Principal Engineer (Street Lighting)

at  Kirklees Council

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Organisation
Kirklees
Directorate
Growth & Regeneration
Service Area
Highways & Streetscene
Hours
37
Number of Jobs
1
Location(s)
Huddersfield and surrounding areas
Position type
Permanent
Grade
Grade 10-12
Salary
£35,745 - £41,418

PE 3 & 4 PRINCIPAL ENGINEER STREETLIGHTING- STREET LIGHTING

Are you an experienced engineer looking for an opportunity to improve the lives of the local people of Huddersfield? We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join our team in the Street lighting team.
As part of this opportunity, you will be involved with managing, maintaining and upgrading the asset and delivering a significant capital LED programme. You will also be providing a street lighting design and delivery service for developers/council schemes and a good quality/high performance service to our community.

We are looking for a Principal Engineer who already has:

• A full and valid driving licence, and a willingness to undertake and pass a Kirklees Council driving assessment, or ability to use public transport, which ever method is most appropriate and cost effective.
• High level of communication skills both written and verbal.

As Principal Engineer, your key responsibilities and duties will consist of:

• Leading and managing the team to deliver the street lighting service including managing budgets and resources.
• Leading the preparation of street lighting and electrical design.
• Undertaking the relevant duty holder’s role under the Construction Regulations 2015, in particular, Designer / Principal Designer.
• Preparing estimates, technical reports, feasibility, studies, design specification and contact documents, and carry out Project management to include programming and cost monitoring.
• Preparing and producing environmental Impact awareness reports, economic assessment and business cases.
• Contributing to compliance with the Quality Management Systems including site specific audits.
• Managing and delivering the LED capital investment programme and monitoring and reporting on the associated Salix funding grant.
• Working on a daily basis with Councillors, MP’s and other stakeholders ensuring a prompt and comprehensive response.
• Engaging with clients, external partners, the councils internal construction team, Northern Power Grid and sub-contractors to provide and ensure a high quality service and performance.
• Managing the day to day street lighting inventory ensuring timely and accurate updates of the inventory so as to reflect energy savings and reduction of the carbon footprint.
• Managing and monitoring the street lighting energy budget.
• Being responsible for the wellbeing of yourself and others.

At Kirklees Council, we want to support your professional development to give you the right skills, confidence, and support to really achieve your potential. We offer a variety of courses and training designed for this exact purpose.
We value the importance of having work life balance, so therefore we offer provisions such as flexible-working, generous holiday entitlement, a variety of special leave policies and employee healthcare services.
Daniel McParland is the manager for this role, please contact them on 01484 221000 for an informal discussion, or if you need any more information.
We know there’s a wealth of talent among people who have a disability and we encourage applications from people with all differing abilities. So, if you need any support completing an application form, or any other format for the application or Job Description please contact the Recruitment Team for help by email: jobs@kirklees.gov.uk or phone: 01484 221000 and ask for ‘Recruitment’.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Closing date
28 May 2024, 11:55 PM

THIS ROLE IS INTERNALLY RESTRICTED

To apply for this job, you must meet all of the following criteria:

• Be an employee of Kirklees Council.
• Be employed by Kirklees for the duration of the recruitment process – up to and including the start date.
• Have successfully completed your probationary period.

(Please note that if you work for an Academy, you are not an employee of the Council.)
Your employment status will be checked, if you do not meet the above requirements your application will be rejected.

As Principal Engineer, your key responsibilities and duties will consist of:

• Leading and managing the team to deliver the street lighting service including managing budgets and resources.
• Leading the preparation of street lighting and electrical design.
• Undertaking the relevant duty holder’s role under the Construction Regulations 2015, in particular, Designer / Principal Designer.
• Preparing estimates, technical reports, feasibility, studies, design specification and contact documents, and carry out Project management to include programming and cost monitoring.
• Preparing and producing environmental Impact awareness reports, economic assessment and business cases.
• Contributing to compliance with the Quality Management Systems including site specific audits.
• Managing and delivering the LED capital investment programme and monitoring and reporting on the associated Salix funding grant.
• Working on a daily basis with Councillors, MP’s and other stakeholders ensuring a prompt and comprehensive response.
• Engaging with clients, external partners, the councils internal construction team, Northern Power Grid and sub-contractors to provide and ensure a high quality service and performance.
• Managing the day to day street lighting inventory ensuring timely and accurate updates of the inventory so as to reflect energy savings and reduction of the carbon footprint.
• Managing and monitoring the street lighting energy budget.
• Being responsible for the wellbeing of yourself and others