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Senior Technical Advisor

Job details
Posting date: 01 August 2024
Salary: £40,808 per year
Additional salary information: This role attracts a £4,000 allowance in recognition of the requirement for professional engineering and/or relevant professional occupational experience. After 3 years in the SEO post the allowance will be increased to £8,600 to reflect experience gained
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 18 August 2024
Location: Leeds
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 363817/1

Summary

We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

Are you a qualified engineer with experience working on major projects, looking to make a significant impact in the public sector?

Do you want to lead on shaping the UK's most high-profile transport projects, and advancing the new government's ambitious infrastructure agenda?

If so, then this is the perfect role for you!

DfT’s Infrastructure Efficiency and Engineering (IEE) team is an established Departmental centre of technical expertise operating within the central Portfolio & Project Delivery Directorate (PPDD). Led by the Chief Engineer, the team is formed of highly skilled engineers and project managers to support efficient and effective delivery of DfT’s projects and programmes across all transport modes.

As Senior Technical Advisor you will influence the Department’s ambitious portfolio of transport projects, working as an integral part of the Directorate and with wider project teams to ensure that major projects are delivered efficiently and effectively.

The role provides a challenging and rewarding opportunity to apply your technical skills to influence some of Europe’s largest transport infrastructure schemes; presenting a once-in-generation opportunity to unlock transformational economic benefits for the country.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Using your engineering skills and experience to proactively challenge design specification and assumptions, providing critical client intelligence to senior decision makers.
  • Examining technical ALB evidence for advice to Government and leading on the drafting of briefings and papers to Ministers, Boards (including the DfT Investment, Portfolio and Delivery Committee) and senior leaders.
  • Working alongside technical, sponsor, and analytical colleagues to scrutinise emerging cost estimates to advise major project sponsor teams on their robustness and efficiency position (e.g. by developing cost benchmarking analysis in accordance with Infrastructure and Projects Authority Best Practice etc.).
  • Developing and embedding processes for continuously monitoring and improving the cost and schedule efficiency position of major projects at various lifecycle stages.
  • Actively building IEE’s and DfT’s wider capability in better understanding the cost implications of project options early in the project lifecycle (including ‘should’ or ‘could’ costs).

For more information, please see the attached Role Profile.