Overview
Location: Stockport
Job type: Full Time • Permanent
Expires: 05/10/2025
About the Role
Team Leader Engineer (Highway Design & Construction)
Salary: MB4 (£45,091 - £51,356)
Hours: 37 hours, Full-Time
Location: Hybrid: Stopford House and homeworking (a minimum of two days per week in the office)
Application Deadline: 11:59pm Sunday 5th October 2025
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications is received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: Monday 6th - Tuesday 7th October 2025
Interview Date: w/c 13th October 2025
Interview Type: In person at Stopford House, Stockport
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Your Role
Stockport has been recognised nationally as a great place to live and work and has been recognised as ‘Council of the Year’ by the MJ Awards. As a Team Leader Engineer (Highway Design & Construction), you’ll play an important part in our ambition to develop transport infrastructure that is green, inclusive, resilient, and safe and helps to reduce air pollution and lower our overall carbon emissions. Stockport already boasts some of the best connectivity in Greater Manchester, with regular train links into both Manchester and London, as well as a fast-growing network of walking, wheeling, and cycling routes and state-of-the-art transport interchange. Our ambitious investment programme aims to make it easier and greener for people to travel around Stockport, connecting people with access to good job opportunities and all the sport, culture and leisure facilities the borough has to offer.
Working alongside experienced professionals as part of multi-disciplinary project teams you will be leading the successful development and delivery of schemes throughout the detailed design and construction phases all the way through to hand over into operations and maintenance. You will play a key role in delivering safe, efficient and deliverable designs for our capital programme, whilst contributing to staff development and the continuous improvement of our processes.
About You
We’re looking for a motivated and experienced professional with a strong background in delivering highways projects within the public sector through detailed design and on-site construction. You’ll have a proven ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams to meet challenging deadlines, designing and managing complex highways schemes for delivery to site.
You’ll bring hands-on experience in leading detailed design of highway schemes with competing priorities. Your ability to work with the supply chain will be key to ensuring timely, high-quality outcomes. A solid understanding of asset management principles and how they inform long-term planning, investment decisions, and lifecycle management of infrastructure will be essential.
Experience in active travel initiatives and a thoughtful approach to how infrastructure supports placemaking will be a distinct advantage.
About Us
The role is based within our Capital Delivery Service, within Strategic Infrastructure. You will work alongside teams who project manage our capital projects as well as maintaining the highway infrastructure.
You will be joining a committed, supportive and diverse team of staff, consultants and partner organisations. We are proud of what we achieve together, delivering sustainable infrastructure schemes which will shape the future of transport in Stockport. There will be opportunities to develop your own skills and career as you play a key role in delivering a variety of projects alongside experienced professionals from across the service.
At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.
If you would like to find out more about the role, please contact Andrew Varey at [emailprotected] to arrange an informal discussion about the role.
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Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.
If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application. Please also email [emailprotected].
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Stockport Council is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce culture - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities to join our workforce.
We want our employees to have a good work life balance and in many job roles we can offer a range of flexible/hybrid working arrangements. We also have inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support our diverse workforce. We will listen to, learn from, and develop our workforce.
Piccadilly, Stockport, SK1 3XE, United Kingdom
A generous annual leave allowance, up to 30 days annual leave dependent on grade and length of service, plus bank holidays with the option to purchase additional annual leave
Work and personal life balance. Many jobs include part time working, flexi-time and homeworking
Employee engagement networks to support colleagues and create opportunities to feed into both workforce and borough strategies
Support for volunteering by allowing up to 4 hours per month (pro rata) to carry out any duties associated with this
Learning and Development
A suite of learning and development opportunities, from important data protection training to all level apprenticeships
Discounts
A huge range of discounts via an easy to use portal, including: Gym memberships, restaurants, events, travel, cycle to work scheme, home electronics and more.
Access to an employee support hotline, available 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.
Pension Scheme
Option to join the Local Government Pension Scheme and give your pension a boost by enrolling into a salary sacrifice scheme.
Our Recruitment Journey
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2. Shortlisting
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3. Interviews
Prepare by familiarising yourself with the job profile and the About You criteria. If you require reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act, discuss them with us at [emailprotected].
4. Offer stage and pre-employment checks
You’ll receive a conditional offer and contract. Pre-employment checks may include: right to work in the UK; DBS checks; gaps in employment; reference checks; pre-employment health declaration; qualification checks. We will request references prior to issuing your conditional contract. The information will be dealt with in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice.
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