Senior Engineer – Road Safety & TRO
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 22 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Competitive |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 21 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Stockport, SK1 3XE |
| Cwmni: | inploi |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 75718618 |
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Senior Engineer Road Safety & TRO
Career graded SO1 - SO3 (£33,366 - £43,693)
37 hours, Full-Time
Permanent
Hybrid: Stopford House and homeworking (minimum 2 days a week in office)
Application Deadline: 20th August 2025, 11:59pm
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: 21st August 2025
Interview Date: 28th August 2025
Interview Type: In person
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Join us at Stockport Council MJ Local Authority of the Year 2025
Your Role
Are you ready to join a forward-thinking team dedicated to transforming Stockport? At Stockport Council, we're on an ambitious journey to enhance our town's infrastructure and community well-being. From delivering a new Metrolink route to advancing redevelopment at Stockport Rail Station and supporting the massive regeneration of Town Centre West, we are committed to our 'Five Big Things' One Stockport Strategy.
Do you want to be part of this transformative journey? Do you want to contribute to an £80m capital programme and help secure the future of our borough? Do you aspire to improve the lived experience of Stockport’s 300,000 residents? If your answer is ‘yes’, then Stockport Council is the place for you.
Key Responsibilities:
As a senior engineer, you will be at the heart of our transport network's management and development, fulfilling our responsibilities as a highway authority. You will:
- Bring People Together: Working closely with other teams within, and outside, the service you will be effective at enabling multi-disciplinary professionals to collaborate towards shared goals. You will be a versatile and engaging communicator, able to engage with stakeholders at all levels, dealing with colleagues, the public, members and other stakeholders with empathy and understanding.
- Manage Big Responsibilities: You will be responsible for delivery of minor works packages improving road safety around schools, delivery of 20mph speed reduction schemes and rolling out moving traffic enforcement sites.
This role also acts as a bridge between our capital design team delivering changes and updates in traffic regulation orders. You will be addressing issues in enforcement, parking, car parks, and public realm/neighbourhood projects. You will be integral to creating and delivering projects that support the effective management of our transport network, such as the moving traffic enforcement powers delivery plan, bus gate and enforcement strategy, and revising the town centre parking strategy.
About You
We are looking for a candidate who brings proven technical expertise in civil engineering, traffic engineering, road safety, or transport planning.
- Embody the STAR Values and Embrace Stockport: Promote our ‘One Stockport’ way of working by encouraging seamless collaboration between teams and identifying solutions to project delivery challenges.
- Demonstrate Relevant Educational Achievement: Hold a qualification in Civil Engineering / related field, or suitable time served status.
- Lead, Inspire and Develop Your Team: Demonstrate an ability to lead and develop engineers, apprentices, and graduates, fostering a culture of learning and development.
About Us
Our team is dedicated to enhancing the lives of Stockport’s 300,000 residents through diverse transportation and infrastructure projects. We handle investigations, feasibility studies, data analysis, policy development, scheme design, sustainable travel initiatives, and road safety. Working closely with developers, designers, contractors, and Councillors, we deliver projects that meet the Council's Corporate Objectives and program targets, contributing to Stockport’s strategic direction and infrastructure management.
At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.
If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Adam Meadowcroft by email: adam.meadowcroft@stockport.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role
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Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.
Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://www.greater.jobs/our-guaranteed-assessment-scheme
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