Permanent

Senior Engineer

Camden Council

Camden Council

Senior Engineer

Job reference: LBC02532
Contract: Fixed Term Contract Secondment
Working pattern: Full Time
Grade: Level 4 Zone 2
Salary: £39,243 - £45,520
Location: 5 Pancras Square
Job Type: Regeneration and Planning

Senior Design Engineers Design experts needed to deliver Camden’s transport priorities

Working for a forward thinking borough, we’re looking for likeminded Senior Design Engineers to come and join our innovative and creative team of design engineers. You’ll play a key role in the development, monitoring and review of scheme designs, programmes and projects for transport planning, traffic and parking within the Transport Strategy Service. You’ll provide expert technical advice at a high level on matters of scheme design, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and which deliver against council policies and priorities including improving road safety and encouraging greater levels of sustainable and active travel.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute towards and shape interesting and challenging projects which will influence what the rest of London does and like us you won’t be afraid of trying out new ways of doing things.

About you

Your background could be an engineering degree or equivalent with post qualification experience in a senior position. Alternatively you’ll have corporate membership or incorporated status of a recognised professional engineering institution with significant post qualification experience. With proven ability to produce highway designs using CAD, you’ll have vast experience of design and project management for schemes of significant size, value and complexity including budget management. To contribute towards an improved service, you’ll need a broad understanding of the key responsibilities and issues facing local government and have a clear understanding of highway design in an urban environment including design criteria, specifications and standards. You should be confident with participating in negotiations at a high level and be able to provide technical input with developers when required. Your success depends on having a can-do attitude, collaborative working style, and excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills to express complex information accurately and concisely.

About us

Camden’s main offices are located in modern award winning offices at King’s Cross. You can expect an exceptional range of benefits including discounted access to the onsite leisure facilities with swimming pool, recognition and reward for high performance with progression and pay increases, flexible and agile working hours and access to a leading pension scheme.

Camden is proud to be the country’s first Timewise council and as part of this accreditation, we work to help parents balance work with childcare. This fits in with our aim to be leaders in innovative flexible and part-time working that allows for different patterns of care and for parents to share childcare responsibilities.

You can see full details of our excellent benefits at www.togetherwearecamden.com

Make it work for you. Make it your Camden.

Discover and diversity
To “discover” more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit our recruitment website:
http://www.togetherwearecamden.com/pages/diversity-and-equality/

How to apply

To apply for this job please follow the "Apply" link. In the ‘Why you?’ section of the application form you will be expected to explain how you meet the key requirements for this role listed in this advert. When explaining how you meet each of the requirements, please give examples that clearly demonstrate your skills, knowledge and experience. When writing your examples give a brief description of the situation or task but focus on the actions you took and the result of your actions.

Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as inclusive as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for people who have a disability or long-term health condition. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, or provide any information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at [email protected], or post to 5 Pancras Square, London N1C 4AG.

Closing dates for applications: 30 June 2017 at 23:59 pm.
Interviews to be held: w/c 17 July 2017.
Please quote ref: LBC02532.



Overview

  • Location: London
  • Job Title: Senior Engineer
  • Salary: £39,243 - £45,520
  • Closed: 30 Jun 2017

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