Senior Project Engineer

at  Leicester City Council

SENIOR PROJECT ENGINEER

Job description
Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
Play a key role in developing and regenerating city of Leicester.
From improving access for buses, cyclists, and pedestrians to leading innovative schemes, we’ve got plenty of exciting projects in the pipeline. And you’ll be at the heart of it. It’s about shaping Leicester’s future – helping the city to grow and succeed by planning, leading, and delivering a range of projects. And with a commitment to more investment, you’ll find lots more opportunities to increase your skills and knowledge, as you help us create a city to be proud of.
Based primarily at 90 Leycroft Road, you’ll be required to undertake site visits in and around the city. And when not needed on location you will have flexibility to work from home. Since many works are over the weekend and nights to avoid disruptions to local traffic, you’ll be able to work flexibly with paid time off in lieu. Occasionally working with Leicestershire County Council for joint procurements and schemes. You’ll be required to hold a current driving license.

You’ll carry out asset management and maintenance programming for the two biggest assets within the city boundary. From start to finish, you’ll engineer design of major highway, bridge, transport infrastructure projects. This includes planning of works, production of tenders including documentation and costings and procurement to delivery of all maintenance programmes and construction projects. You’ll lead the preparation of designs for road and bridge replacement, strengthening and maintenance schemes. Working in collaboration with the team you’ll identify and meet the objectives in compliance with quality, safety, and environmental objectives, including liaison with internal and external stakeholders. With client satisfaction being key, you’ll bring your communication skills and stakeholder management to update at meetings and represent the council. You’ll undertake and manage highway, bridges and structural engineering schemes from inspection and assessment, feasibility through to detailed design. You’ll undertake quality reviews of designs prior to issue of deliverables produced by project teams.