Highways Project Engineer

North Yorkshire Council; Whitby; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a friendly team at North Yorkshire Council as a Project Engineer, overseeing highway maintenance in beautiful areas like Whitby and Scarborough. This role offers a mix of office and hybrid work, competitive salary, and excellent benefits including a local government pension scheme and career advancement opportunities.

Benefits

Local government pension scheme

Salary sacrifice schemes

Flexible working practices

Learning and development packages

Career advancement opportunities

Employee discount benefits

Green car and cycle schemes

Travel loans

Confidential help and support for wellbeing

Qualifications

• Eligible for HNC Civil Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience delivering highway maintenance projects.
• Transferable skills considered.

Responsibilities

• Design and oversee highway maintenance projects.
• Liaise with delivery partners and manage relationships.
• Prepare documents for road gritting decisions.

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Teamwork

Negotiation

Education

HNC Civil Engineering or equivalent

Job description

Would you like to be part of our friendly, welcoming, Area 3 Highways team who are proud to manage all aspects of the highway network we look after which includes Whitby, Scarborough, Filey and many pretty villages such as Goathland and Grosmont, both within the North York Moors National Park?

The Role

We hybrid work with a mixture of working from home and from our offices in Whitby and Scarborough. Our Whitby office has a sea view overlooking Whitby Abbey. Our Scarborough office is conveniently located to the south of Scarborough just off the A64. Both offer free on-site parking and a casual user car allowance is payable.

You would be part of a 7-strong team of 6 project engineers and a senior project engineer reporting to the Improvement Manager. You’d also be working alongside a team of 6 highway officers, an assistant highway officer and a senior project engineer who report to the Maintenance Manager, our Highways Customer Communications Officer, and our three business support colleagues.

Could you help us:

• design/oversee consultants designing, and project manage/oversee consultants project managing a significant workload of highway maintenance (approx. £3m annually) involving carriageway and footway resurfacing, drainage schemes, landslips, renewal of road markings and cattlegrids?
• liaise regularly with our delivery partners NYH, maintaining positive relationships?
• prepare documents and provide information to support decision making between October and April about when roads and footpaths are gritted?
• during May to September, prepare for the next winter gritting season?
• implement changes to parking and loading restrictions and speed limits by carrying out Statutory consultations and writing up committee reports?
• Input to pedestrian/event safety planning for big events affecting the highway, such as Whitby goth weekends and Scarborough Armed Forced Day?
• process temporary road closures to allow our own works, utility company works and events on the highway to go ahead?
• respond to the many customer contacts we receive from our elected members, town and parish councils and members of the public?

An excellent candidate eligible to join us on Grade JK would have either HNC Civil Engineering or equivalent and the experience to deliver some (not all) of the work aspects described above.

However, we would seriously consider suitable applicants who have transferable skills but don’t yet possess exactly the right qualifications or experience. You would need the relevant qualifications and ambition which would permit entry to HNC Civil Engineering on day release to begin your technical career journey with us. Excellent communication and problem-solving skills are necessary and the desire to work in a team environment where cooperation and negotiation is required is essential.

What we Offer

We are a strong performing authority, with supportive political leadership and talented teams providing the platform to have a fulfilling, challenging and successful career in a truly stunning place.

In addition to your salary, we offer a range of great benefits to help you financially and make life a bit easier.

These include:

• a local government pension scheme
• salary sacrifice schemes
• modern flexible working practices
• learning and development packages
• career advancement opportunities
• employee discount benefits including shopping and gym discounts
• green car and cycle schemes
• travel loans
• Health Assured – confidential help and support for your wellbeing

Contact

North Yorkshire is interested in hearing from anyone who feels they would be a suitable fit for this role. For an informal chat, please ring Area Manager, Richard Marr on 07730 498831. Improvement Manager Helen Watson is also available for a chat on 07712 788318 from 23 May onwards.

Key Dates

Closing date: 23:59 Sunday 8 June 2025

To apply please click theApply Nowlink below.