Senior Engineer Major Projects and Infrastructure

Senior Engineer Major Projects and Infrastructure

Salary: £49,764- £53,817 per annum

Grade: N

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37 hours per week

Location: County Hall, Northallerton - Hybrid working

Can you embrace a stimulating workload; do you appreciate a desirable working environment full of rich culture and heritage amongst the UK's finest countryside and towns? Could you help us deliver a significant workload of live and forthcoming Major highway projects. An opportunity is now available to join the team following a well-earned recent retirement. Would you like to be part of a gifted, motivated, and welcoming team of professional officers within the Council focused upon travel infrastructure project management workload. Is a public sector role for you; benefits include cultural ambiance, job satisfaction, generous holidays, agile hybrid working from home, modern and stately offices plus market leading pension offer. North Yorkshire is interested in hearing from anyone who feels they would be a suitable fit for this role.

Our Team

The Major Projects and Infrastructure Team is a key resource within the Environment Directorate and comprises over 30 full time staff, plus extensive support from multiple consultancy partners. Our core functions are to deliver capital programme engineering infrastructure, regeneration and transport projects, generally ranging in scale from £500k up towards current largest at £80m, while also working with strategic partners such as National Highways on circa £1b interventions. The team is also responsible for the County's bridges and retaining structures assets of over 6000 assets and new Electric Vehicle charging infrastructure initiatives.

North Yorkshire Council is England's largest council area geographically at c8000sq km and the 3^rd largest in terms of population. Delivery of highway network infrastructure upgrades to key junctions, accommodating all modes of transport across our largest own will confer a challenging but stimulating opportunity presented by this role.

The role

Responsible for providing essential technical design approvals as an informed Client, project management / governance co-ordination and delivery focused outcomes for strategic Local Transport Plan derived highway network upgrades. You will manage and co-ordinate projects, and partnerships ensuring delivery within agreed budget, timelines and quality standards. It will also include stakeholder management, overseeing partner consultants, contractors, developers and grant funding bodies, oversight of statutory orders, planning processes, project financial oversight, risk management, procurement, and programme discipline. The post will work closely with the Council's other internal service areas, including Legal / Procurement / Planning / Regeneration as projects determine.

What you will bring:

You should be educated to degree level or be able to demonstrate equivalent significant project management experience in the workplace; ideally a project management qualification such as Prince 2 or APM will support your application. Experience in contract management such as NEC will be an advantage.

You will have excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to liaise with multi agency partners, funding bodies, political leaders and public in achieving best project outputs and their support. You will be collaborative and embracing of the Team's warm ambiance, supporting colleagues and service managers in the delivery of transformational projects to enhance the area's urban quality, transportation options and economic opportunity.

Technical / highway engineering understanding will be an advantage and the willingness to learn new skillsets. Have the ability to problem solve and find practical solutions, have analytical and decision-making skills as well as excellent organisation skills. You will also have strong ICT skills including the use of a number of different software packages.

What's in it for you.

As a council we are lucky to benefit from access to modern technology enabling us to work from various locations - including several NYC bases and from home as default in a hybrid working model. Therefore, the successful candidate will have an agile approach to their work, optimising resources and making the most of our flexible working options. We can offer you a comprehensive benefits package including continuous professional development; flexible working hours; premium local government pension scheme; salary sacrifice schemes and employee discount benefits.

This is an exciting and varied role that can be adapted to an individual with the right skills and experience and avails future progression as the County's devolution deal will lead to more capital funding opportunity.

Contact and apply

If you would like an informal conversation regarding the role, please contact Richard.Binks@Northyorks.gov.uk or Barrie.Mason@northyorks.gov.uk

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Key Documents:

Job Description

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Key Dates:

Closing date: Sunday 30^th March 2025

Interview date: W/C 7^th April 2025

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