Engineer Schemes and Major Maintenance

Highways Magazine; Lancaster; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

34 days holiday (incl. bank holidays)

LGPS pension

3x Salary life cover

Personal development

Free car parking

Flexible working

Employee benefits platform

Job summary

Halton Borough Council is seeking a talented Senior Engineer - Schemes and Major Maintenance to join our highways team. You will contribute to delivering major and minor highway schemes, managing projects, budgets, and contractor performance, while ensuring compliance with legislation and standards.

The role requires HND in engineering or equivalent, extensive highway project experience, CAD capability, and strong communication with diverse stakeholders.

Qualifications

• HND in an engineering discipline or equivalent technical experience.
• Experience delivering highway schemes and providing technical advice.
• Knowledge of highway legislation, design standards, CDM, and procurement.
• CAD skills and experience designing minor highway schemes.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and customer service skills.
• Ability to negotiate, influence, and work in a politically aware environment.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of highway schemes with technical advice for stakeholders.
• Project management, budget monitoring, and contractor management.
• Apply highway legislation, design standards, CDM, and procurement knowledge.
• CAD design of minor highway schemes and related documentation.
• Maintain strong communication with partners, members, and the public.

Skills

Highway schemes delivery

Project management

Budget monitoring

Contractor management

Highway legislation

Design standards

CDM knowledge

Procurement

CAD skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Political awareness

Education

HND in Engineering

Tools

CAD software

Job description

Our Story

Halton is a vibrant local authority with a rich history and heritage, featuring two iconic bridges that connect communities across the River Mersey. Located in Cheshire, Halton boasts excellent transport links between Liverpool and Manchester, as well as close proximity to both Liverpool John Lennon and Manchester Airports.

Our progressive community strategy aims to bring about meaningful, long-term improvements that enhance lives. It’s an exciting time to join us as we develop new policies and transform the way people access services.

We are immensely proud that when asked what’s great about working for Halton, the most popular response from our workforce has been ‘our colleagues’.

Our Team

We are a small team consisting of Senior Engineers and Engineers, working and building relationships with contractors, elected members, the Liverpool Combined Authority and our residents. The work is varied and ranges from small highway improvements, larger active travel schemes and major carriageway and footway reconstruction.

We’re on an ambitious mission to become a leading highway authority, and we’re searching for a talented, driven Senior Engineer - Schemes and Major Maintenance to help us get there.

With over £30 million already invested in Active Travel schemes — and £35 million more on the horizon — we’re transforming how people move around our Borough. But that’s not all:

• We’ve committed £8 million over the next 18 months to enhance roads and footways, creating safer, greener, and more inclusive spaces.
• Every project supports our long term commitment to improve the health and access for all within the Borough, and the biodiversity of the urban environment

No two days are the same — from collaborating with developers and managing Section 278 and 184 agreements, to engaging with members of the public about vehicle access applications for crossings to their properties or completing design work for maintenance and improvement schemes there’s a wide variety of opportunities and workload.

Hours: 37 per week

Your Contributions

Are you passionate about delivering projects that improve lives, connect communities, and protect our environment, if your answer is yes, then we want you on our team!

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Engineer - Schemes and Major Maintenance to join our team.

With a HND in an engineering discipline or equivalent technical experience, you will have:

• Experience delivering highway schemes and providing technical advice?
• Project management, budget monitoring, and contractor management experience?
• Knowledge of highway legislation, design standards, CDM, and procurement?
• CAD skills and experience designing minor highway schemes?
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and customer service skills?
• The ability to negotiate, influence, and work effectively in a politically aware environment?

At Halton Borough Council we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce and a vital part of this is to encourage diversity in all respects. We are committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and tailored to best suit the needs and strength of the individual. This includes making adjustments for people with a disability, neurodiversity or with long-term health conditions.

Our Offer

Aside from working with a great team, our employees have access to a fantastic range of benefits, including:

• A generous annual holiday allowance starting at 34 days per year (including bank holidays), increasing with long service
• Membership of our defined benefit, salary-linked Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contributions
• 3 x Salary Life Cover via Local Government Pension Scheme
• Investment in your personal development
• Free Car Parking at HBC sites
• Flexible working arrangements
• Extensive employee benefits platform including discounted shopping, car leasing, gym memberships, wellbeing hub and Employee Assistance Programme.

Attached documents

• HBC VALUES FRAMEWORK.pdf
• Completing Your Application Form Guidance.pdf
• JobProfile Engineer Engineer Schemes and Major Maintenance.docx