Traffic Management & Road Safety Assistant – Network Strategy (Highways)
Grade G to H
Salary: £24,948 to £30,151
Location: County wide (one of our area offices) with the expectation to travel to Northallerton for monthly meetings. Site Visits are required.
Permanent
Are you currently undertaking year 1 of Civil Engineering HND/C in Civil Engineering or equivalent or achieved first year on HND/C in Civil Engineering and willing to continue to year 2 of the qualification? Or are you interested in Engineering and looking for a role that would fund your qualification?
We are looking for an Assistant Engineer to join our Traffic Engineering team.
Our Service
The Traffic Engineering Team forms part of the Network Strategy Group within the Highways and Transportation Service Unit. The core function is to deliver capital funded local safety schemes to reduce the number and severity of casualties arising from road collisions, to undertake road safety audits on highway improvements and carry out fatal collision inspections and reports. We also produce and update traffic management and road safety engineering policy, improve the efficiency of traffic signal installations in North Yorkshire by addressing congestion and safety issues at problem locations, maintain and improve the condition of existing traffic signals installations and monitor performance of the traffic signals maintenance contractor and provide parking expertise and lead on the delivery of high profile parking projects.
The role
As our assistant engineer you will identify and develop Local Safety and Collision Prevention Schemes and to undertake Road Safety Audits and Fatal Collision Inspections. Contribute to the preparation and consultation of design of schemes within the Integrated Transport Capital Programme, assist, as necessary with the design of traffic engineering measures, including traffic signals, traffic management and parking studies, contribute to the preparation of traffic sign design and schedules, and assist in ensuring schemes comply with the Local Transport Plan and supplementary documents.
What you will bring
To be successful you must have:
Grade G
· Working knowledge of legislation relating to traffic signs and lines and traffic calming.
· Experience in Collision investigation studies and safety schemes including traffic calming.
· Demonstrable experience within a highways related role
· Experience in the use of ACAD
· Undertaken year 1 of Civil Engineering HND/C in Civil Engineering or equivalent.
Grade H (in addition to Grade G)
· Working knowledge of legislation relating to traffic signs and lines and traffic calming.
· Collision investigation studies and safety schemes including traffic calming.
· An understanding of local government administrative and financial procedures.
· Experience in the use of CAD
· ONC in Civil Engineering or equivalent
· Achieved first year on HND/C in Civil Engineering and willing to continue to year 2 of the qualification.
Ideally, we are looking for someone who has undertaken year 1 of Civil Engineering HND/C but if you are interested in qualifying as an Engineer we will support you with your qualification.
Due to the nature of this role there will be some travel required – for this you must be able to drive.
Working for us.
When you join us, you are entitled to our outstanding benefits and wellbeing plan as part of your position. Our holiday entitlement starts at 24 days rising to 33 days per year with continued service, plus public holidays. Up to 10 days extra leave can be purchased at any time & you can also bank your additional time as flexi, find the right balance that works for you with our hybrid working. Pension: save for your retirement with our generous local government pension scheme with a 22.6% contribution from NYCC. Fitness & Rewards: Fitness discounts with various Gyms across the county. Stay on top of your game and save £££. Lifestyle Savings: explore a huge range of discounts to help you save money across hundreds of the UK’s favourite high-street and online retailers. Payroll Pay: salary sacrifice schemes such as: Car scheme, Salary Finance, Cycle to work, Technology. Spread the cost from your monthly salary. And of course, we will support your engineering qualification.
Contact and apply
If you would like to learn more about our fantastic opportunity please contact contact David Kirkpatrick on 0797 050 9194 for an informal conversation.
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Key dates:
Closing date: Sunday 29th January 2023
Interview date: week commencing 6th February 2023
NYCC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.