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 Principal 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 a Principal Engineer to lead the Highway Adoption and Highway Agreement functions. You will negotiate legal agreements including those under Section 38 and Section 278 of the Highways Act 1980. You will also lead on providing technical advice and support for the Council to ensure that developer proposals comply with appropriate local and national standards as well as working with developers to get new roads adopted.
You will be managing a small team with big responsibilities vital to ensure the Council’s aims and objectives of supporting appropriate development and growth are achieved.
About you
Are you our new Principal Development Liaison Engineer ready to lead our highway adoption and agreement services so vital to make sure new developments are served by the infrastructure necessary and which is compliant with appropriate standards?
You will be a suitably experienced and qualified engineer familiar with local government and developer processes, the planning system as well as the highway adoption mechanism. Your experience in highway design and managing a team with multiple schemes, balancing priorities and resources both internal and external will help us to deliver the services necessary to facilitate development.
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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