Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade I. Scale 35 - £44,711 to Scale 39 - £48,710 with a professional bar at SCP 37 £46,731**
Hours Per Week: 36 hours
Base Location: Tame Street Depot
Assessment Date: To be arranged
The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Place Directorate in Engineering Services. We are looking for a highly motived individual to fill the role of Senior Engineer, responsible for a range of highway network functions.
About You
The successful candidate will have extensive experience and technical expertise in the field of highway, civil or structural engineering.
The ability to actively project manage and be accountable for delivering schemes on time and to budget is essential. You must be well organised, numerate and attentive to detail whilst also having excellent IT skills, communication and interpersonal skills.
You need to be flexible, adaptable, enjoy working in a team and be able to manage competing demands by careful prioritisation of work. You will need to be able to work on your own initiative with minimum supervision.
About Us
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
** This post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:
1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above, AND
2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND
3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND
4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English.
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
Please note, previous applicants need not apply.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here
For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager Andrea Hebblethwaite on 07976732034 or Andrea.Hebblethwaite@tameside.gov.uk
Reference Number: 001004