Senior Engineer–Bridge Assets | Highways Network Management | Lancashire

Lancashire County Council; Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire County Council is seeking a dynamic Senior Bridges & Structures Engineer to support our ambitious bridge programme in Lancashire. You will work within the Highways Asset Management Service to develop asset risk-based approaches and oversee bridges, retaining walls and footbridges to ensure service delivery.

You will lead a professional team, coordinate with stakeholders, prioritise a varied portfolio and apply relevant design standards such as the Inspection Manual for Highway

Qualifications

• Detailed working knowledge of highway structures such as bridges, retaining walls and rural footbridges.
• Familiar with key design standards and manuals for highway structures (Inspection Manual, Well Managed Highway Infrastructure, DMRB).
• Experience prioritising and managing a varied portfolio of projects.
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills at an appropriate level.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver projects to meet corporate responsibilities within the bridge asset programme.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify, develop and deliver projects.
• Ensure bridges and retaining walls meet service delivery requirements.
• Support the Highway Asset Management service with asset risk-based approaches.

Skills

Bridge engineering

Retaining walls

Project management

Negotiation

Staff leadership

Tools

Inspection Manual for Highway Structures

Well Managed Highway Infrastructure

Design Manual for Roads and Bridges

Job description

Job Description

Salary £42,123 - £47,665 per annum | Full time, 37 hours per week | Permanent | Highways Network Management | Lancashire

Job Description

Salary £42,123 - £47,665 per annum | Full time, 37 hours per week | Permanent | Highways Network Management | Lancashire

Please note that Sponsorship is not available for this role.

Lancashire County Council

Here at Lancashire County Council, we are helping to make Lancashire the best place to live, work, visit and prosper. Lancashire is a vibrant and striking place and Lancashire County Council exists to serve everyone who lives or works in Lancashire. As the fourth largest local authority in the country and the largest in the North, we serve over 1.2 million residents.

The Highways Asset Management Service is responsible for ensuring that Lancashire County Council meets its statutory duty as a highway's authority through strategic management of over 7,500 kilometres of vehicular highway network, containing 152,000 streetlights,15,000 illuminated signs/bollards, over 2000 bridges and other structures, together with many other highway assets.

The Role & Responsibilities

We are seeking a dynamic and results-orientated Senior Bridges & Structures Engineer, to support our ambitious projects and contribute to our organisation's success. This is an exciting opportunity to join us in Lancashire, as we continue to develop and deliver our bridge asset management programme. The work contributes towards the wider Highway Asset Management service, through the development of an asset risk-based approach to Asset Management, including development of the Transport Asset Management Plan.

For further details, the Highway Asset Management webpage can be found at: Highway asset management In Lancashire - Lancashire County Council

• As a Senior Bridge Engineer, you will be an outstanding individual who will play a key role in ensuring that Lancashire County Council's bridges and retaining walls continue to meet requirements for service delivery.
• As part of a professional team, you will work closely with various stakeholders, identifying, developing and delivering projects to meet the corporate responsibilities.
• You will be highly experienced, with detailed working knowledge of highway structures such as bridges, retaining walls and rural footbridges.
• You should be familiar with the relevant highway bridge design standards, guidance and practices, such as the Inspection Manual for Highway Structures, Well Managed Highway Infrastructure - A Code of Practice and the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges
• You will have experience of prioritising and managing work across a varied portfolio.
• Ability to organise, manage time and prioritise work effectively whilst delivering a number of objectives.
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills at an appropriate level in order to achieve required results.
• Experience of managing, leading and motivating staff.

Job Description & Person Specification

Application Supporting Statement

Please note that when completing your personal statement, it's important that you have specifically demonstrated and evidenced that you meet each essential criteria from the person specification in line with the role responsibilities as detailed above. If you do not meet the criteria, but feel you possess relevant qualities, please demonstrate within your supporting statement.

Essential Car User

This is an essential car user post; you will be required to provide a car for use in connection with the duties of this post and must be insured for business use. In certain circumstances consideration may be given to applicants who, as a consequence of a disability, are unable to drive.

Why Join us

There's fabulous flexibility to create the work life balance with the opportunity to operate hybrid working with home and office days. You'll enjoy up to 32 days annual leave (after 5 years) plus bank holidays, 2 additional days at Christmas and then an additional 20 days that can be purchased too. We offer a public sector pension with a generous 16.3% contribution from the employer, with shared AVC's available. We have a benefits package offering discounts in retail, holidays at home or abroad, long service awards, Medicash, support/wellbeing groups, cycle to work schemes, eye tests plus much more.

Development:

You will receive support and development along the journey – there will be time for supportive reflection and supervision for yourself, opportunities for personal/professional qualifications, multidisciplinary initiatives, mentoring, but most of all the opportunity to make a difference, feel valued and achieve the job satisfaction you've always wanted.

Inclusivity:

LCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Informal Chat:

If this opportunity is of interest, we encourage that you contact Paul Thornberry, Principal Engineer – Structures Asset Management, [e-mail] (01772 535 393), for more details.

Lancashire County Council Values

Supportive, Innovative, Respectful, Collaborative. Here at Lancashire County Council, we are helping you to make Lancashire the best place to live, work, visit and prosper.

Local Government Reorganisation

The Government has confirmed that local government across Lancashire will be reorganised, with the current 15 councils being replaced by four new unitary councils covering North, South, East and West Lancashire from April 2028.

If you are successful in your application, you will initially join Lancashire County Council. However, as part of the planned transition, your employment will transfer to one of the new unitary councils from April 2028, subject to the implementation of the reorganisation and relevant employment legislation.

Throughout this period, our focus remains on delivering excellent services to our communities. By joining us now, you'll play an important role in shaping the future of local government and helping to build a strong new organisation that will serve residents for years to come.

In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website.

We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications.