Design Engineer

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We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing
  , both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities
  , apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

Help design infrastructure that makes a real difference to communities

Are you a civil or highways engineer looking for a role where you can see the impact of your work in the places people live, travel and work?

We’re looking for two Design Engineers to join our team and help develop and deliver local infrastructure projects across Cambridgeshire.

This is an opportunity to take designs from ideas through to construction-ready solutions, working on projects across highways, bridges, rights of way and other local infrastructure. You’ll combine technical engineering with problem-solving, collaboration and engagement with the communities our projects serve.

No two projects will be quite the same.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Lead the design of infrastructure projects, taking responsibility for planning, design, programme, budget and risk.
• Work across a range of highway design disciplines, building your experience and broadening your technical capability.
• Turn engineering challenges into practical, deliverable solutions.
• Influence projects from optioneering through to construction-ready design.
• Champion best value and lower-carbon solutions, considering social, environmental and financial benefits.
• Work with communities, elected members, businesses, landowners and partner organisations.
• Help develop less experienced colleagues and contribute to a culture where good ideas and constructive challenge are welcomed.

As a Design Engineer, you’ll be a technical lead on medium-complexity infrastructure projects and an important part of our wider Infrastructure and Project Delivery service.

You’ll develop designs within agreed scopes, budgets and programmes while ensuring that CDM 2015 and health and safety requirements are embedded throughout the design process. You’ll consider how your design choices affect construction as well as the people who will ultimately use the infrastructure.

You’ll also work closely with colleagues, consultants, contractors and external partners. Depending on the project, that could include District Councils, the Department for Transport, National Highways, Network Rail, the Environment Agency, community groups and others.

You’ll bring a strong grounding in civil engineering or transport infrastructure design and the confidence to take ownership of your work.

You’ll need:

• A degree in Civil Engineering or a related subject, or equivalent experience.
• Professional membership, or to be working towards membership.
• Exp…