Principal Highway Drainage Engineer
- Employer
- Telford & Wrekin Council
- Location
- Addenbrooke House, Telford
- Salary
- £32,910 - £35,745
- Closing date
- 30 Apr 2021
- Reference
- TWC000004549
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- Sector
- Local Councils
- Job Type
- Highways / Transport / Traffic
- Contract Type
- Full time permanent
- Working Pattern
- Flexible hours
- Hours
- Full-Time
Job Details
Principal Highway Drainage Engineer
£32,234 - £34,728 per annum
NJC PO3
37 hours per week
Do have a detailed knowledge of highways drainage systems? Do you want to take a leading role maintaining a large network of assets? If so, this is your opportunity to be part of our dynamic team maintaining our highways drainage assets and managing highways flood risk in the borough.
This is a role in Telford & Wrekin Council’s Drainage & Flood Risk Team with responsibility for managing our highways drainage assets. You will be working with contractors to ensure maintenance schedules are delivered and will be identifying capital improvement schemes to manage highways flood risk. We are halfway through an exercise to cleanse and collect data on all 33,000 gullies in the borough to inform a risk based maintenance responsibility so you will work closely with our Term Service Contractor to complete and implement this new strategy using systems like Confirm and Kaarbontech. You will have a strong customer focus and be able to work quickly and efficiently to solve problems and communicate solutions to internal and external parties.
We are looking for degree qualified candidates with demonstrable experience relating to drainage maintenance in a Local Authority setting. You will be responsible for all aspects of Highways Drainage Maintenance including strategy, scheduled and reactive maintenance as well as budget management, customer and contractor liaison. You will be able to use drainage software have experience working as a designer and supervisor for drainage schemes with experience in NEC3. You must be able to provide your own transport with insurance for business use to allow travel to sites and to respond to issues. You will work in a team of engineers and flood risk officers on a variety of tasks in the borough and will deliver a package of schemes as part of the Council’s 4 year investment programme to Protect, Care and Invest in our borough. You should be and able to work autonomously for extended periods of time in all weather conditions.
Telford a new town has its roots in the 1960s but this doesn’t mean we’re stuck in the past. Over the last 50 years the town has grown and developed into a hub of innovation and investment. Telford & Wrekin Council is ambitious, always looking to develop, improve and attract investment. The Council has recently experienced a high frequency of severe weather events which has triggered significant additional investment into our drainage assets. The team are involved in a number of exciting projects including a Natural Flood Management pilot, Urban SuDS, Reservoir Improvements, desilting projects and are progressing bids for further investment programmes over the next 6 years which could involve mines water heating and management, property flood resilience, community flood defence, IoT, engagement and water storage. We are now in the second year of our Pride in Our Community £55m investment programme, will you be part of shaping it?
For further information on the role please click on the job description and person specification which is available below.
Along with your application please also submit a supporting statement outlining how you meet the Person Specification
For an informal discussion, please contact Lucinda Lycett at lucinda.lycett@telford.gov.uk
Please complete the online application form as CVs will not be accepted.
We are committed to equality and diversity.
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Telford & Wrekin Council is an award winning council, and we were recognised as Local Authority of the Year 2022 at the Municipal Journal Awards, and the Association for Public Service Excellence Council of the Year in 2021.
At Team Telford we work hard to protect, care and invest to create a better borough and our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Having the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles allows us to deliver the excellent services that residents and businesses on the borough expect from us.
Our friendly and passionate teams are trusted by leaders and managers to deliver this ambition. We invest and nurture our workforce and support our employees to develop and thrive. The better we are the bigger difference we make to the people we serve.
In return we also offer a great range of benefits including competitive salaries, flexible working hours and work arrangements, employee discounts, salary sacrifice schemes, a local government pension scheme and generous annual leave entitlement.
At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice and we know we are stronger and better connected as a result.
We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and where our data shows that specific groups are under-represented within our workforce, our adverts will actively encourage applications from these groups.
We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities or other health conditions. You can find out more about this and our ‘guaranteed interview scheme’ here
You can also read more about our Recruitment and Selection Policy commitments and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders here
If you are unable to complete an online application form please contact the HR helpdesk on 01952 383601 or email hrhelpdesk@telford.gov.uk
- Website
- http://www.telford.gov.uk/
- Telephone
- 01952 380000
- Location
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Telford & Wrekin Council
Darby House
Lawn Central
Telford
Shropshire
TF3 4JA
United Kingdom
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