introduction we have an urgent requirement for a principal highway engineer to work in south london important previous experience in highway design the job principal highway engineer purley oaks offices 3 month contract about the role as part of mouchel s work with enterprisemouchel and tfl you will be working on the delivery of important highway engineering projects the principal engineer needs to work with minimum supervision we will provide support where required the highways experience required is hands on design as you ll be producing design drawings and traffic management plans and should be related to trunk roads and or county council works working in a busy design office where we share knowledge and support each other to deliver quality schemes to programme and designs to be right first time every time about you the candidate should have demonstrable experience in delivering highway improvement and maintenance schemes as follows carriageway highway pavement design an understanding of pavement reconstruction processes and design highway asphalt design a good understanding of various asphalt types and their uses carriageway profiling a good understanding of how to work out levels and carriageway profiles minor drainage and gully design understanding of locating gullies and spacing footways materials and types a good understanding of footway paving asphalts types and construction details reconstruction and reinstatement a good understanding of footway construction details and design work out levels and profiles a good understanding of working out levels and profiles safety schemes junction and road layout an understanding of carriageway layouts and road widths and radiuses road safety issues a good understanding of road safety issues responding to road safety audits road marking amp signs a good understanding of road marking and signs designs about mouchel mouchel is an infrastructure and business services group with a strong track record of building longterm relationships with our clients and partners to help to improve the lives of millions of people mouchel helps clients in the public sector and regulated industry to provide better everyday services to customers and communities its combination of professional commercial and technical expertise enables clients to improve their strategy services people and asset management we employ around people in offices across the uk ireland and internationally to apply for this position candidates must be eligible to live and work in the uk