Senior Engineer - Asset Management

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Job Description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: Croft Depot, Arbor Road, Croft, Leicester, LE9 3GE

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £42,498 - £46,344 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: Sunday 9th February 2025

Interview Date(s): TBC - Interviews will be in person

About the Role

Leicestershire County Council's Highways and Transport Technical Support team is seeking a motivated and experienced Senior Engineer to lead and manage our Highway Road Surfacing Treatments schemes. This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in maintaining and enhancing the county's road network, ensuring the highest standards of quality and safety for our residents and road users.

As a Senior Engineer, your key responsibilities will be:
• Lead and Manage: Supervise and mentor a team of technical staff, providing guidance, support, and development opportunities.
• Scheme Preparation: Oversee the preparation and delivery of Leicestershire County Council's Highway Road Surfacing Treatments schemes, from inception to completion.
• Project Management: Manage project budgets, resources, and timescales to ensure effective and efficient delivery of programs.
• Technical Expertise: Provide specialist technical advice on road surfacing treatments, ensuring compliance with national and local standards.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including contractors and consultants, to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Continuous Improvement: Monitor and evaluate completed schemes to identify lessons learned and implement improvements in future programs.

Leicestershire County Council is committed to creating a supportive and inclusive work environment. As a valued member of our team, you will benefit from a competitive salary, opportunities for professional development and career progression, A healthy work-life balance, including flexible working arrangements and the chance to make a real impact on the county's infrastructure and the lives of our residents.

This role is a "Safety Critical Post" and, consequently, subject to random drug and alcohol testing in accordance with our policies and procedures. A copy of our Substance Misuse Policy and Procedure is available upon request.

About You

To apply for this post you must hold or have:

• A degree or equivalent qualification in civil engineering or a related field
• Extensive experience in highways engineering, with a strong focus on road surfacing treatments,
• Proven leadership and team management skills, with the ability to motivate and guide a multidisciplinary team,
• Strong project management capabilities, including budget control, resource allocation, and risk management,
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation, standards, and best practices in highways and transport, Highways Act, NRSWA, Traffic Management Act, Traffic Regulation Act, CDM etc
• Membership (or eligibility for membership) of a relevant professional body, such as ICE or CIHT, is desirable.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Andy Cryer - Commercial and Business Support Manager

Telephone: 0116 3058253

Email: andy.cryer@leics.gov.uk

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.

By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.

About Us

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

For further information on what it's like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

Our Recruitment Process
Our Organisational Values
Our Employee Benefits
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