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Senior Officer (Structural Engineering) - OCC613924

Employer
Oxfordshire County Council
Location
Oxfordshire
Salary
£47,420 - £50,512 per annum
Closing date
24 Mar 2024
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Job Details

Do you want to be a part of our team, improving the highway network, and helping us to make Oxfordshire an even better, safer, place to live, work and visit? 

About us

It is an exciting time to join Oxfordshire County Council’s Highways team. We’re determined to deliver a high quality, safe, sustainable, and reliable network. The service structure has recently been re-imagined, ensuring we’re best positioned to meet the high expectations of our customers, and evolving challenges such as climate adaptation.

About the role

Oxfordshire County Council is looking for two Senior Officers to work within the Highway Structures Team.

As Senior Officer – Structural Engineering (Highway Structures) you will join a dedicated team managing the County Council’s bridges, underpasses, culverts and retaining walls, prioritising public safety and climate action for a thriving economy, whilst maintaining/enhancing the assets function and helping minimising their whole life costs.  You will work with our consultants/contractors, to maintain, inspect, structurally review, assess and risk review mitigation measures and priorities for major refurbishment repairs, and help in the administration of the procurement of required consulting and construction works and aid in their supervision.

You will assist in the County Council’s role as highway structure technical approval authority for our own works, developer works, and assist in reviewing and approving utility company proposals which might affect the Council’s highway structures.

There are two Senior Officer (Engineer) posts. The service function is split into two roles, and each post holder will lead on one of these roles whilst providing support and cover to the other. 

Post 1 - Inspections, Asset Data, Routine, Cyclical, and Reactive Works

This role includes managing the inspection programmes, reviewing and approving reports arising from inspections, structural reviews and assessments, and helping in the preliminary identification and prioritisation of required construction works. 

This includes carrying out, managing, and regularly updating CS470 risk reviews with consideration for mitigation measure suitability and permanent works proposals. 

This role will establish work priorities and the associated annual funding requirements, with a five year look ahead, for maintaining different levels of health and safety risk and/or condition level of the assets, to help establish lifecycle plans. 

The post holder will have responsibility for developing and delivering a programme of routine, cyclical and reactive works.

Post 2 – Principal Works Programme 

This role is to lead on the implementation of the core programme of strengthening, renewal, and replacement of highway structures. The post holder will be responsible for the preparation and delivery of the principal works programme working with our appointed delivery partners. 

The role requires continuous review of the programme constraints, risks and opportunities, taking action as appropriate.

This includes managing the identified design and construction tasks, grouping, sorting and prioritising them in-line with the procurement process methodologies and timing of when resources may become available to perform the desired tasks. 

The role requires the concurrent management of many projects for which briefs will need to be prepared. 

Significant programme change, and its impacts may need to be managed as part of the process. 

For both roles you will be familiar with the latest design/assessment standards and be able to carry out structural inspections, assessments and designs in varying materials, and be able to prepare reports, drawings and works specifications. 

Whilst the majority of structural design work is intended to be carried out by our delivery partners it is intended to develop the Council’s in-house ability. The Council carries out its general inspections in-house, whilst principal inspections, assessment reviews, assessments and CS470 risk reviews are generally carried out by or with assistance from our delivery partners and their supply chain, but it is again wished to enhance in-house abilities. 
 

About you

You will be educated to Degree level or equivalent with relevant professional qualification or equivalent.

You need a full driving license, with access to and using your own vehicle

You will be proficient in Microsoft Office programmes

You will have extensive, demonstrable technical knowledge in highway structures and experience in relation to National Highways standards, Euro-codes, MCDHW Specification and Methods of Measurement and NEC Conditions of Contract. 

Experience in highway structure inspections, structural reviews, assessments and management of substandard structures.  

You will be comfortable in preparing risk assessments, works details, specifications, health and safety information, and managing contracting delivery partners.

You will be adept at positively representing the County Council; whether that be in person, or through written correspondence.

You will have a strong programme approach to all aspects of service delivery and be able to use these skills to good effect in effective reporting, and ensuring intended outcomes are achieved. 

The designated work location will be in County Hall, Oxford, although much of the work is anticipated to be able to be carried out whilst agile working, (i.e. other offices in Oxfordshire or from home). You may be occasionally required to carry out site visits to highway structures, for accident damage inspection, for helping determining scope of required works or for assisting in supervision of construction works etc. 

Rewards and benefits

•    Culture of flexible working 
•    Technology to support agile working where role permits
•    Up to 33 day’s holiday p.a. plus bank holidays
•    Option to ‘buy’ additional holiday
•    Employee Assistance Programme including access to health and wellbeing support
•    Membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme, with an employer’s contribution of up to 19.9%
•    Enhanced family friendly policies
•    Local and national discounts for shopping and travel
•    Great learning and development opportunities to support your ongoing development.

Would you like to know more?

