Senior Engineer - Transport Development Control

What will you be doing?

• In the role you will offer specialist transportation and highways advice for planning applications including major sites. This advice will consider the safety of all road and highway users, travel sustainability, accessibility and adherence with local and national policies.
• You will liaise with National Highways, Network Rail, West of England Combined Authority, and with other stakeholders and partners across the West of England and external developers for any development related delivery of transport solutions.
• Formulating planning documents for major development sites, you will oversee the commissioning of transportation advice and evidence where needs are demonstrated to be necessary, and with agreement of its funding by the developer.
• You will apply appropriate policy in consideration of development impacts and negotiate potential mitigations for planning terms together with developer funding.
• In the role you will present transportation evidence to Council Members and answer any related questions at planning and other Committees. Where required, you will form and present transport evidence at Planning Appeals and Public Inquiries
• You will highlight any issues relating to budgets not funded by developers, provide financial information and resources for your developments, so that agreed targets are met, reports are prepared and delivered, there is efficient use of Council resources and value for money is maximised.
• It will be your responsibility to produce information reports and analyse complex data for customers so that customers receive accurate, up to date reports and data that fulfil statutory requirements.

• It is essential that you have a relevant professional or equivalent degree level qualification, or you will have equivalent relevant experience. e.g. BSc or B Eng in Engineering or Transport related equivalent.
• You must be able to demonstrate a good understanding of highway and transport infrastructure and the factors that influences its design, with significant experience within a large organisation, delivering similar services within public or private sector transportation consultancy.
• You will have an extensive knowledge and experience of contributing to developing processes, procedures for transportation projects and be able to work flexibly, cope with competing demands through good time management and work under pressure.
• It is essential that you have well-developed interpersonal skills to influence positve solutions and be able to build relationships and communicate effectively with customers.
• You will be able to understand and interpret complex data and provide solutions and recommendations to achieve appropriate outcomes with good analytical, numeracy and reasoning skills.
• It is key that you have a good level of general IT skills, the ability to interpret complex information in spreadsheets, and the ability to interpret the outputs from specialist software packages related to transportation (e.g. TEMPRO, TRICS, ARCADY, PICADY and LinSig).

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.  

• We’re providing essential services across our internal network to ensure we can fully support our community.   
• We’re positive and forward thinking, always looking for new and innovative ways of working work and we’re ambitious about the future.  

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.   
   
We’re making a difference, be part of it!