alignment with council standards.
• Coordinate and deliver multiple highway development control projects, ensuring quality, budgetary control, and timely execution.

About You

We’re looking for a motivated and skilled engineer with:

• A relevant degree in civil engineering, transport, or project management (or equivalent experience).
• Chartered membership of a professional body (e.g. ICE) or working towards it.
• Proven experience managing complex highway and public realm schemes from conception to delivery.
• Strong working knowledge of UK highways legislation, transport planning, and the role of local authorities as Highway Authorities.

About Southwark

When you take on a role in the Highways Team, you can expect to work on huge schemes that will define not just London, but the careers of those entrusted with them too. And this role is most definitely career-defining. Southwark Council is embarking on a number of ambitious regeneration projects including Old Kent Road, Aylesbury, Elephant & Castle and Canada Water. And you can be a part of this unique challenge.

The Highway Development Team contribute to the overall Highway Authority’s response to planning enquiries and applications ensuring that suitable arrangements are put in place to mitigate any adverse effects and maximise street scene improvement. The Highway Development Team also ensure that all highway projects are dealt with, from developers and others, and meet the council’s highway design standards by managing their progress through design review process, ensuring a high quality of public realm.

At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities.  Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.

Benefits and more information:

In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.

Recruitment timetable

• Advert Closing Date: 26 May 2025.
• Interview Date: 11 June 2025.

*Please note, we reserve the right to close applications prior to the closing date indicated above - please apply as soon as possible - we look forward to receiving your application.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme:

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people.

To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans.
• Are currently in care or have previously been in care.
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition.

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

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