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You’ll get all the benefits of being employed by us, while working on a variety of projects for our clients. Joining Waterman Aspen as a Highway Development Control Engineer will see you as a key member of the West Mids team and you can expect:
1. A varied client base where you can apply and develop your skills
2. Buy-in from clients to assist in your technical progression
3. Further exposure to your chosen industry – increasing your awareness, knowledge and sharpening your skills
4. The flexibility to broaden your horizons with each new secondment, without changing your employer
5. Career development and training to reach your professional or academic qualification goals supported by our own network of mentors and managers
6. Paid subscription to a professional body of your choice
7. Regular social events and volunteering opportunities
Experience required…
Essential:
8. Highways development control experience, primarily in responding to planning application consultations as a highway consultee.
9. Experience providing highway advice on planning applications particularly in a two-tier authority context where the county is the highway authority but not the local planning authority.
Desirable:
10. Knowledge of Staffordshire’s local transport policies and the Staffordshire Local Plan, alongside national guidance (NPPF, Manual for Streets).
11. Good understanding of the S106 process for securing highway mitigation and sustainable transport improvements.
12. Ability to assess Travel Plans, and site access designs to design standards, focusing on rural and semi-urban development’s typical to Staffordshire (e.g., village expansions, logistics parks, edge-of-town housing).
13. Experience providing pre-application advice to developers, helping to set parameters for traffic surveys/modelling and discussing junction improvements.
You’ll get this and so much more…
As a salaried colleague, you’ll get a salary in line with your experience, skills and location along with an industry-leading benefits package:
14. Company car or car allowance
15. Contribution to commuting mileage
16. Permanent health insurance
17. 25 days annual leave (option to buy up to 5 more), in addition to the normal public holidays (based on a 40 hour week, pro rata for part-time colleagues)
18. Company pension contribution
19. Salary sacrifice to buy additional benefits
20. 1 paid Waterman Aspen in the Community Day to volunteer in your local community