Senior Highway Adoption and Agreements Engineer

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Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About the role

North Northamptonshire is growing and evolving rapidly as a Council and as a Community.  It is an exciting time to be joining us.  With Growth comes development, from house extensions to urban extensions; warehouses to wind farms; one person’s dream, is another’s nightmare.  Development is challenging; are you up for that challenge? The Development Liaison Team brings together the Council’s highway advice, highway adoption and highway agreement services supported by our partners in Kier Highways, this small but dedicated team needs you to meet the challenges ahead.

As our Senior Highway Adoption and Agreements Engineer you will provide the vital highway engineering knowledge and experience the Council needs to ensure new roads and streets as well as highway improvements are fit for purpose and comply with our exacting standards. We look forward to you helping us shape our new and emerging communities whilst protecting our existing vibrant and beautiful historic towns and villages. 

What will you be doing?

The Senior Highway Adoption and Agreement Engineer sits within the Development Liaison team of the Councils Highways and Waste services which brings together the Council’s highway advice, highway adoption and highway agreement services supported by our partners in Kier Highways.  This small but highly effective and dedicated team needs an experienced Senior Engineer to lead the Highway Adoption and Highway Agreement functions.  You will negotiate legal agreements including those under Section 38 and Section 278 of the Highways Act 1980 required to facilitate new development.  You will also lead on providing technical and engineering advice and support for the Council to ensure that developer proposals comply with appropriate local and national standards as well as working with developers to get new roads adopted.

You will be managing a small team with big responsibilities vital to ensure the Council’s aims and objectives of supporting appropriate development and growth are achieved.

About you

Are you our new Senior Highway Adoption and Agreements Engineer ready to lead our highway adoption and agreement services so vital to make sure new developments are served by the infrastructure necessary and which is compliant with appropriate standards? 

You will be a suitably experienced and qualified engineer familiar with local government and development processes, the planning system as well as the highway adoption mechanisms.  Your experience in highway design and managing a team with multiple schemes, balancing priorities and resources both internal and external will help us to deliver the services necessary to facilitate development.  

Contact Chris Bond at Chris.Bond@northnorthants.gov.uk for more information about this position.

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We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)