Please click here to view the Job Description and Selection Criteria 

For an informal discussion about the roles please contact Robin Calver, Team Leader - Highway Structures at robin.calver@oxfordshire.gov.uk  

To apply please click the Apply Now link below.

Company

Thank you for your interest in joining our team at Oxfordshire County Council. You’re potentially just a few steps away from the best career decision you’ll ever make. With exciting changes in the local government environment coming soon, it’s the perfect moment to join us.

You may already know that we're the local authority for Oxfordshire, committed to delivering top quality services and value for money on behalf of the county's 800,000+ residents. These services range from museums and libraries to the disposal of waste, from the maintenance of our roads to the provision of adult and children’s social care services. We employ almost 5,500 people to deliver those services.

Here are some of the things that you might not know about us:

  • We received a Best Companies 1 Star accreditation in 2024 with a focus on Wellbeing, Fair Deal, and My Manager.
  • We were ranked the 9th Best Big Company to Work for in the UK in 2024 by Best Companies.
  • We were ranked the 6th Best Not-for-Profit Body to Work for in the UK in 2024 by Best Companies.

What makes us special?

Whatever you do, you’ll be able to look around and say, “I made a difference”. Because we’re all bringing lasting change to people’s lives in Oxfordshire. Every day, you’ll be challenged in a new way, supported by your team, in an organisation that is free-thinking, flexible, and helps people achieve their ambitions. Working for us, you can create a unique career for yourself – while raising the bar for the future of the UK public sector, together.

Our focus for the past year has been shaping our organisation to be successful and sustainable for the future. We’re on a journey to Deliver the Future Together and become:

  • An employer of choice, where everyone recommends working here
  • A partner of choice, nurturing purposeful relationships with partners who feel well supported by us
  • A place shaper of choice, where we act as a convener across public, private and community groups to shape and lead an ambitious and more equal future for our place and our residents

Delivering the Future Together

We’re on an exciting journey to Deliver the Future Together. By embracing change and new ways of working, we’ll secure a successful and sustainable future and achieve our goals of becoming an employer, partner and place shaper of choice.

Our future challenges

As we move into the future, the nature of the challenges we face and how we respond will be very different. Having leaders that can create and lead an organisation that is forward thinking, collaborative, and inclusive, which embraces continuous improvement and holds itself to account will be important in addressing these challenges.

Leading through our values and behaviours

Our values are at the heart of all we do here at Oxfordshire County Council. We all share a common purpose to deliver excellence for the residents of Oxfordshire. Our 5 values act as a guide to how the organisation and our people should approach everything we do. Leading through these values every day, putting them front and centre of every behaviour, decision and action will unite us as we strive to deliver this excellence together. By doing this we will attract and retain great talent, we will reward great performance, we will create a positive environment where people can thrive and grow, we will nurture talent and create excellent leaders for now and the future.

Our purpose

We’re proud of the job we do and the communities we serve. We provide over 800,000 local people and businesses with day-to-day services they can trust. Join us and help shape the future for Oxfordshire.

How we work

With us you'll get the care and support you need to develop. If you like a bit of variety, or thrive on innovation, then you’re in the right place. We’ll give you plenty of opportunities to make your job as different and interesting as possible.

Your career journey

We need the best from our team and want them to enjoy what they do. Coaching and mentoring schemes, regular one-to-ones, on the job training and review, and an online portal to help you manage your own development - it’s all designed to help you grow in your role.

Financial perks

We offer competitive pay and up to 32 days paid holiday every year, with the chance to buy more. You’ll also be enrolled into our pension scheme where we contribute 19.9 per cent. For some roles there is also help with relocation expenses and settling in costs. Our bike and green car purchase schemes also make moving around financially flexible.

Family friendly

Family comes first, that’s why we’ve built a range of different benefits to support you. As well as our flexible ways of working around the role you do, you can make the most of our maternity and paternity schemes, and tax-saving childcare vouchers. But family isn’t just about the kids. If you have elderly relatives to care for, we’ll help out there too.

Rewards and recognition

With Vivup highfive, our colleague recognition scheme, we celebrate success across the organisation. Vivup also gives great savings on holidays, insurance, eating out and more.

Health and wellbeing

Wellbeing is a big priority for us. You’ll get access to a range of different support opportunities such as our round the clock employee assistance programme. Salary Finance is also on-hand to help with financial wellbeing. There’s also the chance to manage your health and wellbeing through regular one-to-one sessions and team meetings.

The environment

We’re committed to Oxfordshire becoming net-zero by 2030 and enabling us to be carbon neutral before 2050. Our Climate Action Framework sets out how we will tackle climate change. We’re also signed-up to the UN’s Race to Zero, a global campaign to bring individuals, businesses, and the public sector together to fight the climate crisis.

Feeling inspired? Join us and help us shape our 2025 moments and beyond!

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Telephone
01865 792422
Location
County Hall
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Oxfordshire
United Kingdom

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