Engineer

Directorate
:
Housing, Regeneration and Operations

Section
:
Highways

Hours
: 37 hours per week

This advert is open to both internal and external applicants.

We are a city of strengths, with a proud heritage and bright future. Working for Stoke-on Trent City Council is more than just a job, it's about making, protecting and improving the services for the local population, reducing inequalities and improving independence for the people who live and work in the city. And that’s where you come in. We are always looking for people of the highest calibre with skills, knowledge and experience to help us deliver our compelling vision.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s diverse and talented workforce is its greatest asset and most valuable resource. The skills, knowledge and experience of our c.4,600 employees are essential to delivering our ambitions and vision for our organisation and Stoke-on-Trent. We want to be an employer that people are proud to work for, and where our staff are supported, developed and rewarded in an inclusive way that helps them to excel and to deliver the high-quality services that our residents need.

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Stoke-on-Trent City Council is looking for a motivated and experienced Highways Engineer to join our Highway Asset Management team, helping to deliver maintenance programmes that keep our network safe, reliable, and fit for the future.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on the planning, design, and delivery of highway maintenance schemes across the city. You'll manage carriageway and footway resurfacing programmes, reconstruction schemes, preventative maintenance treatments, and associated drainage improvements, ensuring investment is targeted where it delivers the greatest benefit.

Working as a key member of the Highway Asset Management team and reporting to the Principal Engineer (Highway Maintenance), you will help deliver the Council's Highway Asset Management Plan by developing and implementing annual maintenance programmes across a range of highway assets, including:

• Footways
• Highway drainage assets
• Traffic signs and road markings

Using condition data, inspections, asset information and engineering judgement, you'll identify priorities, develop schemes, manage budgets, and oversee delivery from conception through to completion.

Working closely with inspectors, contractors, utility companies, councillors, and residents, you'll ensure maintenance works are delivered safely, efficiently, and to a high standard, providing real improvements to the travelling public.

If you have experience delivering highway maintenance, resurfacing, reconstruction, or asset management programmes and are passionate about improving local infrastructure, we would like to hear from you.

Join us and help keep Stoke-on-Trent moving.

• Develop and deliver annual highway maintenance programmes in line with the Highway Asset Management Plan.
• Design, specify and oversee carriageway and footway resurfacing, reconstruction, patching and preventative maintenance schemes.
• Prioritise maintenance investment using condition surveys, inspections, asset data and risk-based principles.
• Manage projects through feasibility, costing, procurement, delivery and completion.
• Monitor scheme budgets, programme performance and contractor delivery.
• Identify and develop solutions to highway drainage issues that affect asset condition and network resilience.
• Prepare technical specifications, contract documentation and reports.
• Liaise with residents, councillors, contractors and internal stakeholders regarding maintenance programmes and scheme delivery.
• Support the continuous…