About the Role

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of the Highway Development team delivering high quality development across the borough. The role will act as lead Highways officer for the authority on highway agreements. The role is critical in managing the team’s day-to-day activities in accordance with its statutory requirements. Working closely with Planning and Highway teams, you will join a team delivering safe, accessible, and sustainable highways..

About you

We are looking for a highly motivated individual with a positive attitude to join our dynamic team. You will have good engineering technical knowledge and be able to work independently and as part of the team.

The successful candidate will have a relevant academic qualification in a traffic or highway engineering discipline and will have significant detailed knowledge and professional experience of Highways Development Control processes and agreements with experience in highway design and construction.

You will have a track record of successful negotiation and collaboration with developers, contractors, external agencies, and other local authorities. You will have a good understanding of civil engineering design standards, practices, and relevant guidance along with site supervision. You will be computer literate and have a good standard of written and spoken communication skills.

 
For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Mark Page; Mark.Page@royalgreenwich.gov.uk     .  

If you require any assistance in viewing or accessing this opportunity, please contact recruitment@royalgreenwich.gov.uk or call 020-8921-8977
 
Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

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How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statement addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statement section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

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