Principal Engineer (Advanced Design and Signals)

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: 47694 - 52155 per annum (plus Market Premia of Standard 10% of top of grade)

Working Hours:37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 8th June 2025

Interview Date(s): TBC

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Principal Engineer to lead our Advanced Design and Signals Team within Transport Projects & Programmes at Leicestershire County Council one of the best performing councils in the country. Weve achieved several decades of high performance with our success recognised by national Government industry awards and our residents.

The successful applicant will join a motivated friendly team of professionals committed to delivering public sector highway projects and programmes that offer best value for money.

As a Principal Engineer you will enjoy a competitive salary as well as a generous benefits package including pension flexible working and annual leave. You will also have access to training and development opportunities as well as support and guidance from your colleagues and managers.

Leicestershire County Council is committed to Smarter Working and understands the benefits of supporting employees to manage their work and life balance whilst meeting the needs of the service. Our diverse team operates a Hybrid working approach partially working from our offices in County Hall Glenfield and partially working from home. The successful applicant will also be expected to undertake site visits when required.

About the Role

Your role will be to lead a team of engineers assistant engineers senior technicians and technicians to deliver advanced design for highway projects and programmes while actively managing our Traffic Signal assets.

You will be responsible for health & safety within your area and the wider Transport Projects & Programmes team including client designer and principal designer roles under CDM 2015. You will need to prioritise work within your team adapting to changes in thedepartments priorities whilst ensuring you are making best use of the resources you have.

As part of the advanced design function you will work closely with other teams in the department including Policy and Strategy Engineering Services Traffic & Safety and Sustainable Transport interpreting technical data and providing reports that communicate that information in a way that best suits your audience. You will be providing concept ideas and recommendations supporting the development and implementation of County Council and Third Party funded schemes and programmes as required to safeguard the Highway Authority whilst facilitating economic growth.

As part of managing our traffic signal assets you will work closely with partners and suppliers to ensure our traffic signal assets are managed in accordance with local and national guidance. This work includes bidding for funding designing installing commissioning and maintaining assets through their whole life span using a variety of contracts and service agreements.

You will need to be innovative in your approach and have an understanding of sustainable design value engineering and innovation keeping up with the fast pace of technological change.

About You

To apply for this post you must:

• Be able to organise manage and control resources and assigned budgets to ensure projects are completed within approved cost and time targets.
• Be able to negotiate with local /central government private organisations and stakeholders to facilitate necessary agreements.
• As a duty holder representing the LCC you must have knowledge and practical experience of the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM) toensure all projects are carried out in a way that secures health and safety.
• Have excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise work within tight timescales whilst working under pressure.
• Have strong knowledge of emerging technologies and their application for Highways operations and works.
• Have experience of providing strategic and technical advice to Members partners and stakeholders on programmes and projects to ensure appropriate communication and dialogue takes place including writing reports.
• Be able to support the performance management of services and teams through the departmental business planning process to drive continuous improvement in the delivery of Departmental and Service outcomes; monitoring and reporting on progress as required.

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

Please apply sending us your CV as well a supporting statement detailing how you meet the requirements of the supporting statement should beno longer than 750 words. 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 term-time working part-time 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:

David Hilton-Barber Team Manager - Transport Projects & Programmes

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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.

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