Principal Engineer, Highway Agreements

We have a fantastic opportunity as a Principal Engineer for Highways Agreements to have day to day influence and decision making over highway agreements and our S38/S278 developments. Together with line management responsibility of several people supported by the opportunity for management qualifications to be taken alongside.

The wider Transport & Development team includes the transport development management function and it is expected that the Principal Engineer will strengthen our existing collaborative style of working, getting involved and influencing at early stages highway designs through the planning process.

We are looking for a motivated individual who can overhaul our current processes and shape a customer facing service that is best in class. To support you in this there is a Senior Engineer, two Clerk of Works plus dedicated technical support.

We are looking for a well organised, resilient individual with excellent communication and report writing skills.

You will be an integral part of large scale regenerative developments in our UNESCO World Heritage City, beautiful market towns and villages getting involved and influencing concept design prior to planning approval.

Our district offers you a great place to live and work, having a stunning blend of countryside, villages, and towns as well as Bath of course, a World Heritage Site.

Your main place of work will be the award-winning, modern Civic Centre in Keynsham, halfway between Bath and Bristol, easily accessible via car or public transport, with a train station 5 minutes' walk away., About Bath & North East Somerset Council.

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