About the role
North Northamptonshire is growing and evolving rapidly as a Council and as a Community. It is an exciting time to be joining us. With Growth comes development, from house extensions to urban extensions; warehouses to wind farms; one person’s dream, is another’s nightmare. Development is challenging, are you up for that challenge? The Development Liaison Team brings together the Council’s highway advice, highway adoption and highway agreement services supported by our partners in Kier Highways, this small but dedicated team needs you to meet the challenges ahead.
We look forward to you helping us shape our new and emerging communities whilst protecting our existing vibrant and beautiful historic towns and villages.
What will you be doing?
The Assistant Highway Development Liaison Engineer sits within the Development Liaison team of the Councils Highways and Waste services which brings together the Council’s highway advice, highway adoption and highway agreement services supported by our partners in Kier Highways. This small but highly effective and dedicated team needs additional support to continue to provide the high quality highway advice to our planning colleagues, elected Members, the public and developers. The post holder will support our highway advice service considering and responding to planning applications that affect the roads in our area as well as our team that considers and facilitates the adoption of new roads.
About you
Are you our new Assistant Development Liaison Engineer supporting the team and the Council to make sure that the impacts of new development is mitigated or inappropriate development is resisted?
You will have a high standard of education preferably at Degree level with a keenness to learn new skills, technical and legal processes that underpin modern development engineering.
Our benefits
We offer:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (27 days, rising to 32 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- agile and flexible working arrangements to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
About us
We are a new unitary council, established in April 2021; we are one of the largest unitary councils in the country.
Our priorities are:
- helping people live active fulfilled lives
- caring for our young people, providing them with high quality education and opportunities
- enabling a thriving and successful economy
- leading on a green and sustainable environment
- ensuring our communities are connected do they can shape their lives and where they live
- providing modern public services
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