Senior Project Engineer

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Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent

Play a key role in developing and regenerating city of Leicester.

From improving access for buses, cyclists, and pedestrians to leading innovative schemes, we've got plenty of exciting projects in the pipeline. And you'll be at the heart of it. It's about shaping Leicester's future - helping the city to grow and succeed by planning, leading, and delivering a range of projects. And with a commitment to more investment, you'll find lots more opportunities to increase your skills and knowledge, as you help us create a city to be proud of.

Based primarily at 90 Leycroft Road, you'll be required to undertake site visits in and around the city. And when not needed on location you will have flexibility to work from home. Since many works are over the weekend and nights to avoid disruptions to local traffic, you'll be able to work flexibly with paid time off in lieu. Occasionally working with Leicestershire County Council for joint procurements and schemes. You'll be required to hold a current driving license.

What you'll be doing

You'll carry out asset management and maintenance programming for the two biggest assets within the city boundary. From start to finish, you'll engineer design of major highway, bridge, transport infrastructure projects. This includes planning of works, production of tenders including documentation and costings and procurement to delivery of all maintenance programmes and construction projects. You'll lead the preparation of designs for road and bridge replacement, strengthening and maintenance schemes. Working in collaboration with the team you'll identify and meet the objectives in compliance with quality, safety, and environmental objectives, including liaison with internal and external stakeholders. With client satisfaction being key, you'll bring your communication skills and stakeholder management to update at meetings and represent the council. You'll undertake and manage highway, bridges and structural engineering schemes from inspection and assessment, feasibility through to detailed design. You'll undertake quality reviews of designs prior to issue of deliverables produced by project teams.

What you'll need

You'll be able to prepare works packages and manage contracts. Working as part of the team, you'll be able to create, deliver and monitor a programme of work that covers highways and bridges across the city. You'll have excellent technical and communication skills, both verbal and written. A strong leader, you'll be able to ability to manage staff and project Health and Safety responsibilities including compliance with legislation. You'll have experience of working with the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges and Highways specifications to assess highway maintenance requirements, design, and cost-effective solutions. Managing project budgets, you'll be able to relay this information to a range of stakeholders, adapting to suit their technical knowledge. Confident in using systems will enable you to track assets lifecycles, place orders and monitor project progress. Self-motivated, you'll be able to work independently, lead, supervise and train whilst providing guidance and advice to other team members.

What we can offer you

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You'll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We'll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains.

Join us

We're committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That's why we've designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We'll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible.

If you'd like a chat about this post, please feel free contact Abul Tarafder on 0116 454 0621 or email abul.tarafder@leicester.gov.uk