Senior Engineer - Traffic Management; Career Pathway

Job reference: CAPA
00013N1

HME

Location: County Hall, Ruthin/Home Working

Contract: Permanent

Closing date: 23rd February 2026

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated and innovative individual to lead our busy Traffic Management team. The team are responsible for managing our traffic signal assets, the development of new traffic management, road marking and signage schemes, and Traffic Regulation Orders.

The role is customer-facing and requires a good knowledge of traffic management technology and legislation, together with excellent organisational and communication skills.

Appointment subject to satisfactory references.

If you would like to discuss any aspect of the post, please call Mike Jones, Traffic and Transportation Manager on

A Career Pathway is a development plan for an employee to progress in their career. Employees on a career pathway are supported to develop their knowledge, skills, experience and potentially gain qualifications to progress in their career in a specific area.

Career Pathways have an entry level job description which will have a lower salary, and an end level job description which will have a higher salary. A development plan is set out which clearly shows the skills, experiences, knowledge and qualifications that are needed in order to progress through the grades until you reach the end level higher salary job description.

After the job description in the information pack, there is a table which shows the relevant criteria for each salary grade within the Pathway. Make sure you clearly set out in the supporting statement of your application how you meet the criteria for the Grade you’re applying for.

We believe the hard work and commitment of our staff should be properly rewarded, so we offer a range of benefits to help our employees achieve a work / life balance, develop in their career, and we support them in their work.

• Flexible and Agile Working - Take control of your work / life balance
• Generous annual leave entitlement - starting at 26 days (plus bank holidays) rising with length of service to a total of 32 days
• Your Wellbeing - Supportive, caring work environment, mental health champions, and access to EAP (Employee Assistance Programme)
• Your development - The chance to progress in your career, including training and promotion opportunities
• Lifestyle Savings via DCC Rewards Direct - high street shopping, holidays, days out etc
• Car salary sacrifice scheme and car leasing scheme
• Family friendly policies

To view the full list of benefits we offer, please visit:

Employee benefits will vary depending on specific job role terms and conditions.

To apply for this exciting vacancy, please complete our online application form via the website, where you can also view the full job description and personal specification:

Please outline on your application form how you meet all the essential criteria for this position within your supporting statement.

Candidates must complete an application form on our website to be considered. We regret that we are unable to reply to all applications. If you have not received a reply within three weeks of the closing date, you must assume that you have not been short listed for interview.

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.

Denbighshire County Council is committed to Equal Opportunities and its Welsh Language Standards. We welcome applications in the Welsh Language and application forms received in the Welsh Language will not be treated less favourably than an application form submitted in English.