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Urban Highways Senior Engineer

HotSpot Cities

HotSpot Cities

Edinburgh, UK
Posted on Sep 18, 2025

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role Description

We are growing our Urban Highways team in Scotland and are seeking a Senior Design Engineer / Principal Engineer to assist in the delivery of Urban Highways and Active Travel Infrastructure. Our live projects and clients include the likes of Glasgow City Council, HS2 along with private developers, architects and contractors. If you are an engineering professional who is keen to work on Active travel, Urban Highways or Public Realm projects, we can add to your experience with digital engineering tools and techniques, and provide a diverse, collaborative environment where your career can thrive.

Role Accountabilities:

  • Urban Highways / Active Travel / Sustainable Travel focussed engineering design and design management
  • Commercial, programme and quality management of projects
  • Mentoring engineers, technicians and apprentices to assist with the development of skills within the team;
  • Managing work undertaken through Global Excellence Centres in India
  • Assisting with business development through tenders, proposals and client presentation (internal and external clients)

Qualifications and Experience:

  • Career driven to assist with succession planning. The candidate would be a Senior Engineer or Principal Engineer keen to progress to the next level;
  • CEng / IEng status or verifiable progress towards CEng / IEng status
  • Able to manage a portfolio of Active Travel / Sustainable Travel projects at varying stages of development and with different clients;
  • Can clearly demonstrate sound experience of urban highway design and design management
  • CAD and 3D modelling skills in a BIM environment will be an advantage;
  • Can demonstrate sound experience of working for local authorities and/or developers and show an understanding of their objectives and key performance indicators.
  • Good coaching and staff supervision skills;
  • Commercial awareness to assist with profitable delivery of projects;

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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