Highway Improvements Assistant Engineer

Role Responsibility

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Engineer position in the Highway Improvements Team within the Road Safety and Active Travel Group. We are looking for a conscientious and eager Assistant Engineer, 37 hours a week, grade KSF with a starting salary of £32,140.

Would you be interested in working in a team investigating crash data and identifying highway improvements and changes to reduce future injuries on the public highway and save lives? We are looking for an Assistant Engineer to work within the team alongside the established group of engineers and project managers.  

Using technical, time management and people skills you will assist the team to deliver a common-sense approach to high quality and cost-effective highway improvement schemes across Kent.  This will include (but not be limited to) identifying, developing, planning and delivering small to medium highway improvement schemes including Casualty Reduction Measures, Local Transport schemes, Operational sign designs, Combined Member Grants and Parish Council schemes in an efficient and cost-effective way, ensuring that consistent processes are implemented.

The Highway Improvements team work across three groups of interconnected work streams. These are divided into Community and Engagement, Planning and Advice and Design and Delivery. The Engineer will work within the Planning or Design stream to help deliver designs and investigate highway improvements. 

The post holder would benefit from having a basic knowledge of relevant standards, national and local guidelines including Term Maintenance contracts, TSRGD and other highway documentation. You will need excellent communication skills, with the ability to liaise with the public, be self-motivated, willing to learn and the ability to manage workloads.  A good understanding of how Highway Authorities and Local Government work will be beneficial.

You will be required to present the road safety and active travel group in a positive light to the public and of course our internal customers and elected members. The role requires a high level of professionalism and the ability to work closely with other team members to ensure customer response deadlines are met.

A requirement to have, or be willing to work towards an HNC in civil engineering potentially through an apprenticeship or equivalent relevant experience. 

The role is being advertised as a full-time position on a 37 hours per week contract (Mon-Fri). Candidates would be able to utilise hybrid working with a mixture of working predominantly from home, and 1-2 days per week in the office. The office base would be either the Ashford or Aylesford KCC Depot which can be agreed with the successful candidate(s). For the right candidate we would consider a part-time working arrangement.

This role is subject to holding a Full UK Driving Licence – The Council is committed to making reasonable adjustments so whilst this job requires the jobholder to drive your application will still be considered if you are unable to drive due to a disability.

The post will involve the need to travel independently throughout the county on occasion. Many locations may not be accessible by public transport. KCC pool cars are available for site work for those without their own means of transport.  

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

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Please note - if you are interested, please apply soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.