Senior Engineer | Civil Engineering Team | Lancashire

Lancashire County Council; Preston; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire County Council is seeking a Senior Highway Engineer for a permanent, full-time position in Preston. The role involves overseeing the design and construction of highway projects across Lancashire, supervising a team of engineers, and requiring strong technical skills in highway engineering. The successful candidate will enjoy a generous benefits package including annual leave and pension options, and will be expected to mentor junior staff while ensuring projects meet budget and standards.

Benefits

Generous annual leave allocation

Local Government Pension scheme

Learning and development opportunities

Childcare vouchers

Flexible working opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong highway engineering technical skills.
• Good communicator and customer focused approach.
• Experience in mentoring and leading junior members of staff.
• Working knowledge of current standards relating to highway design and construction.
• Experience of delivering projects to budget and programme.

Responsibilities

• Design and construction supervision of highway schemes across Lancashire.
• Guide schemes from inception to completion.
• Supervise a team of engineers and develop design solutions.
• Liaise with internal engineering teams for detail design and documentation.
• Support junior team members in their development.

Skills

Highway engineering technical skills

Communication

Customer focused approach

Job description

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Job Description

| Salary £39,513 - £44,711 Per annum | Permanent, Full Time, 37 hours per week | Pro Rata

We are recruiting for Senior Highway Engineers to play a key role in the design and construction supervision of highway schemes across Lancashire.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to work on a wide range of highway projects with an opportunity to guide a scheme from inception to completion. We have a wide range of capital projects that we are working on or will be starting to work on in the very near future. These projects are part of our capital programme or follow success in attracting external funding opportunities or directly support business and housing regeneration in Lancashire.

Some of the schemes we are currently working on or have recently delivered include:

• Burnley Pendle Hyndburn Growth Corridor programme which concentrated on highway and junction improvements to promote economic regeneration in East Lancashire,
• Delivery of major section 278 work in Preston city centre to support development for the University of Central Lancashire,
• Design of a new major highway link road with challenging ground conditions,
• We are working in partnership with District councils and stakeholders on public realm improvements within their towns,
• Creation of rural cycle routes in challenging environments,
• Ambitious delivery of a number of Transforming Cities funded schemes.

Supervising a team of engineers, you and your team will identify and develop design solutions to highway engineering problems. Your team will liaise with other internal engineering teams in order to fully undertake detail design and prepare drawings, schedules and documents. You will support junior team members and help them with their development.

You will have a working knowledge of current standards relating to highway design and construction. You will have experience of the design and delivering projects to budget and programme and supporting contractors in the delivery of the construction phase of projects. You will have experience of mentoring and leading junior members of staff. You will have the right to work in the UK, and be based here.

If you have strong highway engineering technical skills, are a good communicator and have a customer focused approach to service delivery then we would be delighted to hear from you. For an informal discussion about this role, please contact the Highway Design Manager Rina Housbey on 01772 533763.

We offer an attractive benefits package including:

• Generous annual leave allocation, 26 days (rising to 32 days after five years service) plus eight bank holidays and two extra statutory days)
• Local Government Pension scheme
• Learning and development opportunities
• Childcare vouchers (salary sacrifice)
• Flexible working opportunities and relocation expenses (where appropriate)

Find out more about the Design and Construction Service at:

https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/jobs/design-and-construction-recruitment/

Join us and help Lancashire and yourself grow together.

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