What's involved with this role: Interim Assistant Traffic Engineer Reference no: Manchester 0008 BFE3 / 1 Pay rate: Up to £45.00 per hour PAYE depending on experience Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 6 months City: MANCHESTER Hybrid working An Assistant Traffic Engineer is required to be responsible for the management of a portfolio of small highway and traffic engineering schemes and provide support as part of a wider team to deliver larger packages of work. This includes developing CAD designs of various highways schemes including walking and cycling schemes, bus priority, congestion management and road safety proposals. Key responsibilities: Manage engineering design process from inception to completion, including approval reports, consultation, legal and on-site implementation along with financial understanding of project. Work to Client brief in designing and/or approving traffic calming and/or Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) schemes based on current design guidance and legislation. Management and delivery of TRO schemes including liaison with Legal Services, effective administration of TRO records including GIS based mapping system to maintain records. Communicate with residents, businesses, other stakeholders and elected members throughout the duration of the scheme. Leda on answering enquiries and complaints on the telephone, via email and letter and at face to face consultation events. Comply with CDM requirements and H&S legislation. Work within and assist in the delivery of work packages within Project Management constraints of time, quality and cost standards so that business objectives are achieved. Display financial management skills to closely monitor and control income and expenditure in relation to services. projects and budgets. Ensure excellence in service delivery including providing management cover when required. Work within the overall policies of the council, using discretion and initiative over broad areas of activity without recourse to others and with minimal management direction. NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items: Qualifications: Hold an undergraduate degree in a relevant transportation discipline OR Hold a HNC / HND in Engineering or relevant equivalent. Experience: Ability and experience to manage engineering design process from inception to completion, including approval reports, consultation, legal and on-site implementation along with financial understanding of project. Relevant traffic/highway engineering experience. Skills & Abilities: Able to effectively transfer key and complex information to all levels of staff, adapting the style of communication as necessary and ensuring that this information is understood. Ability to absorb, understand and quickly assimilate complex information and concepts and compare information from a number of different sources. Excellent time management skills, creating own work schedules, prioritising, preparing in advance and setting realistic timescales for own self and others. Ability to visualise a sequence of actions needed to achieve a specific goal and how to estimate the resources required. Ability to work confidently with financial data when making decisions: interpret trends, issues and risks in routine financial appraisals. Ability to find creative solutions where there are no existing parameters or procedural framework. Demonstrate sound business intelligence and ability to identify commercially viable opportunities and secure value for money in service delivery. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you) – please give full details within your CV document. SC Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please