Highways Maintenance Engineer

What's involved with this role: Interim Highways Maintenance EngineerJob Ref: Bradford Pay Rate: £20.49 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday - Friday, 7.30am to 4.30pm Role Length: This opening assignment is for 1-2 months City: Bradford, YorkshireThe successful candidate will assist in the development of the Highway Asset Management Plan and other policies/plans related to the highway maintenance function. Maintain a detailed knowledge of highway assets appropriate to specialism. Contribute to the highway valuation process.The Highway Maintenance Engineer must have extensive experience in the management and administration of resurfacing, surface dressing, highway repair and road marking contracts.Key Responsibilities:

• Provide independent judgement, advice and guidance based on evaluation and analytical skills to produce alternative solutions to a wide range of complex engineering and procurement problems, formulate recommendations and solutions appropriate to technical specialism including, but not limited to, the provision of advice related to improvements secured through legal agreements with third parties.
• Carry out investigations, feasibility studies, concept designs, transportation studies, transport assessments, sustainable and integrated transport studies of alternative solutions to engineering and procurement problems as required including such schemes as may arise from the Local Transport Plan, revenue budgets and other external funding sources.
• Prepare feasibility designs, calculations, budget estimates, outline programmes, project briefs, work instructions for other Service units as appropriate in line with established QMS procedures.
• Act as the Engineer's Representative or equivalent in contractual matters related to civil engineering works including undertaking the supervision, inspection, monitoring and management of allocated construction projects ensuring compliance with documentation with regard to quality, methods of working etc. appropriate to experience and seniority.
• Undertake data acquisition, inspections, surveys and assessments in connection with role and undertake investigations appropriate to area of expertise including where appropriate with other public bodies. Prepare high quality written documents, statistical analysis and correspondence and maintain such manual or computerised records as necessary for the efficient and accountable operation of the Service.
• Be competent in the use of appropriate technical computer software necessary for carrying out your duties and recommend appropriate improvements to office systems.
• Prepare committee reports for the Constituency Area and other Committees.
• Contribute to the delivery of rolling programmes of works and schemes to achieve the Government's, Council' and Service's agreed objectives and targets in relation to highway assets including liaising with other external partners as necessary. Use appropriate computer modelling techniques to develop documentary evidence for programme determination and decisions including but not limited to, deterioration modelling, accident statistics, macro- and micro-simulation models and asset management records.

Qualifications:

1. HNC/D in Civil Engineering (pre-1999 intake) or related discipline OR BSc (Hons) in Civil Engineering (post 1999 intake), NVQ Level 6 in Civil Engineering or other qualification certified by the Engineering Council UK as academic base for Incorporated Engineer status.
2. Engineering Technician status or Fellowship of the Institute of Highway Engineers (FIHE).
3. Accelerated entry onto Engineering Career Grade with higher academic qualifications and Incorporated Engineer (See Engineering Career Grade) or Chartered Membership of the Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) qualification or Transport Planning Professional Qualification.

Skills & Experience:

1. Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
2. Must have 2 years' experience in Traffic, UTC, Highway Structures or Highway maintenance / engineering disciplines.
3. Knowledge of costs for products and services within own area of responsibility.
4. Able to analyse, interpret and present complex information from a variety of sources.
5. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside - there is no need for a full address.Please feel free to apply to us direct via by quoting the job reference and exact job title.If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market