Traffic Signals Design Team Leader

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Traffic Signals Design Team Leader

Amey Consulting – Senior Traffic Signals Engineer

We have a fantastic opportunity for a permanent Traffic Signals Design Team Leader to join our Consulting Lighting, Power and Technology team. With offices in Birmingham, Sheffield, York, Newcastle, Manchester, Bristol and Edinburgh we are open to candidate from across the UK.

The standard hours of work are 40 Hours per week, but we offer a range of flexible working practices, including hybrid, part-time and flexible working patterns. With our network of offices across the UK and now Ireland, we are open to discussing working options that match your needs, with the flexibility to change how you work as your life evolves.

Amey Consulting is a design partner to National Highways through the Midlands and Southwest Scheme Delivery Frameworks (SDF), where we are working on numerous traffic signals designs for new sites and refurbishments.

We also undertake traffic signals design for a range of local authorities across the UK through our position on frameworks, including the Midlands Highways Alliance and Yor Consult, and for Transport Scotland through our Northeast and Southwest regional contracts.

As a Traffic Signals Design Team Leader, you will lead the Traffic Signals team on a variety of traffic signals and related schemes and help delivery of these.

Responsibilities include:

• To lead a team to product technically sound engineering solutions, complying with all relevant technical standards and client requirements
• The preparation and checking of designs, calculations, drawings and documentation as part of the production of scheme deliverables that satisfy the overarching criteria of quality, cost and programme.
• Overseeing the actions of more junior members of staff undertaking similar tasks and taking responsibility for their actions
• Responsibility for the commercial success of the projects within their portfolio, controlling budgets and managing the costs associated with the production of deliverables
• Liaising with client and supplier representatives at peer level, attending progress meetings, responding to queries etc.
• Significantly contributing to the preparation of bids and the general work winning function
• Drive effective health and safety practices within the team

• Able to produce technically sound engineering solutions, complying with all relevant technical standards and client requirements, working unsupervised and supervising more junior members of staff undertaking similar tasks
• Ability to identify and apply engineering solutions to existing roadside technology operational challenges requiring logical and maintainable resolutions
• Experienced in undertaking project related tasks associated with the management of health, safety and welfare, e.g. Amey’s Integrated Management System and the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations
• Capable of acting as day-to-day main engineering contact for a project, both with clients and other disciplines
• Knowledge, understanding and experience of design and specification process with ability to advise others (Design Team Leader for appropriate projects). Can check designs to a high standard
• Highly experienced with relevant software and similar analytical tools. Good ability to check work produced by others
• Has a very good understanding of CDM and risk assessment. Substantially experienced in the management and communication of hazards and risks on projects and ensures appropriate risk mitigation and transference has been applied.
• Capable of acting as Principal Designer for appropriate projects
• Supervisory and people manager skills. Capable of managing a medium sized, locally based single discipline technical…