Principal Engineer Highway Maintenance and Improvements
Date posted – 18/03/2021
Application closing date – 02/05/2021
Location – Keynsham
Salary – £39,880 – £42,821 per annum
Job category/type – Engineering (Highways), Environmental, Highways, Transport
Attachments – Principal Engineer Highway Maintenance and Improvements 50845a & Schedule.docx
Hours: 37 per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Service Area: Environmental Services
Department: Highways and Traffic
Are you an enthusiastic individual looking for fresh challenges in a forward thinking Highway and Traffic Service? If so, your application is invited for the key post of Principal Engineer Highway Maintenance & Improvements based out of our Civic Centre offices in Keynsham near Bristol.
Working as part of a busy Highway Maintenance and Drainage Team, you will:
- Manage the planning and delivery of annual carriageway and footway resurfacing/surface treatment capital programmes of work.
- Work with colleagues to manage and deliver an innovative and consistent highway asset management approach.
- Integrate with supply chain partners and consultants to ensure timely and cost affective delivery of works.
- Develop a small professional team in effective delivery of annual programmes ensuring engagement with all stakeholders across the all areas.
Being enthusiastic and keen to work and develop a one team approach both within the service and corporately will be essential.
Your main place of work will be the award-winning, modern Civic Centre in Keynsham, halfway between Bath and Bristol, easily accessible via car or public transport, with a train station 5 minutes walk away.
Interested to find out more?
If you are interested in this post and require more details after reading the job description or just to chat through the role and what’s involved, please contact Craig Jackson, Team Manager, on 07980998540.
To apply
Please use the online application facility here.
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We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.
Please note the Council operates a policy of prior consideration for roles for any individual on the Council’s at risk register. This means should a redeployee express an interest in this role, providing they meet the essential criteria for the role, they will be interviewed before any shortlisting or interviewing of external candidates.
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