Highways & Traffic Senior Engineer - Public Sector

Placed: 02/12/17
Region: United Kingdom
Category: Jobs


Content of the advertisement:

Job Title: Highways & Traffic Senior Engineer Public Sector
Sector: Public Sector / Local Authority
Location: N. London
Duration: 3 6 Months
Remuneration: £24:00 per hour

The Client is a North London Local Authority who have an immediate need for an experienced Civil / Highways & Traffic Engineer who will be required to take responsible for the Traffic and Safety/Engineering/Highways & Energy Management and for providing a specialist professional engineering service dealing in one or more of the specialist areas of work within the Service:

Traffic and Safety
Engineering
Highways

To deputise for the Principal Engineer/Team Manager as required, ensuring service management team decisions are carried out as appropriate.

To assist in providing, maintaining, developing, designing, implementing and pro-actively improving the services provided by the Service accord with Council policy and in particular:
Are efficiently and effectively discharged with the active participation of the local community, the voluntary sector, business and specialist groups as appropriate using appropriate consultative techniques.
Are accessible to all members of the community and geared resources to their needs.
Are of a high quality commensurate with available resources and represent value for money in meeting the Customer and Client expectations and requirements.
To progress and secure the effective project management of assigned projects through all stages from conception through to implementation and monitoring. To undertake the role of Project Manager for multi-disciplined projects including consultation, programming, planning and co-ordination.
To co-ordinate, prioritise work, establish work programmes and schedules for the assigned functional areas of work and ensuring their achievement and providing or securing technical guidance and training as necessary in this connection.
To develop, design, consult, progress and implement measures to assist, enhance, maintain and promote the use of the highway network and infrastructure and be responsible for ensuring information and administrative support is provided for statutory functions under the Highway Act 1980 and associated legislation and functions under supervision.
To assist in the analysis of service requirements and the development, review and monitoring of performance indicators by which the quality, efficiency and cost effectiveness of the Team or Service is demonstrated.
To conform to the Councils quality standards and policies, Acts of Parliament, Statutory Instruments, Standing Orders, Service and Departmental Office Manuals, Financial Regulations, Contract Management and Administration systems and procedures, etc.
To assist in production, development and review of contracts, technical codes of practice and the tendering process from pre-feasibility to post-implementation reviews for the assigned functional areas of responsibility.
To assist in the management and administration of consultants, the preparation of consultants briefs, the evaluation of tenders and reviewing consultants performance in relation to the assigned functional areas of responsibility.
To assist in providing or securing the provision of technical advice on all matters covered by the assigned functional areas within the Service.
To maintain a thorough working knowledge of national and international traffic and engineering policies, trends and initiatives, and to use creative thinking to introduce their practical application within the Borough.
To assist in the preparation, maintenance, review, monitoring, and ensuring adherence to such Service Level Agreements as are in force or are required by the team.
To assist in preparing Revenue and Capital Budget estimates, and to report, manage, adjust, programme and control expenditure, both on individual projects and on specific areas of expenditure for which the Team is responsible employing financial systems to monitor spend throughout the year ensuring budgetary control.
To exploit every opportunity for the funding of projects, identifying potential schemes, and carrying out feasibility and economic appraisal, with a view to levering in funds from both the private and public sector.
To deal with complex and difficult telephone enquiries on matters with political or public relations implications, and to comply with the Councils Telephone Code of Practice.
To produce papers and reports for Council Committees, and other bodies and to ensure the quality and content of all reports produced by members of the Team, and to present such reports at Committees and other venues as required including local consultative groups, residents organisations and meetings and to give evidence as necessary at public inquiries.
To assist in the management and supervision of all staff involved in work associated with contracts, and with directly delivered services in the Section, including the formulation and prioritisation of work programmes, and the establishing and achieving of realistic targets, and the operation of an appraisal system.
To follow the Councils systems for the implementation of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations within the Service, maintaining and reviewing monitoring systems aimed at ensuring CDM requirements.
To comply with the operating procedural requirements defined within the Quality Assurance system; maintaining, reviewing, developing and improving the Teams procedures, and monitoring performance output against indicators.
To ensure that all necessary steps are taken to assist or undertake the responsibilities under the New Roads and Street Works Act.
To assist in identifying IT needs for all the assigned functional areas within the Service and, where appropriate, in liaison with the Departments Information Systems Development Team the specification, procurement, implementation and maintenance of such IT systems

Benefits: Paid Weekly

Price / Salary: £21 - £24/hour Paid Weekly