Senior Engineer - Planning, Transportation & Highways - Bradford - ref. y2647415
What's involved with this role:
Interim Senior Engineer - Planning, Transportation & Highways
Job Ref: Bradford 5254301Pay Rate: £38.96 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 2 months
City: BRADFORD
Carry out feasibility and concept studies, public engagement and consultation, design, inspections, assessments, procurement, construction supervision and project
management on a variety of highway, structural, casualty reduction, traffic management, traffic signal and UTC, integrated transport, public transport and civil engineering projects for programmes undertaken by the service on behalf of internal and external clients.
Support and advise elected members of Council and MPs as the accountable
representatives of the public and other key stakeholders and to support the Principal
Engineer in the performance of functions associated with the servicing of Council and
other committees, neighbourhood forums and public engagement events.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide independent judgement, advice and guidance based on evaluation and analytical skills to produce alternative solutions to a wide range of complex engineering and procurement problems, formulate recommendations and solutions appropriate to technical specialism including, but not limited to, the provision of advice related to improvements secured through legal agreements with third parties.
Undertake and certify the acceptance of technical checks of engineering information provided by third parties as being in accordance with established standards and Council requirements.Carry out investigations, feasibility studies, concept designs, transportation studies, transport assessments, sustainable and integrated transport studies of alternative solutions to engineering and procurement problems as required including such schemes as may arise from the Local Transport Plan, revenue budgets and other external funding sources.
Prepare feasibility designs, calculations, budget estimates, outline programmes, project briefs, work instructions and commissions forConsultants or other Service units as appropriate in line with established Contract Standing Orders using framework arrangements or specific commissions.
Oversee and/or carry out the detailed design of civil, structural and highway engineering schemes including schemes
Lead the procurement, award and administration of contracts according to role within the service and the supervision of construction, including undertaking checks for compliance with safety requirements, conditions of contract, drawings and specification and the issuing of instructions to this end.Prepare and issue orders under various term contracts and/or specific tender documentation to tenderers. Undertake the processing of site measure, negotiation and settlement of claims, resolution of contractual issues, payments and preparation of final accounts and variation orders in accordance with the contract terms and the Council’s Standing Orders and Financial Regulations.
Act as the Engineer’s Representative or equivalent in contractual matters related to civil engineering works including undertaking the supervision, inspection, monitoring and management of allocated construction projects ensuring compliance with documentation with regard to quality, methods of working etc.
Undertake checking and evaluation
Manage and contribute to the leadership of all necessary data acquisition, inspections, surveys and assessments in connection with role and undertake investigations appropriate to area of expertise including where appropriate with other public bodies.Prepare high quality written documents, statistical analysis and correspondence and maintain such manual or computerised records as necessary for the efficient and accountable operation of the Service.
Be fully aware of the political dimension of a local authority and be responsive to the legitimate interests of local ward members, committees and subcommittees.Establish effective, courteous and responsive lines of communication with Members, thirds parties, the community, the press etc. to keep all clearly informed of priorities, targets and progress. Act as liaison between external parties and other internal units.
Maintain manual and computerised records of all correspondence and actions.Ensure that appropriate Road Safety Audits or Checks are undertaken on all allocated projects in accordance with Service standards. Undertake road safety and similar audits and road safety reviews where appropriate to do so.
Qualifications:
Incorporated Engineer (I.Eng)
HNC/D in Civil Engineering (pre-1999 intake) or related discipline OR BSc (Hons) in Civil Engineer (post 1999 intake) OR NVQ Level 6 in Civil Engineering OR other qualification certified by the Engineering Council UK as academic base for Incorporated Engineer status
Knowledge:
Demonstrate understanding in the use of technical software appropriate to the role (eg Micro Drainage, Hydro Works, AutoCAD, Aimsum, SATURN, PICADY, ARCADY, LinSig)Demonstrate understanding of working in a highway engineering design office environment
Demonstrate understanding of carrying out highways construction and maintenance
Demonstrate understanding of Local Transport Plan process
Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Skills & Abilities:
Demonstrate project planning and management skills.Able to assimilate and apply complex and detailed information and relay it to customers
Able to work flexibly to accommodate the needs of the service
Able to drive and have knowledge of Bradford area and road network
Able to make practical application of traffic and road safety legislation (e.g. Highways Act 1980, Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, Road Traffic Act 1988)Able to identify, develop and design Traffic and Road Safety and Transportation Improvement Schemes.
Able to analyse and interpret traffic related data (flow, speed, accidents etc.) when appraising and designing schemes.
Ability to work to a high standard of detail to check the work of others to ensure that all necessary internal and technical requirements have been met.
Able to use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) e.g. MapInfo.
Able to use standard IT packages to produce technical drawings e.g. Autocad
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms.We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
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Job Ref: Bradford 5254301
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