Assistant Engineer
Assistant Engineer
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Job Description
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Croft Depot Arbor Road Croft Leicestershire LE9 3GE
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: per annum
Working Hours:37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Monday 5th May 2025
Interview Date(s): TBC Please note Interviews will be in person
About the Role
Leicestershire County Councils Highways and Transport Technical Support team is seeking a motivated and experienced Assistant Engineer to join our Highway Road Surfacing Treatments schemes. This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in maintaining and enhancing the countys road network ensuring the highest standards of quality and safety for our residents and road users.
As Assistant Engineer your key responsibilities will be:
To prepare prioritised initial designs and costed programmes of highway maintenance work with particular relevance to pavements including surface dressing carriageway resurfacing / strengthening water retexturing micro asphalts joint sealing and slurry sealing works.
To assess carriageway skid resistance data alongside accident information to potential risks and possible carriageway treatments.
To assess highway condition data to formulate prioritised programmes of highway maintenance schemes.
Deal with customer enquiries from internal and external stakeholders including problems with the network ensuring resolution of issues and timely feedback to customers.
Adopt asset management principles as part of project delivery including lifecycle planning and whole life costings as part of estimating.
Responsible for strategic and technical advice to Members partners & stakeholders representing the department at meetings with Members Parish Councils and other customers.
Represent LCC in court proceedings to defend any claims made against the Authority.
Leicestershire County Council is committed to creating a supportive and inclusive work environment. As a valued member of our team you will benefit from a competitive salary opportunities for professional development and career progression A healthy worklife balance including flexible working arrangements and the chance to make a real impact on the countys infrastructure and the lives of our residents.
About You
To apply for this post you must hold or have:
- A degree or equivalent qualification in civil engineering or a related field OR demonstratable relevant experience.
- Experience of working in an engineering setting in relation to design management and maintenance processes.
- Experience of developing and working as part of a project team on civil engineering highway maintenance projects including producing specifications providing comments on technical approval and delivering to time quality and cost.
- Experience of writing briefs to commission works based on outcome specifications.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders. Strong analytical creative thinking skills ability to work to tight timescales and to agreed targets.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation standards and best practices in highways and transport Highways Act NRSWA Traffic Management Act Traffic Regulation Act CDM etc
- Membership (or eligibility for membership) of a relevant professional body such as ICE or CIHT is desirable.
You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.
In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for termtime working parttime hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:
Shiraz Narma Senior Engineer
Telephone: 0
Email:
OR
Andy Cryer Commercial and Business Support Manager
Telephone:
Email:
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Applysection on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning0(select option 2 or raising a ticket via our online portal: applying for this post you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.
Employment Type
Full-Time
