Highways Development Control Engineer

Experience required…

Essential:

• Highways development control experience, primarily in responding to planning application consultations as a highway consultee.
• Experience providing highway advice on planning applications particularly in a two-tier authority context where the county is the highway authority but not the local planning authority.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Staffordshire’s local transport policies and the Staffordshire Local Plan, alongside national guidance (NPPF, Manual for Streets).
• Good understanding of the S106 process for securing highway mitigation and sustainable transport improvements.
• Ability to assess Travel Plans, and site access designs to design standards, focusing on rural and semi-urban development’s typical to Staffordshire (e.g., village expansions, logistics parks, edge-of-town housing).
• Experience providing pre‑application advice to developers, helping to set parameters for traffic surveys/modelling and discussing junction improvements.

As a salaried colleague, you’ll get a salary in line with your experience, skills and location along with an industry-leading benefits package:

• Company car or car allowance
• Contribution to commuting mileage
• Permanent health insurance
• 25 days annual leave (option to buy up to 5 more), in addition to the normal public holidays (based on a 40 hour week, pro rata for part-time colleagues)
• Company pension contribution
• Salary sacrifice to buy additional benefits
• 1 paid Waterman Aspen in the Community Day to volunteer in your local community