Senior Engineer (Intelligent Transport Systems)

Locations: Bristol, Guildford, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester

Salary: £40,188 - £44,208

Your new role

As a Senior Intelligent Transport Systems Engineer, you will act as a source of expertise to provide appropriate advice and guidance to Highways England, its contractors and suppliers. Working at a national level, you will have responsibility for the development and implementation of policies and standards to support the development and maintenance of Highways England’s electrical assets across a variety of projects.

Developing and applying your understanding of the relevant statutory requirements, external standards and good design principles. You will also be providing advice on power distribution and energy network connections for nationally significant infrastructure projects like the Lower Thames Crossing and A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down.

What you’ll be leading on

• Providing accurate, practical and timely technical advice (including reviews and governance) to support colleagues in resolving technical issues, focusing particularly on power distribution and network connection.
• Internal and external stakeholder engagement to promote and gain commitment to delivering better engineering outcomes, identify key areas for improvement and contribute to development of policies and standards.
• Technical assurance, assuring that the standards and advice deliver the outcomes expected.
• The opportunity to work with external organisations across the UK to represent Highways England at stakeholder groups.

To be successful

• Ability to collaborate with a range of stakeholders and colleagues in an electrical engineering environment to positively influence desired outcomes, and deal constructively with challenges.
• Previous experience of developing and implementing policy, standards or best practices.
• Demonstrable experience of applying engineering judgement to appraise and recommend potential solutions to engineering problems.
• Experience of the successful delivery of projects or change programmes, including the establishment of project governance in line with recognised project management principles.
• An understanding of highway design principles and sound knowledge of relevant standards such as DMRB and the Energy Networks Associations industry documents.
• Relevant background in electrical engineering. Preferred qualification is BSc or HNC as a minimum or experience of power supply systems and IET wiring regulations (18th edition qualified).
• Membership of a related professional institution and on the way or already incorporated engineer or equivalent.

A bit about us

Safety, Engineering and Standards (SES) is an exciting place to work. SES key priorities are to support world class operational delivery and technical advice for our road network, provide support services to lead, enable and innovate in the development of the Strategic Road Network and provide expert advice on matters relating to health and safety.

If you are looking for a challenging and exhilarating new role within a large client organisation within the infrastructure sector, then join our Operational Technologies Technical Assurance team at Highways England.

Want to know more?

Take a look at our role profile here.

Interviews will take place  January 2020.

Why you should join us

At Highways England we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this.  We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

So if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it – then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation

Our vision is that everyone who uses our roads, as well as those who work for us, get home, safe and well. Our Home Safe and Well approach sets out our commitments and how our employees can contribute.

Working for us, you’ll recognise the behaviours required to achieve our vision, and help create a fair and just culture for us all. You should be able to fully understand the hazards and risks that are involved in your work, and follow our procedures safely.

We want you to feel able to raise health, safety and wellbeing concerns with your colleagues, and to challenge unsafe conditions or behaviours wherever you see them. We’re always seeking to improve our performance, and want you to be at the heart of that - helping us all get home safe and well.

And finally

We reserve the right to close before the advertised closing date, so we recommend completing your application as soon as possible.