Senior Highway Engineer Street Lighting

Haringey Jobs London; London; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Haringey Council as a Senior Engineer – Street Lighting and lead the design and execution of innovative street lighting solutions. This role focuses on enhancing safety and sustainability across the borough’s street lighting strategy, making a significant impact on local infrastructure. The ideal candidate will be dynamic and experienced in street lighting design, working collaboratively within a motivated team to achieve outstanding results.

Benefits

31 days leave + bank holidays

Potential hybrid working opportunities

Health and wellbeing support

Generous local government pension scheme

Discount schemes across leisure and culture

Qualifications

• Experience in street lighting design for improvement schemes required.
• Ability to provide technical support to project teams and developers.
• Collaborative approach to working on various schemes.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of new street lighting schemes.
• Conduct surveys and prepare cost estimates.
• Manage existing street lighting infrastructure.

Skills

Dynamic

Motivated

Technical Support

Collaboration

Job description

Contract terms

Starting salary: PO4 (£47,532 – £50,574)
Work location: Alexandra House, 10 Station Road, Wood Green, London, N22 7TR
Hours per week: 36 per week
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: Rolling Advert

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Engineer – Street Lighting to join our team. In this key role, you will lead the design and implementation of new street lighting schemes while managing the borough’s existing infrastructure. Your responsibilities include developing solutions to highway lighting challenges, conducting surveys, designing projects, preparing cost estimates, and procuring works through contractors. This is a great chance to enhance safety, sustainability, and efficiency across the network while making a lasting impact on the borough’s street lighting strategy.

About the team

You will be a member of the street lighting team that sit under the Highways Improvements Team. The team roles include design and checking of designs, contract administration of the term contractor, financial control, the measurement and valuation of works, agreement of variations and accounts, attending site works for meetings and inspections. Your main duties will include that of design, project management and supervision of highway lighting works.

About you

We are seeking a dynamic and motivated individual with a positive attitude to provide technical support in the design of street lighting elements for a range of improvement schemes, including traffic, highways, and public realm projects. The ideal candidate will have experience assisting officers, project teams, and developers with street lighting design across various schemes. This is a challenging yet rewarding role, suited to someone who is passionate about street lighting and thrives in a collaborative environment.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts. Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible. Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders. Please continue to check these through the application process. If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact [e-mail]