Project Engineer

Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership; Stafford; Híbrido; GBP 42 000 - 64 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Flexible working

Office/Home hybrid

Resumo da oferta

Staffordshire County Council is seeking a Project Engineer in Highway Development Management to provide detailed responses on planning applications, focusing on transport and highway safety. The role involves liaising with Local Planning Authorities and contributing to sustainable estate street designs in line with Design Guides.

The ideal candidate will be a Chartered/Graduate civil engineer with transport planning experience, possess a full driving licence, and thrive in a hybrid working

Qualificações

• Chartered/Graduate civil engineering background with transport planning experience.
• Experience with planning applications and S278/S38 agreements.
• Ability to work with internal and external partners and manage multiple stakeholders.

Responsabilidades

• Produce detailed comments on planning applications for highway and transport elements.
• Audit Transport Assessments and Travel Plans using GIS and accessibility tools.
• Lead pre-application discussions for sustainable estate street layouts per design guides.
• Attend planning committee sessions as a statutory consultee when required.
• Support Development Plan Policies and Staffordshire Local Transport Plan implementation.

Conhecimentos

Chartered Civil Engineer

S278/S38 experience

Stakeholder collaboration

Multi-disciplinary teams

Time & budget management

Driving licence

Formação académica

Graduate Civil Engineer / Transport Planner

HNC with experience

Ferramentas

GIS

Descrição da oferta de emprego

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This post is within the Highway Development Management team and is heavily focussed on transport planning and is suitable for professionals with a skillset and qualifications within that area.

Highways Development Management has a huge impact on people’s lives and is at the forefront of regeneration, redevelopment and plays a major part in everyday life for residents of Staffordshire and beyond.

It is an exciting time to start a career at Staffordshire and this job will provide you with great opportunities for career progression and to be involved in medium/large scale projects across Staffordshire. The Highways Development Management team currently comprises of two team leaders who line manage a team of 14 staff who deal with approximately 3,000 planning applications a year plus pre-application advice.

If you are keen on working within a Highway Development Management role and protecting the County’s highway network and also helping to improve the transport facilities available for the people of Staffordshire as part of the planning process then this rewarding career may be the career for you.

We offer a great employment package with a flexible environment of office and/or home working to allow for that work/life balance.

Main Responsibilities

As a Project Engineer, you will be part of the team providing detailed responses on planning applications as a statutory consultee. This will require you to have contact with a variety of Local Planning Authorities (LPA) ensuring the relationship is a positive one and the responses to them are detailed and encompass all elements of transport and highway safe

You will also:

• prepare and issue comments, advice and recommendations relating to highway and transportation elements of planning applications; having regard to current design/transport guidelines.
• audit Transport Assessments and Travel Plans, within the experience, training and knowledge of the post applying GIS analysis techniques and other accessibility planning software.
• proactively instigate, encourage, and participate in pre-application discussions with developers to aid the development of sustainable estate street layouts/designs in accordance with relevant Design Guides.
• have the opportunity to attend an LPA planning committee to defend your reply as a statutory consultee to a planning application.
• prepare and give evidence in connection with appeals and Court proceedings under the Town and Country Planning Acts.
• assist in the implementation of Development Plan Policies and the Staffordshire Local Transport Plan.

The Ideal Candidate

The minimum criteria that will be used to shortlist for this role will be:

• to be a Chartered Civil Engineer or Incorporated Civil Engineer or a Graduate Civil Engineer, Transport Planner with post graduate experience or a HNC and post qualification experience.
• experience relevant to planning applications and of S278 and S38 Agreements
• experience of working in partnership with internal and external bodies.
• experience of the operation of agreements for the adoption of new streets and construction of off-site improvement works.
• experience of participating in multi-disciplinary teams.
• ability to work to time and budgetary constraints.
• a full driving licence.

You will also be required to support other members of the team who may have less experience than yourself. On the job learning, coaching and mentoring is not unusual and is encouraged to create a positive can-do atmosphere within the team.

We are hoping to conduct the interviews on 16th November 2026

Our Recruitment Process

We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered.

Please note: The minimum criteria in the ideal candidate section detailed above will be used if you are applying under one of our Interview Guarantee Schemes, detailed below.

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as yourapplication meets the minimum criteria for the post.