Senior Project Engineer Highways

Senior Project Engineer Highways

Location: Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ

Salary: £48,226 - £51,356

Permanent, Full Time

Ref: REQ0001210

Package: We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages.

We are looking for engineers to support the delivery of our ambitious transport capital programme. Our work includes:

• Providing new active travel routes, including our A259 walking and cycling scheme.
• Delivery of bus priority measures, adding to our nationally recognised network.
• Enhancing the city’s public realm through schemes such as the transformative Valley Gardens project.
• Delivering improvements to our city’s streets to make them safer and more accessible, as well as make them more resilient to the impacts of climate change, for example by introducing tree planting and Sustainable Urban Drainage schemes.

We are recruiting a Senior Project Engineer and an Assistant Project Engineer which will play key roles in the delivery of this exciting programme. This will include designing our upcoming schemes, appointing contractors and supervising the implementation of works.

For the Senior Project Engineer role, you will have experience of delivering highway schemes, including designing schemes in AutoCAD and extensive knowledge of highways and transport regulations. You will also have previous experience of managing contractors.

There is full information about the role in the attached documents. If you would like an informal discussion, please contact Colin Harwood, Acting Transport Capital Programme Manager, colin.harwood@brighton-hove.gov.uk

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Why work for us?
As a council, we want to:

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

How to apply

Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.

To apply, please click on the apply button.

Closing date: 30 August 2026.

Interviews to be held: w/c 7th September 2026.

As part of your application, you will need to provide your education and career history and answer some application/shortlisting questions. Your answers to the application/shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

AI advice for candidates

We are interested in hearing about your experience and skills in your own words. While we value people who know how to use AI, we ask that you minimise using it in your application.

We are keen to hear how your experience and skills align to our values and the skills and experience needed to perform well in our roles with clear real examples from you. To support you in this, we have guidance on using the STAR model which can help you ensure you are telling us your whole story. We also provide clarity on the skills we are looking for in our adverts and in the job description/person specification attached to each job advert.

All the applications we receive are read by at least two hiring managers and we do not use AI in this process. Our experience of reading applications is that those that have heavily used AI contain generic paragraphs that are strikingly similar to other applicants’ responses. This makes it extremely difficult to differentiate between applications and doesn't give us enough evidence of your individual skills. There is a risk that we will therefore not be able to shortlist you. Instead, we recommend you ensure your application stands out by presenting clear examples of your actual skills and experiences in your own words.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.