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The city is undergoing a transformation with substantial public and private sector investment in housing, capital infrastructure supporting leisure, culture and the environment and leading the way on renewable energy and flood resilience.\nYou will play a key role in leading infrastructure development needed to deliver our aspirations for clean economic growth and sustainable travel. You will be part of an award-winning Major Projects and Infrastructure team that is transforming the city with its proactive approach and partnership working.\nYou will work as part of the Design and Commissioning team and participate in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary environment with freedom to lead and implement key highway and traffic infrastructure schemes within Hull.\nThe successful candidate will be able to engage with a range of stakeholders, including residents and elected Members to deliver improvements to meet the needs of the city.\nHull City Council provides a range of benefits to motivate, reward and recognise the valuable work of our employees. This includes policies and support to help balance home life with work commitments, excellent learning and development opportunities, a defined benefit pension scheme and employee discounts from a range of suppliers via our Hull Plus website.\nIf you are excited by the opportunity to play a central role in the Design and Commissioning Team within Hull City Council and share our values to provide aspirational benefits to the people of Hull, then we’d like to hear from you.\nResponsibilities:\nLead Highway and Traffic Design (from feasibility to implementation) of various schemes from highway maintenance, highway design, traffic, road safety and active travel schemes\nPreparing design calculations, drawings, specifications, bill of quantities, contract documents (NEC4) and other project documentation as required.\nProject management of Highways Civil and Traffic Engineering schemes including financial control of scheme budgets\nProvide specialist technical information to internal and external colleagues.\nSite supervision of works (including surveying)\nCompliance with H&S standards (CDM regulations).\nExperience Preferred:\nDegree Qualified or HNC Civil Engineering with relevant experience\nIn depth knowledge of highways design and / or traffic / road safety engineering\nSubstantial experience of AutoCad drafting and relevant IT packages.\nGood understanding and application of current highway design codes and standards\nGood understanding of current health and safety legislation\nFull UK driving license and ability to travel to sites.\nROLE AND PURPOSE\nThe post holder will take a lead role as a Traffic and Highway Engineer within a flexible team that investigate, develop, design, commission and manage high quality civil engineering projects which contribute to the objectives of the City Council’s aims, policies and strategies.\nThe type of projects could range across traffic engineering and highways civil engineering including; Traffic Regulation Orders, road safety schemes, design and construction of Highway Engineering schemes such as junction improvements, lay-bys, traffic calming, car parking areas and planned maintenance of carriageways and footways as required within the team.\nTo assist the Highways Manager - Design and Commissioning in the provision of an effective service that will significantly support community sustainability through maintaining the highway asset, promoting sustainable transport and reduce road traffic accidents in an efficient and co-ordinated manner which impacts upon the local physical environment.\nTo provide a consultancy service for internal and external partners such as the Asset Management Team, Permit team and others, such as the Area Teams, DfT (Department for Transport), Safer Roads Humber, Local Businesses which is customer focused, that works within budgets, tight timescales and ensures compliance to the latest statutory and technical requirements.\nTo undertake report writing and project management of projects which may require some unsociable hours works (committee meetings / consultation events / nighttime civils works etc.)\nPRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:\n1. Strategy - To provide effective leadership and guidance to investigate, develop, design and manage, high quality traffic and highways engineering projects, road safety improvement schemes, which in turn will contribute to the objectives of the City Council's Strategies and Plans.\n2. Customer Focus - To provide a positive approach to customer service, ensuring that service delivery recognises the differing needs of local communities through liaison with Area Teams and others, and is tailored to meet those needs. To develop embedded, responsive, informative, professional advice and concise feedback to Area Teams and others, such that the service delivery satisfies local community needs and reflects the political and democratic dimensions of the City Council.\n3. Performance Management - To manage and provide modifications and improvement projects related to the highway network and elsewhere within the city and confidently deliver projects to specification, cost, quality and time.\n4. Leadership - To take a lead role in commissioning of a 'Value for Money' service, where the customer is at the heart to enable investment planning, co-ordination and delivery of the highway assets, and that service providers are effectively managed and represent value for money.\n5. Statutory Obligations - To promote, monitor and ensure compliance with all relevant legislation and Council policies with particular emphasis on promoting Health and Safety matters. To ensure that projects and contractors accord with legislation, regulations and codes of practice relating to the highway, safety and traffic flow and to ensure that current corporate procurement rules and audit are met.\n6. Commission and project manage specialist investigations, surveys and designs from specialist external consultants and developers.\n7. Deputise for the Manager as required on all relevant issues and assist in the effective management of the employees and resources allocated to the team and effectively communicate with, support and encourage employees within the team.\n8. Participate in the development and implementation of Service Delivery Plan for the Highway Design and Strategy Group and Highway Asset Management group and ensure delivery of the relevant outcomes for the Team.\n9. Effectively manage within the budgets allocated.\nNC983.Highway and Traffic Engineer.docx\nCompensation Grades:\nGRADES 10.Pay Ranges:\n£46,579.00 - £49,817.00Job Classifications:\n3- Not Politically Restricted - Designated As Not Politically Sensitive (Politically Restricted Posts), Casual - (Travel Allowance Policy), No - (Childcare Disqualification Requirement), No - (Statutory Post)Benefits of Working of Hull City Council:\n- A competitive salary\n- An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)\n- Initially 23 days annual leave depending on length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year, and three additional days off, one in May/August and one during the Christmas/New year period\n- Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods\n- Supportive and forward-thinking culture\n- Great career development opportunities\nPLEASE NOTE: you MUST complete and submit your application by midnight prior to the closing date. For example: If the closing date is Friday 16 October 2026 then your application must be submitted by 11:59pm on Thursday 15 October 2026.\nPlease ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description. Provide examples to support your application rather than use of lists.\nWe are committed to increasing the diversity, equality, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.\nWe adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.\nWe reserve the right to amend the dates associated with this advert, which may include closing the advert early where required.\nThe Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.\nOnline searches, including social media, may be carried out as part of the recruitment process.\nWe are committed to “our values” at the Council of People First, Respect, Learning, Ambition and Partnership. 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