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🥝 Principal Structures Engineer

Kent County Council | Ashford, United Kingdom | Posted June 07, 2026

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An opportunity has arisen in the KCC Highway Structures team for an ambitious, talented and experienced Chartered Civil/Structural Engineer who is keen to demonstrate their leadership and project delivery skills. You will need to have experience with highway structures such as bridges, culverts, retaining walls and reinforced earthworks and a desire to pass this knowledge on to others.

Kent County Council is responsible for a highway network of 8700km, with our highway network being the most valuable asset we own as an authority. The Highway Structures in our care represent a significant proportion of the value of the highway network and as a team we take great pride in managing those assets effectively for both current and future generations. We are responsible for approximately 1,100 bridges and viaducts, 570 large culverts, 450 other structures (such as retaining walls, underpasses and gantries) and 2 tunnels. We are also responsibl...

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