Parking Controls Design Engineer

PO1  £32,430 - £34,794 incl. London Weighting

Permanent Post 35 hours per week

The Royal Borough of Greenwich is undergoing major change with substantial developments under way with a major home building programme and the forthcoming arrival of the Elizabeth Line (Crossrail), with new stations at Woolwich and Abbey Wood.  These bring a range of longer-term challenges associated with the pace of new development, the continuing need to support local businesses and the predicted population and employment growth.

The Council’s Parking Services plays a key role in supporting these changes by ensuring the most effective use of parking resources and the successful movement of people and goods. This is critical to the vitality of the Royal Borough and the well-being of residents and visitors and existing and prospective businesses. 

Parking Services are responsible for the design, enforcement and management of parking controls across the borough.  The design team is responsible for developing designs for new Controlled parking Zones (CPZs) and other parking controls and restrictions and introducing disabled parking bays.

We are seeking to recruit an engineer to join our busy and dedicated design team.  You will have experience of undertaking all aspects of schemes including carrying out site surveys, preparation of designs and consultation documents, analysing consultation responses, report writing, implementing schemes and managing budgets.

Computer skills are essential – ideally you will have significant experience of working within a computerised office environment using a range of software including AutoCAD.

You must have a meticulous and methodical approach to your work.  The team deals with a large workload so you must be able to work on your own initiative, prioritise effectively and work under pressure as part of a team.

Closing date:  4th November 2020

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.

High Volume Applications: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should there be a high volume of applications received.

Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated

Internal to External: This opportunity has recently been advertised as an opportunity for current RBG employees (internal only advertising). Applications received during the internal advertising period have been considered and processed. If you were interviewed for this position via an application to this job advertisement during the internal advertising period, any further application will not be shortlisted.

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. If you have a disability and are unable to meet some of the job requirements specifically because of your disability, please address this in your application. If you meet all the other criteria, you will be shortlisted and we will explore jointly with you if there are ways in which the job can be changed to enable you to meet the requirements.

Interview Arrangements: During this time, our priority for all of our recruitment activity is to make sure our applicants, hiring departments and new starters are informed, safe and supported. Careful and thorough consideration will be given to interview arrangements and for any essential in-person recruitment, we will ensure this is held in a suitable, secure setting with additional arrangements to ensure any current safety requirements are fully adhered to.