Senior Traffic Control Engineer - Technology Services

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AECOM is seeking a Senior Traffic Control Engineer to join its Technology Services team and deliver traffic control projects for clients nationwide. You will lead packages for junctions and crossings, support RAMS and assurance, and provide input for FAT and MOVA. Collaborate with highways and structures teams and mentor junior colleagues while engaging clients. Essentials include a BEng or equivalent in Electrical, Electronics or Civil Engineering; knowledge of UK standards including DMRB, TSRGD, TSM and NHSS8/HERS; proficiency in AutoCAD Civils3D ITS1827 MOVA data; bid and risk experience with strong communication. To apply, tailor your CV to MOVA and junction projects, demonstrate stakeholder management, and highlight your hybrid working experience and onboarding.

Company Description

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There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of nearly 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We’re one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

Are you ready to deliver Traffic Control Engineering projects to clients across the UK and internationally?

We are looking for a Senior Traffic Control Engineer to work within our national Technology Services business to provide services to a diverse client base - from strategic advisory services through to technical research, design and delivery related engineering services.

The Technology Services team works closely with clients and partners, largely in the Transportation Sector, although this role will also support other sectors due to its specialist nature. Our Clients are many and varied and span National Transport Authorities, Combined Authorities, Local Authorities and Contractors as well as the private sector. Current and/or recent project examples are:

• Bus Corridor Improvements for Transport for London (TfL), Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM), Transport for West Midlands (TfWM), West England Combined Authority (WECA), Derbyshire County Council, Swansea City Council, National Transport Authority (NTA) and Glasgow City Council (GCC).
• Active Travel Improvements for West England Combined Authority (WECA) and National Transport Authority (NTA).
• Traffic Signal Upgrades for Derbyshire County Council.
• Public Realm Improvements for City of Wolverhampton Council (CWC).
• Town Centre Improvements in Folkstone for Kent County Council (KCC).
• Highway Network Improvements for Colchester City Council (CCC), CNGS Development.
• Junction Modernisations for Glasgow City Council (GCC).

The team provides technical leadership of projects throughout the project lifecycle from feasibility, preliminary and detailed design stages through to performance monitoring and assessment. Here’s a broad sample of what you’ll do as a Senior Traffic Control Engineer:

• Deliver: 
  • Provide specialist technical consultancy and design services for traffic control engineering projects for internal and external clients. 
  • Produce design packages, which may include design layout drawings, design reports, ITS1827 forms, MOVA data sets and works specifications for junctions and crossings. 
  • Contribute to RAMS, hazard logs and technical assurance evidence. 
  • Provide implementation support in the form of FAT, SAT and MOVA / Bus priority / SCOOT Validation.
  • Prepare and respond to technical queries, departures, and assurance/approval gate reviews.
• Collaborate: 
  • Coordinate with highways, structures, drainage, geotechnical, environment and traffic teams to integrate technology with civil and electrical works where required. 
  • Attend meetings and engage with clients at various locations across the UK. 
  • Provide support and mentoring to junior members of the team
• Quality: 
  • Ensure compliance with UK standards and guidance (e.g., DMRB, TSM, TSRGD), CDM 2015 and Safe by Design principles. 
  • Support programme, cost, and risk management; contribute to bids, estimates and technical proposals where required. 
  • Check that the quality of technical deliverables is in line with the client’s brief and AECOM’s quality procedures.

Grow with us! If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just design infrastructure; we also uplift communities and enhance lives. Why not give our AECOM Transportation page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see firsthand the difference we're making in the industry. 

Let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, technical practice networks, AECOM University, volunteering days and our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle. 

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• BEng or equivalent in Electrical, Electronics, or Civil Engineering.
• Knowledge of the latest traffic control engineering design standards, implementation support processes and traffic signal technology applications.
• Proficiency in producing technically assured deliverables (e.g. AutoCAD, Civils3D), equipment schedules, ITS1827 forms, and MOVA designs inc MOVA data sets and design reports.
• NHSS8 / HERS registered.
• Experience in traffic control engineering design and implementation support, especially in MOVA control.
• Design skills in advanced traffic control modes (MOVA / SCOOT), and operations at junction and corridor level. 

Additional Information

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [email protected]

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.