Contract Type : Permanent
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Worker Type: Hybrid Worker
Salary: Starting Salary is £44,711 (Level one) rising to £47,754 (Level four) per annum (pro rata for part-time)
Location: Eastcroft Depot, London Road, Nottingham NG2 3AH
We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…
Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.
In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.
* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.
About the Role
Reporting to the Highway Design Manager, there are 3 posts available for roles which will lead on Highway Design for major programmes, focusing on the assessment, coordination and management of work activities, design resources and programmes. The successful candidates will lead in the delivery of transportation and highway priorities within the Highway Design Service, ensuring projects within the team are run efficiently and within agreed deadlines and costs and are focused on citizen outcomes. This will include the effective management of third party design resources, including checking and approval of design packages, supporting in one or more of the following key design areas:
* Active Travel, including walking & cycling infrastructure
* Public Transport
* Roadspace Transformation & wider LTP portfolio
* Highway Maintenance & Area based improvements (ACF)
* Highway Structures & Bridges
About You
The ideal candidate will have:
* An engineering related degree or equivalent work experience
* Engineering or transport design related work experience
* Knowledge of designer duties required by the CDM regulations and current practice in project management principles
* Experience of leading new and innovative highway design solutions across a diverse range of specialist subjects and issues relating to the highway network
* Has a wide knowledge and working experience of current practice for the design, construction and successful delivery of highway and other civil engineering schemes
* Has taken the lead in supervising and managing professional staff in a proactive technical work environment and an ability to deal effectively with criticism or complaints from a wide audience to improve service delivery
* Skilled in resource management when delivering successful highway programmes and projects
You can find the job description for this post here
At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.
For informal enquiries please contact Ben Biddulph, Highway Design Manager, by telephone on 07985 859778 or by email at ben.biddulph@nottinghamcity.gov.uk.
Closing Date: Friday 28th March 2025
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held on dates to be agreed with successful applicants.
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