FULL TIME

Ringway Jacobs is looking for an enthusiastic and talented assistant engineer to join our Development Management team, working on the Essex Highways Integrated Services contract in partnership with Essex County Council.
The key purpose of the role is to apply your skills to lead and undertake Technical Assurance of developer-designed schemes, providing a first-class service delivering the planned works and ensuring that the challenges of delivering the vision and priorities of the County Council/Essex Highways are met.

Ensure design and construction of developer’s highway infrastructure works (both new highway and improvements to the existing highway) are acceptable to the Highway Authority for adoption as public highway and maintainable at the public expense.

For all highway works associated with new developments:

• Assist the Highway Authority with consultations with the Local Planning Authority for proposed developments
• Agree detailed designs and ensure planning permission conditions/obligations are met
• Attend/ Chair Meetings
• Answer site queries / design queries in a timely manner
• Extensive stakeholder liaison (both internal and external)
• Ensure statutory processes are followed as required if necessary
• Learn how to instruct the legal agreements to enable developers infrastructure works to be adopted as public highway
• Provide timely and accurate advice to County Councillors, District Members, Parish Councils and the general public on all highway-related matters as required.
• Provide assistance to the Senior Engineer in relation to all aspects covered within the group