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About the Role
Within Camden’s Highways Engineering Service, you’ll have the opportunity to shape Camden’s streets and public spaces, helping us create safer, healthier, more accessible and sustainable places for everyone. We’re looking for an experienced Senior Design Engineer to play a key role in the design and delivery of Camden’s highway, traffic and public realm schemes.
Responsibilities
- Lead and contribute to a broad range of projects, from parking and traffic management changes through to complex junction designs, active travel schemes, cycle corridors and major public realm improvements.
- Take schemes from feasibility through to detailed design, producing and reviewing construction drawings, geometric and drainage designs, Bills of Quantities, cost estimates, audit documentation and contract documents.
- Ensure designs meet relevant legislation and technical standards while challenging proposals to identify safer, more sustainable, user-friendly and cost-effective solutions.
- Work closely with colleagues across the Council as well as TfL, developers, emergency services, elected Members, consultants, vulnerable user groups and the public.
- Manage external consultants, provide technical advice and support negotiations relating to development proposals.
- Review designs associated with planning applications, negotiate with developers and consultants, coordinate approvals and help ensure schemes meet Camden’s transport and public realm objectives.
- Share expertise, promote best practice and innovation, mentor junior colleagues and support apprentices and placements.
Requirements
- An Engineering degree or equivalent and relevant post-qualification experience, or Chartered/Incorporated status with a recognised professional institution and demonstrable relevant experience.
- Strong understanding of highway design within an urban environment.
- Experience delivering large, complex or high-value schemes.
- Confidence managing budgets and programmes, commissioning and managing consultants, coordinating multiple providers and working within relevant contract and financial management procedures.
- Experience of partnership working and public consultation.
- Confidence to work with developers, elected Members, public authorities and communities on potentially complex or contentious projects.
- Proficiency in AutoCAD, with the ability to produce and review complex highway designs to a high standard.
- Strong technical judgement.
- Excellent communication, negotiation and problem-solving skills.
Skills
- AutoCAD
- Highway design
- Geometric design
- Drainage design
- Budget management
- Programme management
- Consultant management
- Partnership working
- Public consultation
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Problem-solving
Location
- 5 Pancras Square
Work Type
- Permanent
- 36 weekly hours
Experience Level
- Senior
- Experienced engineering professional
Education Level
- Engineering degree or equivalent
- Chartered/Incorporated status with a recognised professional institution
Salary/Compensations
- £47,525
Benefits
- Host of benefits
- Flexible working employer
About the Company
- Camden is building somewhere everyone can thrive.
- We’re making our borough the best place to live, work, study and visit while delivering ambitious change so that nobody gets left behind.
Equal Opportunity
- Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.
- We want every colleague to feel they belong and can thrive.
- We welcome applications from all parts of our community, and particularly encourage people from Black, Asian and Other Ethnic Heritage communities, LGBTQ+ people, disabled and neurodiverse people, survivors of domestic abuse, and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds or with care experience.
- We know that different voices and perspectives make us stronger, and we are committed to providing the support, adjustments and flexibility people need to succeed.
- We are committed to making our recruitment process barrier-free and accessible for everyone.
- If you need us to do something differently during the application, interview or assessment process, just let us know and we will support you.
- This could include providing information in an alternative format, extra time in assessments, or adjustments for disabled, neurodiverse or long-term health conditions.