Working Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Additional Payments: Casual Car User
Closing Date: 10 December 2024
This role is subject to -
Qualification -
● Chartered or Incorporated Engineer with a relevant institution membership or working towards.
● Or Hold an undergraduate degree or MSc in a relevant engineering discipline
● Or full Membership of a relevant Institution
● Or hold a HNC / HND in Engineering or relevant equivalent
● And have relevant highway engineering experience
Registration - Chartered or Incorporated Engineer with a relevant institution membership or working towards.
Casual Car Documentation - The successful candidate will be a designated Casual Car User which means that car journeys may be necessary on an occasional basis, but are not essential to the role. If you do drive, you must always hold a full valid driving licence and provide your own car for use at work, as well as provide all the appropriate documentation. You will receive an allowance per mile of business use.
The Team
The Statutory Approvals Highways team are an expanding team within the Highways Service at Manchester City Council. The team helps to lead an innovative, forward thinking technical consultancy function for the assigned service area, ensuring that solutions are delivered in line with customer and legislative requirements in relation to Section 38 and Section 278 of the Highways Act 1980.
The team are responsible for a diverse and challenging work programme, so you can expect to get involved with work that contribute to the areas below:
- Providing technical advice and expertise to developers and planners in designing appropriate highway schemes based on current design guidance in relation to Section 38 and Section 278 of the Highways Act 1980 and to ensure all developments which affect the highway infrastructure are to a high standard.
- Ensuring that permitted development is controlled in a fashion which complements the existing infrastructure and minimises impact on services in the area while working toward a Safe and Sustainable highway network.
- Using Highway Design experience including aspects of drainage design including SuDS, to provide a more sustainable highway network for future generations.
- Providing technical advice on kerbing, road & footway surfacing and construction phasing including site supervision.
The Role
This is an excellent opportunity for experienced Highway Engineers to join our team and play a role in some of the most exciting and prestigious development projects across Manchester. The candidate will have extensive Highway Engineering experience including the design and implementation of highways schemes, in order to provide advice to planners and developers on technical detail and material specification.
You will take a role within a team of expert engineers and technicians, and work closely with colleagues from various disciplines to manage the delivery of technically-excellent, highways schemes.
The candidate will provide technical advice and expertise to developers and planners on highway design proposals in relation to Section 38 and Section 278 of the Highways Act 1980 and to ensure all developments which affect the highway infrastructure are to a high standard.
To ensure that permitted development is controlled in a fashion which complements the existing infrastructure and minimises impact on services in the area while working toward a Safe and Sustainable highway network.
The Skills
You will have technical qualifications and a portfolio of experience demonstrating your quality and client focussed approach, will have consistently demonstrated your ability to manage multiple projects, mentor and develop less experienced engineers, provide management cover when required and have a passion for creative and intuitive design.
You will have extensive Highway Design experience including aspects of drainage design including SuDS, kerbing, road & footway surfacing and construction phasing including site supervision experience.
Have knowledge of contract management, compensation event, programme management.
Have significant experience in use of CAD design.
Knowledge of Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs) and the Legal processes involved would be considered a benefit.
Knowledge of S247 and S257 of the Highways Act 1980 would also be considered a benefit
Your benefits will include:
Helping our employees achieve a healthy work-life balance is important to us. If you join Manchester City Council, as well as receiving a competitive salary, you’ll also have the opportunity to explore flexible working arrangements. Core benefits include 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing to 30), generous pension scheme, life assurance and MCR+ discounts
You’ll also be able to give back to communities with up to three days paid volunteering days each year.
We’re the local government authority for Manchester, and have teams across the city helping to make this a great place to live for everyone. We’re proud to do local government differently, in a city with an international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion.
When you join us, you’re joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality. Whatever your role, you’ll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and helping to build a Manchester that's fairer for everyone who lives, works, volunteers, studies or plays here.
To make our ambition a reality, every person we recruit needs to play their its part. It takes a certain type of behaviour, attitude and way of working to get Manchester where it wants to be. Our people and partners have agreed five ‘behaviours’ – the grounding for how we must work together and treat one another:
- We take time to listen and understand
- We work together and trust each other
- We show that we value our differences and treat each other fairly
- We ‘own it’ and we’re not afraid to try new things
- We’re proud and passionate about Manchester
A career with us means you can be yourself, thrive, and build the career your talent and ambition deserve.
Creating an inclusive team at Manchester City Council
At Manchester City Council, we strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. If you want to find out more about the role, our culture, flexible arrangements or any adjustments, please let us know by emailing jobs@manchester.gov.uk. If you are invited to interview we will ask you if you require any adjustments in order for you to best demonstrate your suitability for the role in the interview process.
If you would like to access the job details in another format, such as large print, audio or printed on a coloured paper, please email jobs@manchester.gov.uk or call 0161 227 3373.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
Accessibility
As a Disability Confident Employer, we provide support for employees with physical or mental-health conditions, a disability or neurodiversity. Our workplaces are accessible by design, and we make workplace adjustments including providing aids, adaptations and equipment. These, combined with our flexible working policies such as disability-related leave, enable our employees to perform their role, thrive and be their authentic selves in work.
We’ve also included some useful tips on how to submit the best application.
When you join us
We want everyone to be able to be themselves at work and give their best. If you need additional support to undertake the duties of the role, we’ll make every effort to source any necessary aids, adaptations or equipment. If, however, any task proves to be unachievable, we will look at redesigning parts of the role.
Other relevant information
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
Our Manchester Strategy/Behaviours.pdf
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