Senior Engineer - Highways Safety

The Highway Safety team are responsible for ensuring that the
**** km road network is safe and suitable for all users to travel throughout Kirklees without being involved in a road traffic collision. Recently adopting a Safe Systems approach to the introduction of engineering and education measures, the team is working towards our Vision Zero ambition of 0 Killed or Seriously Injured Casualties on our local roads by ****.

To help achieve our ambition we are looking for a Senior Engineer with the following skills and experience to join the team.

• Experience of designing road engineering schemes – desirable with some safety related experience.
• Can reply to Councillors, MPs, and residents' concerns regarding road safety on the network.
• Are able to provide professional and technical advice in road safety and highway engineering.
• Can analyse engineering problems and using your technical expertise and engineering judgment to produce solutions – especially when considering interventions to address areas with a high number of road traffic collisions.
• Experience in or knowledge of road safety audits and / or willingness to learn to become one of the internal road safety auditors.
• Undertake the relevant duty holder's role under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations ****, in particular, Designer, and help others to understand and undertake theirs.
• Applications will be reviewed on 5th January and may close earlier if suitable applications are received.