Assistant Engineer

Job Description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £39,939 - £42,699 per annum (+Market Premia of Standard 10% of top of grade)

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 28th November 2025

Interview Date(s): TBC

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Engineer within the Traffic & Safety Team at Leicestershire County Council. We are looking for someone support the Senior Engineer with leading and developing engineering staff, whilst providing support to the Team Manager to provide high quality traffic management and road safety initiatives for the benefit of people living, working, and travelling in Leicestershire.

About the Role

This role will involve working alongside colleagues in the Traffic & Safety team, which covers a variety of areas such as Traffic Management, Road Safety, Road Safety Education, Bikeability and School Crossing Patrols.

As Assistant Engineer, you will be responsible for assisting the Senior Engineer with the design, appraisal and delivery of all new traffic-management and road safety schemes across Leicestershire. These projects will involve small-scale highway improvements such as new signing and lining schemes, Traffic Regulation Orders, Traffic Calming, Casualty Reduction schemes, highway public realm improvements, and active travel projects.

The successful candidate will have proven experience of working at a senior level in an engineering setting, with significant knowledge of current legislation, policies, technical guidance and standards - TSRGD, Traffic Signs Manuals, Traffic Management Act, CDM, LTN 1/20 etc. This also includes demonstrable experience of undertaking road safety audits, cluster site analysis and road studies with producing technical and non-technical reports or presentations based on outcomes and findings.

The Assistant Engineer role involves demonstrating exceptional leadership skills with the ability to supervise a team both in technical aspects and performance management. This includes excellent interpersonal skills, with being able to provide strategic and technical road safety advice to colleagues, members, partners, and stakeholders, including escalations and complaints from the residents of Leicestershire.

In addition to the above, the successful candidate will have strong IT skills with fluid experience in the use of AutoCAD for designing traffic schemes and the ability to interpret maps for scheme approvals and auditing. Use and experience of Microsoft packages are also essential requirements of the role with the ability

The role involves working in a fast-paced hybrid working environment with significant responsibilities, diverse priorities, and challenging deadlines. If you enjoy thinking innovatively and developing forward-thinking solutions to complex traffic challenges, further information on how to apply for this role is listed below.

About You

To apply for this post, you must have:

A degree in an appropriate subject or equivalent qualification (e.g. BTEC Higher in Civil Engineering) plus demonstrable experience as identified below
Working in a commercial environment and delivering projects and programmes to time, quality and cost.
Extensive and detailed knowledge of highway legislation and policies and procedures -Highways Act NRSWA, Traffic Management Act, Traffic Regulation Act, CDM, LTN 1/20 etc.
Demonstrable experience in leading, developing, supervising, and managing members of a team, both in technical aspects and performance management
Collaborative working with customers and key stakeholders to deliver outputs and outcomes
Connecting with communities and localities through listening, dialogue and understanding community needs
Excellent communication and presentation skills including the ability to shape and influence to achieve successful outcomes and to continue to build on the credibility of the Council and its services

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for this role.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Fiona Blockley

Traffic & Safety Team Manager

Fiona.Blockley@leics.gov.uk

Tel : 0116 305 0932

or

Ashley Hughes

Senior Engineer - Traffic & Safety

Ashley.Hughes@leics.gov.uk

Tel : 0116 305 0660

How to Apply

Please apply sending us your CV as well a supporting statement, detailing how you meet the requirements of the post. The supporting statement should be no longer than 500 words. Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.

By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.

About Us

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

For further information on what it's like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

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