Senior Engineer – Feasibility and Client Team
| Posting date: | 29 April 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 May 2026 |
| Location: | Stockport, SK1 3XE |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75804591 |
Summary
Senior Engineer Feasibility and Client Team
SO1-SO3 (£34,434 - £45,091)
37 Hours, Full Time
Permanent
Hybrid: Stopford House minimum 2 days per week and homeworking
Application Deadline: 31 May 2026
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: 4 June 2026
Interview Date: 16 June 2026
Interview Type: In Person
Join us at Stockport Council MJ Local Authority of the Year 2025
Your Role
This is a great opportunity to be part of a friendly hard-working team. As a Senior Engineer in our Feasibility and Client Team you will develop and oversee delivery of a wide range of projects including sustainable travel schemes and main road projects. Our current schemes range from several major projects such as CRSTS packages to develop an A6 Bus Radials Programme along with several schemes around Town Centre West, as well as being awarded DfT funding to develop and deliver a package of improvements to the A34 corridor as part of their Major Route Networks programme, to a number of smaller projects such as walking and cycling access improvement schemes which include traffic calming schemes, 20mph speed limits, footpath upgrades, cycling schemes, junction improvements and developing new pedestrian crossings. You will work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver these projects. Every project is different and includes unique challenges that will enable you to develop key engineering skills.
Key tasks:
- Lead, manage and prepare design plans for a range of major and complex highways and transportation schemes of various types and sizes.
- Progress feasibility studies and feasibility design for schemes from initial concept to business case submission.
- Request and analyse surveys, undertake site investigations, complete risk assessments and compile pre-construction information.
- Produce public consultation materials and attend public consultation events.
- Produce Committee and Cabinet Member reports with supporting documentation.
- Ensure design and construction work proceeds in accordance with the approved scheme and in accordance with relevant legislation.
- Ensure delivery of temporary, experimental and permanent traffic regulation orders whether by commissioning them or undertaking the necessary work.
- Supervise junior staff to oversee delivery of site surveys, research, analysis and interpretation of data and preparation of drawings / consultation material.
About You
We would love to hear from you if you:
- Have technical ability to design and construct safe and sustainable projects using knowledge of relevant standards and ideally ability in AutoCAD.
- Have knowledge and experience of working in a Highway or Transport Planning environment.
- Have good verbal and written communication skills with varied audiences, including internal and external stakeholders such as Councillors, the public, consultants, contractors and private developers.
- Can work in compliance with the Council’s policies and procedures and meet the councils Corporate Objectives.
- Can work collaboratively and within multi-disciplinary teams.
- Have experience of or want to learn supervision responsibilities including possible line management of junior staff.
About Us
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 Jon Gudgeon on jon.gudgeon@stockport.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.
Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not currently qualify.
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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