Assistant Engineer
| Posting date: | 11 April 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 May 2025 |
| Location: | leicester, LE9 3GE |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5048 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Croft Depot, Arbor Road, Croft, Leicestershire, LE9 3GE
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £38,700 - £41,373 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 Council’s 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 county’s 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 work-life balance, including flexible working arrangements and the chance to make a real impact on the county’s 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 to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and 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 individual's 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 Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Shiraz Narma, Senior Engineer
Telephone: 0116 305 6798
Email: Shiraz.Narma@leics.gov.uk
OR
Andy Cryer - Commercial and Business Support Manager
Telephone: 0116 3058253
Email: andy.cryer@leics.gov.uk
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 Apply section 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 telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.
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