Overview
Pavement Engineer – Highway Depot (Huntingdon), United Kingdom
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About the role
It is the Pavement Engineer’s responsibility to act as an internal subject matter expert on asphaltic and granular materials commonly used in the construction of transport infrastructure. They will also act as an internal advisor on related geotechnical matters.
The post holder input into the construction of new infrastructure for schemes delivered by the County Council, it’s partners and private developers. It is the post holder’s responsibility to ensure ongoing liability and financial burdens in respect to highway maintenance and minimal. They must also ensure the long-term integrity of infrastructure such that future network disruptions are minimised and safety risks avoided.
In addition to the design of new infrastructure, the Pavement Engineer will support highway maintenance functions, both in relation to reactive repairs and capital improvements of the network, ensuring that the Council’s financial investment remains effective for years to come, thus reducing the quantum of future defects and ensuring good value for money is achieved.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Shane Luck (shane.luck@cambridgeshire.gov.uk), the County Council’s Highway Development Manager.
About you
Applicant’s are expected to have experience within the highway construction sector with comprehensive knowledge of their subject matters. They must have the ability and willingness to seek out new information, investigate problems and recommend solutions; they must be a good problem solver.
A flexibility work ethos is needed to manage a diverse workload. The post holder must be able to balance multiple competing priorities and triage demand accordingly.
Strong communication and collaboration skills are required as the Pavement Engineer will need to work with a varied list of stakeholders.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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