Senior Engineer (Road Safety)
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Job Description
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £41,208- £45,054 (plus a 10% Market Premia to be reviewed March 2025)
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 24th July 2024
Interview Date(s): TBC
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Engineer (Road Safety) within the Traffic & Signals Team in the Environment and Transport Department. We are looking for someone to commission and manage studies to identify, develop and deliver measures to provide an evidence-led approach to casualty reduction.
About the Role
This role will involve working alongside colleagues in the Traffic & Safety team, providing technical expertise on road safety collisions, undertaking road safety audits, and analysing collision data to develop road safety engineering projects.
You will have experience of supporting a portfolio of projects with a knowledge of project management principles. You will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with diverse priorities. You will have excellent communication and negotiation skills, and the ability to build relationships with stakeholders. In return you will get a chance to manage and support exciting and innovative projects that will provide the blueprint for road safety across Leicestershire
About You
To apply for this post, you must have:
- Qualified Road Safety Auditor to GG119
- Worked at a senior level in an engineering setting
- Analysis or STATS19 collision data to develop and project manage significant road safety engineering projects or works programmes
- Experience writing briefs to commission works based on outcome specifications, and preparing contract documents, assessing, and awarding contracts
- Experience supervising and managing members of a team, both in technical aspects and performance management
- Relevant technical guidance and standards; DMRB, TSM, Manual for Streets, Road Note 39, etc.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills including the ability to shape and influence to achieve successful outcomes and to continue to build on the credibility of the Council and its services.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
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.
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:
Fiona Blockley
Team Manager - Traffic & Safety
Tel : 0116 305 0932
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 'Apply Now'. Please apply sending us your CV as well as a supporting statement. The supporting statement should be no longer than 500 words and incorporated into your CV to form a single document. Your supporting statement should explain 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 Stonewall Top 100, 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:
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