Technician - Highway Design

• This role provides the opportunity for hybrid working, allowing you to work either from home, subject to managerial approval, or from one of our offices.
• 28 days' annual leave (in addition to bank holidays).
• The contract offered is permanent and full-time (37 hours per week).

We’re working to improve the lives of people in Somerset – and you’ll be a key part of that. As a Highway Design Technician, you will provide support to senior engineers in the design of highway improvement projects, including Safety, Active Travel, Bus Infrastructure, Rural Mobility and Electric Vehicle Projects, using a combination of professional and technical knowledge. 
 Your day-to-day work will involve:

•    Supporting Senior Engineers in the development of potential highway improvement schemes through the feasibility and design process.
•    Supporting the process of Early Contractor Involvement throughout scheme design to take on board opportunities for value engineering, innovation and buildability.
•    Supporting the pre-construction phase of projects, including the development of the Specification and Works Information/ Scope in the required format 
•    Producing the scope for Road Safety Audits at relevant stages of scheme design and delivery.
•    Supporting design inputs during scheme construction.

We recognise the importance of a good balance between work and home life, so we do everything we can to accommodate flexible working, including working from home, with agreement from the manager. 

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

•    Level 2 qualified or equivalent to 5 GCSE’s including Maths and English. 
•    Level 3 qualified or equivalent to 3 A Levels. 
•    Have the aptitude to develop engineering knowledge and understanding, and apply technical and practical skills.
•    Have the aptitude to contribute to the design, development, construction, commissioning, operation or maintenance of products, equipment, processes, systems or services.

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.

Somerset is a great place to live, work and play, boasting plenty of beautiful sites – in villages and market towns – with a rich heritage of history and legend. Infrastructure is at the heart of our ambitions to support productivity and innovation, and we host the largest infrastructure project in Europe, Hinkley Point C. Highways play an essential role in our ambitions – we are a progressive Council that is transforming our highway services to significantly reduce carbon emissions. We’re a rural county with the tenth largest road network in the country. As the Highways Authority, we look after 6,600km of road, 2,000 bridges, 900km of ditches, 120,000 gullies and 52,000 streetlights. This network is growing too, with 9km of new highway every year, 9,500 planning applications every year and 700+ live development sites at any one time. We have over £50m of highway improvement projects in progress and planned involving both major multi-million-pound highway projects and more modest improvements in areas such as Safety, Active Travel, Bus Infrastructure, Rural Mobility, and Electric Vehicle projects. We require a range of roles to support design and delivery of these capital projects, to work with third parties in the delivery of works to both create new and improve the public highway, and support maintenance of our extensive highway assets.

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 the role is Grade 12, ranging from £27,711 to £31,067 per annum.

For an informal chat about the role, you can contact Emma Tucker on 01823 359523 or emma.tucker@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.

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