Highways Site Engineer

Gloucestershire County Council; United States; Hybrid; USD 56,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and agile working occasions

25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5

Option to purchase additional leave

LGPS

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Cycle to Work

Green Car Scheme

Career development opportunities

Occupational Health service

Family-friendly employer

Employee discounts

Prism network

Job summary

Gloucestershire County Council is seeking two Highways Site Engineers to join the Highways Development Management team. You will undertake site inspections, monitor construction, and assess compliance against highway standards across the county.

Role involves independent working, liaising with developers and stakeholders, producing reports, and mentoring junior staff. Hybrid working with offices or home, generous leave and LGPS benefits.

Responsibilities

• Site inspections and monitoring of highway works
• Technical assurance across sections 38, 278 and 184 of the Highways Act 1980
• Liaise with developers, contractors and stakeholders to ensure standards are met
• Produce regular work reports and provide constructability feedback to engineers
• Mentor developing team members and manage workload

Job description

Are you ready for a new challenge? Looking to progress your existing skills in highway construction? Want to expand on your experience in the private or public sector? Then your new career could be right here! We have an exciting opportunity for 2 highly skilled Highways Site Engineers to join a busy Highways Development Management team in the beautiful county of Gloucestershire. As a Highways Site Engineer, you will take on a vital role, undertaking comprehensive site-based inspections and assessing technical assurance of highway and transport infrastructure works under Sections 38, 278 and 184 of the Highways Act (1980). You will work across Gloucestershire to ensure developer led infrastructure is constructed to the highest standards. Ensuring that only suitable assets are adopted to be maintained by the Local Authority. This will be done by providing technical site assurance and inspections, construction monitoring and risk management, providing technical advice and engaging with relevant stakeholders, monitoring compliance with Health and Safety, working collaboratively with Street works to assess Traffic Management and Network Impact, self-managing your workload and providing constructability feedback to engineers for technical assessment whilst also providing mentoring responsibility to developing members of the team. You will be responsible for inspecting the development works in your designated Districts although you may be required to work anywhere within the County if required. This is an exciting time for talented, self-driven highway professionals to join a team and County Council going from strength-to-strength, affording you the opportunity to play a crucial part in ensuring Gloucestershire remains a desirable location where people want to live, work, and visit.

To be successful in this role, you will have extensive knowledge of specifications and standards relating to the highway and construction sector along with experience of the on-site delivery of highway improvement schemes. You will have experience of working within CDM regulations, Road Safety Audits, Traffic Regulations and NRSWA and be familiar with related guidance and legislation such as GCC Technical Specification for New Streets, Manual for Streets, DMRB, TSRGD, LTN1/20, Tactile Paving Surfaces, Kerbing and SuDS. You will be capable of working independently with the use of your own vehicle and possess strong technical and engineering acumen, using this to generate regular work reports and carry out staged inspections, assessing works against approved drawings, specifications and relevant standards. You will be personable and professional, with a proven track record of providing robust technical solutions to complex engineering problems. You will bring your problem-solving skills and customer-focused nature to a talented team delivering a crucial service. You will be proactive and committed to your professional development within civil engineering and, more specifically, highways development management., The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have a right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months' employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer. / The council will consider sponsorship for this role, in line with Home Office regulations and subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks. It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

We are committed to investing in your development and operate flexible times and ways of working. Although you will be predominantly out meeting developers and their contractors within the County, you will also be working on your laptop in one of our offices or working from home. As you'd expect, we offer an attractive package of benefits which makes a career in Local Government both flexible and rewarding. For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• An option to purchase IO days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part- time staff)
• Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family
• Career development and qualification opportunities Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• An in-house Occupational Health service
• Employee discount scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&Cs apply)
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network