Senior Highway Engineer (Development Management)

Senior Highway Engineer (Development Management)

Permanent, Full Time

£42,679 to £50,211 per annum

Location: Chelmsford

Working Style: Anywhere worker

Closing Date: 1st December 2024

Job Purpose

Working on the Essex Highways Integrated Services contract in partnership
with Essex County Council. The key purpose of the role is to ensure design
and construction of Nationally Significant Infrastructure highway projects
(both new highway construction and improvements to the existing highway
network) are acceptable to the Highway Authority for adoption as public
highway, maintainable at the public expense.

The role requires the ability to manage the implementation of highway works
(externally funded) associated with approved Development Control Orders to
ensure they are designed and implemented in accordance with obligations and
the policies set out.

The successful candidate will be required to liaise as required directly
with internal and external stakeholders, strategic partners and other
providers through detailed design to end of Maintenance Period.

Accountabilities

· Contributes to the development of policies, plans, procedures and
practices to deliver economic and wider community goals, identifying and
introducing new practices and procedures to deliver efficiencies and
respond to technological advances.

· Contributes to the delivery of the programme of works ensuring it
is within budget, programme and specified quality.

· Responsible for budgetary control of specific programmes of work,
to ensure value for money.

· Assist the Highway Authority with consultations with the Local
Planning Authority for proposed developments.

· Agree detailed designs and ensure planning permission
conditions/obligations are met.

· Attend/Chair Meetings and answer site queries/design queries in a
timely manner.

· Undertake extensive stakeholder liaison (both internal and
external).

· Ensure statutory processes are followed as required if necessary

· Instruct legal agreements to allow developers infrastructure works
to be adopted as public highway

· Provide timely and accurate advice to County Councillors, District
Members, Parish Councils and the general public on all highway-related
matters as required.

· Manage and provide technical direction for team members dealing
with all aspects of the highway service.

· Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined
annually within the performance management framework.

Skills and Knowledge

· Educated to degree level or equivalent in related subject or
equivalent proven experience in the field of highways and/or
transportation.

· Evidence of continuing professional development and expert
knowledge in relevant professional area, membership of a professional
institution such as CIHT is desirable.

· Detailed knowledge of Highway Legislation, relevant design
procedures, standards and good practice and a wide range of relevant
engineering or service techniques and procedures.

· Demonstrable knowledge of national guidance, legislation and
regulations relating to design and implementation of highway schemes. In
particular, expertise in the Highway Act 1980 and CDM 2015 is required

· Detailed knowledge and experience in the application of all
relevant Health and Safety legislation.

· Ability to build strong networks and partnerships which are
collaborative and influential in their nature and engender joint delivery.

· Able to demonstrate good project management experience and
conversant with project management tools and Microsoft applications.

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of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames
Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts
of Clacton and Walton. England’s oldest town, Colchester, and two of its
newest – Basildon and Harlow – are right here. Along with the City of
Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It
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Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re
committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under
our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job.
Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments
during the process.

We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet
the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role
require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update
service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates
are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of
your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be
responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on
the DBS update service please go to

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welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and
volunteers to share this commitment.

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