Traffic Engineer – Parking

• This role provides the opportunity for hybrid working, allowing you to work either from home, or from our Council offices.
• This role provides 30 of days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Permanent contract - 37 hours per week

The Traffic Engineer – Parking role is responsible for the design, delivery and implementation of new parking policies and parking related schemes, ensuring they are consistent, enforceable and aligned with Council policies and objectives. You will oversee all stages from concept to implementation, ensuring effective stakeholder engagement, budget management, and legal compliance.

Key roles for this position would include:

• Leading public consultations and pre-engagements, responding to representations and queries.
• Monitoring and managing project budgets, providing accurate forecasts and reports.
• Drafting consultation reports and collaborating with the TRO team to produce officer decision reports, ensuring TROs are legally sound and aligned with enforcement requirements.
• Lead, manage and supervise a team of traffic engineering technicians who will assist in the delivery of this role.
• Identify and delivery opportunities for service change and improvement. Review performance outcomes and customer feedback to meet customer requirements.

We offer ongoing support, training and guidance to help you be the best you can be. But it will really help if you have:

• A degree in Civil Engineering, Transport Planning, or demonstrate equivalent qualifications through relevant professional experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills as well strong analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of deriving practical solutions in challenging situations.
• Experience with Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs) and enforcement feasibility with knowledge of planning, budgeting, programming and delivering parking and traffic schemes.
• Proven experience in designing, managing and implementing parking policy changes and new parking schemes and a track record of leading public consultations and responding to public and organisational requests, complaints and representations.
• A deep understanding of Traffic Signs, regulations and general directions (TSRGD), Traffic Signs Manuals and Civil Parking Enforcement legislation.

We’re proud to be here for the people of Somerset. And that means everyone in Somerset. An important part of this is ensuring that we are as diverse and inclusive as the people and communities we serve. 

We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact the hiring manager for a chat if there’s anything you want to talk about before you apply.

We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset.

We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

• We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
• Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Staff discounts in gyms.
• Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
• Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
• A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
• My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more

The Salary for this role is Grade 10, ranging from £37,280 to £41,771 per annum.

For an informal chat about the role, you can contact Bev Norman, Head of Traffic Management at bev.norman@somerset.gov.uk

When completing your application/CV please provide your full employment history and ensure that any gaps in employment are explained. Please start with your current or most recent employment.

If you have all the information you need, just hit the apply button - we can’t wait to hear from you.