About Us Middlesbrough Council’s making great progress delivering its ambitious economic plans with exciting physical regeneration projects and unprecedented new housing growth and associated highway related schemes. Ensuring that this growth occurs in a managed way, to high standards whilst minimising disruption is an essential component in achieving this and we need a Principal Engineer to assist. About the role This is a senior Civil Engineer role within the Highways environment, where the successful candidate will have the opportunity to be involved in a number of different specialisms and projects whilst delivering a defined role. Duties will be both office and site based across a number of different schemes and disciplines. You will manage 2 Project Engineers, designing council highway schemes, and overseeing on site delivery with other officers: to be a part of a multi-disciplinary teams working across Council to deliver a major housing sties, the Council’s capital programme and the regional CRSTS programme in partnership with Tees Valley Combined Authority. This role involves solving problems and devising solutions by co-ordinating works through internal and external stakeholders together with office tasks under the Highways Act and tracking project financials. The post requires you to hold a degree qualification in a relevant subject such as Civil Engineering and at least 5 years’ experience in a related role. About the successful candidate We are looking for someone who is passionate about delivering high quality schemes, who can demonstrate a "can-do" attitude with a creative approach to problem solving. You will have experience of highway design, auditing technical construction drawings and delivering highway construction works on site and providing solutions to problems as they arise. Experience and detailed knowledge of the Highway Design and construction/materials is a key part of the role. The successful candidate will be an experienced Civil Engineer who takes pride in finding creative solutions and leading a small team to make Middlesbrough a better place to live, work and do business in. In return we can offer a supportive team environment, flexible working patterns, generous leave entitlement, employee benefit programmes, hybrid working and ability to join the Local Authority pension scheme. For an informal discussion please contact Craig Cowley, Head of Transport & Infrastructure, on 01642 728125 or by email Craig_Cowley@middlesbrough.gov.uk AI Guidance for Applicants Applicants must ensure that anything submitted must be factually accurate. Plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own. Whilst candidates can make use of AI, they must do it truthfully. Where possible experience stated within the supporting statement should also be visible in the work history part of the application. Whilst we accept candidates may use AI tools within job applications; submissions must be truthful and relevant to experience. About you Want to know more? Benefit 4 Benefit 5 Benefit 6 What we offer We believe in rewarding our people for their hard work by offering an attractive benefits package including generous annual leave, employee discounts and that all important pension, there’s something to benefit everyone! You can find out more about us and what we offer by clicking below. Electric Car Scheme Generous Annual Leave Pension Scheme Flexible/Hybrid Working Health & Well-being Benefits Discounts on gym memberships, retailers and more Documents