Are you passionate about delivering change that has a long-lasting, positive impact on people’s lives and where they live? Can you collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders in an inclusive and accessible manner? Do you enjoy delivering projects, ensuring that the customer's needs are at the forefront?

This is an exciting opportunity to join a service that has a direct influence on the way people live and work around Brighton & Hove. We are one of the busiest unitary Authorities outside London and this role will be central to managing traffic control schemes within the city.

We are looking to recruit a Senior Traffic Engineer focusing on ensuring the city’s regulation signage and Traffic Regulation orders enables residents and visitors move around the city in a controlled and safe way and that Brighton and Hove City Council can meet their statutory responsibilities.

Fixed term for: 18 months

For an informal discussion, please email David Fisher - Highway Regulation Manager on david.fisher@brighton-hove.gov.uk

This role is available as a secondment to internal applicants in line with our secondment policy.

About the role

We would love you to bring your skills, knowledge, and experience to:

• Ensure that the council is meeting its duties and responsibilities in regard to regulation and directional signage across the city
• Provide project support/lead for minor projects to improve traffic management
• Support TRO drafting and implementation
• Work across City Transport supporting colleagues with sign design ensuring it meets the guidance in TSRGD
• To direct and implement the Traffic Management Strategy to ensure that traffic movement is managed as efficiently as possible.
• Work with contractors and designers to create a safer place for the residents and visitors to Brighton and Hove, whilst achieving the City’s aspiration of achieving Carbon Net Zero by 2030.

It’s for good reason that the City of Brighton & Hove has been named as one of the happiest places in the UK. With its stunning location between the sea and the South Downs National Park, excellent connections to the capital, vibrant culture, rich heritage, and diverse communities, there is

The city places emphasis on high-quality, forward-thinking, sustainable development and environmentally aware solutions. As a council we are committed to creating a more liveable city in which residents and visitors feel healthier, safer, more socially connected and included.

You will be based in our modern, open plan offices and traffic control centre in Hove Town Hall and benefit from flexible working, including homeworking. Joining an enthusiastic and supportive team, you will collaborate with colleagues from a range of fields and experiences.

This role is part of a newly expanded team that will respond flexibly and efficiently to the growing development demands of the city.

We encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, LGB, female or trans as these groups are currently under-represented in our Directorate workforce.

We offer great terms and conditions including the Local Government Pension Scheme, excellent training and development, generous annual leave and staff discounts.

For an informal discussion, please email David.fisher@brighton-hove.gov.uk

Closing date: 18 November 2024.

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Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

Additional information

Part office / part home – hybrid - We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining.

Company information:

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce.