Partner – Civil/Highways Design Engineering

December 6, 2023 | Comments Off on Partner – Civil/Highways Design Engineering


Partner - Civil/Highways Design Engineer
Location: Manchester
Up to £80k + Bonus and car allowance


Are you an experienced Civil/Highways Design Engineer, looking to take the next step in your career? I have a brilliant opportunity at Partner level with an award winning, multi-disciplinary consultancy in Manchester.

In addition to your salary, you can expect:

  • A healthy holiday balance of 27 days, plus bank holidays & the ability to buy / sell to suit you
  • 3 days a year to give your time to others, volunteering for great causes
  • An inclusive wellbeing offer:
    • Financial - Life Assurance, Pension Scheme (3% Employee, 6% Employer), Income Protection, Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme, flexible choice of Critical Illness Insurance
    • Physical - Free Private Medical Insurance, Doctor at Hand Private GP, Best Doctors, flexible choice of Dental Plan, Cycle to Work Scheme, GymFlex & Healthcare Cash Plan
  • Car allowance and a generous performance bonus scheme
  • A flexible approach to hybrid working, to suit both you & your team
  • Tailored career development - focused on professional, personal and/or educational


You will play an extremely important senior role delivering innovative solutions for clients, whilst developing and strengthening the existing Civil/Highways team not only within the Manchester office, but throughout the entire Civils discipline nationwide.


The company maintain a spread of projects across all public and private sector markets from social housing to Formula One.


Key Duties:

  • Leading and growing the Civil Engineering/Highways discipline in Manchester
  • Manage existing clients and develop further highways design opportunities with local authorities and contractors
  • Look to grow the group on the back of new and repeat clients
  • Be responsible for resourcing and delivering to a financial target
  • Oversight of the team's work to a high standard
  • To ensure that the business generates and sustains profitable sources of income that are serviced to a standard that meets the requirements of the client and the internal standards of the Partnership
  • Day-to-day support to colleagues from other disciplines within the office
  • Represent the company at external meetings with clients and fellow professionals
  • Be responsible for delivering work to a pre-agreed budget
  • Project profitability (monitoring / planning of costs and budgets)
  • Responsible for negotiating fee proposals and requesting additional fees
  • Construct teams from internal and external resources
  • Lead the technical development of the group

Required experience:

  • Experience with managing and developing a Civil/Highways Engineering team/discipline
  • Experience with designing a wide range of Highways projects from conception through to completion (including calculations, drawings and specifications), whilst demonstrating commercial awareness
  • Educated to degree level and ideally a Chartered Engineer
  • Experience working in a multi-disciplinary consultancy environment


If you are interested in this brilliant opportunity, please get in touch.

Will Herman
07581619823

Aldwych Consulting values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

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