Engineer

Ready to make a real difference to Stoke-on-Trent's roads and footways? Stoke-on-Trent City Council is looking for a motivated and experienced Highways Engineer to join our Highway Asset Management team, helping to deliver maintenance programmes that keep our network safe, reliable, and fit for the future. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on the planning, design, and delivery of highway maintenance schemes across the city. You'll manage carriageway and footway resurfacing programmes, reconstruction schemes, preventative maintenance treatments, and associated drainage improvements, ensuring investment is targeted where it delivers the greatest benefit. Working as a key member of the Highway Asset Management team and reporting to the Principal Engineer (Highway Maintenance), you will help deliver the Council's Highway Asset Management Plan by developing and implementing annual maintenance programmes across a range of highway assets, including:

• Carriageways
• Footways
• Highway drainage assets
• Traffic signs and road markings
Using condition data, inspections, asset information and engineering judgement, you'll identify priorities, develop schemes, manage budgets, and oversee delivery from conception through to completion. Working closely with inspectors, contractors, utility companies, councillors, and residents, you'll ensure maintenance works are delivered safely, efficiently, and to a high standard, providing real improvements to the travelling public. If you have experience delivering highway maintenance, resurfacing, reconstruction, or asset management programmes and are passionate about improving local infrastructure, we would like to hear from you. Join us and help keep Stoke-on-Trent moving.,
• Develop and deliver annual highway maintenance programmes in line with the Highway Asset Management Plan.
• Design, specify and oversee carriageway and footway resurfacing, reconstruction, patching and preventative maintenance schemes.
• Prioritise maintenance investment using condition surveys, inspections, asset data and risk-based principles.
• Manage projects through feasibility, costing, procurement, delivery and completion.
• Monitor scheme budgets, programme performance and contractor delivery.
• Identify and develop solutions to highway drainage issues that affect asset condition and network resilience.
• Prepare technical specifications, contract documentation and reports.
• Liaise with residents, councillors, contractors and internal stakeholders regarding maintenance programmes and scheme delivery.
• Support the continuous development and improvement of highway asset management practices.
  
  Experience in the planning, design and delivery of highway maintenance and asset management programmes.
• Knowledge of carriageway and footway construction, resurfacing, reconstruction and preventative maintenance techniques.
• Understanding of highway asset management principles and lifecycle planning.
• Experience of managing projects, budgets and contractors.
• Ability to interpret condition survey data and use asset information to develop maintenance priorities.
• Good knowledge of relevant highway legislation, specifications and industry standards.
• Experience using highway asset management systems and relevant engineering software.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
  
  We are a city of strengths, with a proud heritage and bright future. Working for Stoke-on Trent City Council is more than just a job, it's about making, protecting and improving the services for the local population, reducing inequalities and improving independence for the people who live and work in the city. And that's where you come in. We are always looking for people of the highest calibre with skills, knowledge and experience to help us deliver our compelling vision., Stoke-on-Trent City Council's diverse and talented workforce is its greatest asset and most valuable resource. The skills, knowledge and experience of our c.4,600 employees are essential to delivering our ambitions and vision for our organisation and Stoke-on-Trent. We want to be an employer that people are proud to work for, and where our staff are supported, developed and rewarded in an inclusive way that helps them to excel and to deliver the high-quality services that our residents need., Stoke-on-Trent City Council is a unitary authority employing approximately 4,600 staff who deliver 700 services to more than 260,000 residents. Our city comprises of six towns: Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke and Tunstall. We are a city of strengths, with a proud heritage and bright future. We have undergone significant changes over the last few years. New ways of working have already transformed many service areas and we are determined to continue to develop more innovative approaches to ensure that we can maximise the benefits of transformation.
Our city Although the 13th largest city in the UK, Stoke-on-Trent is rapidly outstripping a number of parts of the country with our economic growth and recovery. Stoke-on-Trent is a city with a strong sense of civic pride - we've been voted the kindest city in the UK - and a place where you'll receive a hugely warm welcome. We have a rich and diverse culture, steeped in our prestigious industrial heritage as the celebrated 'world capital of ceramics'. But we don't just want to celebrate our proud past - we firmly believe that Stoke-on-Trent's best years are ahead of it. We are determined to raise aspirations and match them with high-quality education and health provision, as well as improved opportunities to secure fulfilling and well-paid work. Through uniting social and economic opportunities, we are maximising the full power of the city council as a secure and steadfast institution within the city.


• A competitive salary based on your skills, experience and talent
• Hybrid and flexible working options
• An excellent local authority benefits pension scheme
• Professional development through learning opportunities, regular training sessions and apprenticeship and management schemes, When you work for Stoke-on-Trent City Council you'll be helping to improve the lives and wellbeing of our residents. We'll provide you with support, learning opportunities and flexible working options and some amazing benefits including; a competitive salary, generous holidays, an excellent defined local authority benefit pension scheme, annual leave purchase scheme, cycle to work schemes just to name a few. We also have access to lifestyle benefits which offer a wide range of discounts such as family days out, travel, retail and many more.
Our commitment to you Vibrancy and diversity are two of Stoke-on-Trent's greatest assets. A city founded on creative endeavour should value and celebrate the multitude of voices, ideas and identities that shape its culture. We are committed to creating a culture which is truly inclusive, where all staff feel valued, listened to, supported and able to do their work to the best of their abilities at all times. And we must ensure that our decisions and policies nurture and empower communities across our city and do not inadvertently disadvantage groups and individuals that we want to help to thrive. Our approach to Equality and Diversity is an invitation to all our communities to work with and for us so we can continue to improve how we deliver services residents need. Our employee networks are inclusive, open forums for colleagues with similar lived experiences. They allow staff to meet, support and mentor each other, alongside being a voice for under-represented groups to advise and support the organisation when developing policies and services.