Senior Engineer Traffic Management Orders and Network Duties
- Salary: GBP49,083 - GBP 52,116 Grade: PO5
- Hours per Week: 36
- Nature of Employment: Permanent
- DBS Required: None
- Location: Hounslow House, 7 Bath Road, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW3 3EB.
About us at Hounslow
We would love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet, and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix, and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity, and inclusion at its very heart. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce, and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
Our Benefits
If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these on our website.
About the Engineer Role
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Traffic, Transport & Parking Team as a Senior Engineer: Traffic Management Orders and Network Duties. In this role, you'll primarily be responsible for leading the composition and proofing of permanent and experimental traffic management orders. Experience with map-based systems is required, with ParkMap being the current system in use at LBH. Experience in evolving TMO processes to a fully map-based arrangement is preferable as the current arrangement is paper and map-based. There is direct line management responsibility for the Traffic Order Writer, and supporting and developing their role is required. Additional scope within this role will be to assist in the development, implementation, and evaluation of local and strategic highway improvement schemes, providing opportunities to develop your skills in people management, traffic engineering, and project management.
About the Team You’ll Be Working In
You will be part of the Council’s Capital Projects & Network Management team, working within multi-disciplinary project teams that break down departmental barriers to ensure the delivery of transformational projects that support achieving the Council’s corporate and transport objectives.
About You
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to apply:
Knowledge and Experience:
- Extensive experience in drafting, proofing, and processing of experimental and permanent traffic management orders, special events notices, and temporary traffic orders in accordance with all legal and statutory requirements, primarily without supervision.
- Experience in managing works programming and forward planning.
- Experience in successfully dealing with multiple stakeholders.
- Knowledge and understanding of relevant legislation/statutory powers and duties, and codes of practice affecting the work of the section.
- Experience in transforming paper and map-based orders into fully mapped platforms.
- Experience of managing and motivating staff ensuring clear performance management.
Skills and Abilities:
- Proficient and advanced use of map-based inventory for parking and moving traffic regulations (i.e., ParkMap, Appyway).
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of Traffic Management Orders and the processes involved.
- Ability to investigate and design a traffic management proposal in accordance with all statutory regulations and best practice guidance.
- Ability to manage budgets and financial information without supervision.
- Excellent written communication skills; ability to prepare reports, programmes, and provide high-quality relevant advice to other officers, Councillors, public, and other key stakeholders.
- Competent with various IT packages including ParkMap, Microsoft Office applications (inc. MS Project), AutoCAD, and GIS skills are desirable.
- Ability to help train and motivate staff members reporting to this role.
Personal Style and Behaviours:
- An open and approachable manner that allows the postholder to engage positively with colleagues, stakeholders, and partners to drive project delivery successfully.
- A team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Qualifications:
Relevant technical qualifications, HNC/HND/Degree, or equivalent experience.
When Interviews Will Be Held and Who to Contact
Engineer closing date is 12th September 2024.
Interviews for this job will be held from the week commencing Monday 16th September 2024.
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