Engineer Schemes and Major Maintenance

Halton Borough Council; Widnes; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

34 days holiday

LGPS pension

Life cover

Personal development

Free car parking

Flexible working

Benefits platform

Job summary

Halton Borough Council is seeking a Senior Engineer in the Schemes & Major Maintenance Team to deliver highway schemes, manage projects, and provide technical advice. The role involves design work, coordinating with contractors, and engaging with members of the public to improve roads and footways.

The post offers a supportive team, development opportunities, and a range of benefits as part of our Local Government Pension Scheme. This is a full-time, on-site position based in Widnes.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Deliver highway schemes and provide technical advice.
• Manage projects, budgets, and contractors to ensure successful delivery.
• Apply highway legislation, standards, CDM, and procurement requirements.
• Design minor highway schemes using CAD tools.
• Communicate with stakeholders and provide high-quality customer service.
• Negotiate and influence outcomes in a politically aware environment.

Skills

Highway schemes

Project management

Legislation & CDM

CAD design

Communication & stakeholders

Negotiation & influence

Education

HND in engineering or equivalent

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

Ready to help shape the future of our Highways? We are an ambitious and high ranking Highway Authority, recently scored 4th for our overall service by the public out of 111 English Highway Authorities benchmarked. We currently have a vacancy for an Engineer in our Schemes & Major Maintenance Team. You'll play a key role in all aspects of our major Highway Maintenance schemes as well as Highway Improvement schemes that make a key positive difference to our community. 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.

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?

Hours

37 per week

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.

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. If you require accommodations, please reach out during the recruitment process so that we can make this the best possible experience for you – [e-mail]

Please refer to the attached Job Profile for further information about the role and our values. We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applications. We look forward to receiving your application!