Role: Highways Development Management Engineer REF 1715305
Contract Length: 3 months with a possibility to be extended
Location: Hybrid/Northampton - 1 to 2 days per week in the office (core office day is Tuesday in Northampton). Remainder WFH.
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £45 per hour
Spinwell is recruiting for a Highways Development Management Engineer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE HIGHWAYS DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT ENGINEER
- To provide professional advice to the Council, other Council disciplines and teams including but not limited to its planning, flood management, building control and highway maintenance functions as well as external partners on the transport implications of development proposals including road adoptions promoted within the public and private sectors, as part of the development plan or as individual sites, including representing the Council as its expert witness at planning inquiries as necessary.
- To prepare and issue statutory highway and transport related consultation responses to planning applications and all that this entails including site visits, layout assessment and any other matters relating to the planning consultation process including preparation of evidence for appeals.
- To provide impartial professional highway and transport related advice to the relevant council officers, committees and local strategic partnership groups and represent Highway Services in consultations with MP’s, Councillors, Police and Community Groups and individuals, by providing high quality highways advice and responses to issues raised.
- To secure, in association with council officers, appropriate levels of infrastructure / contributions to mitigate the impacts of major developments to support council’s aims and objectives in delivering sustainable development proposals and to administer individual Section 106 agreements and any other legal agreements entered into through monitoring incept dates, financial commitments and any other requirements placed upon the authority in administering its duties.
- Co-ordinating and managing the process of Transport Assessment checking. This will include:
- Scoping of Transportation Assessments with Developers/consultants to ensure that submitted Transport Assessments are prepared in accordance with council’s requirements
- Assessing submitted documentation in support of Planning Applications, such as Transport Assessments and Travel Plans. Considering the trip generation assumptions of development land uses (using TRICS for example), understanding capacity assessments (including ARCADY, PICADY, LINSIG etc.), and distribution and assignment of predicted development trips.
- Passing technical elements of Transport Assessments to other colleagues within the wider group and co-ordinating the responses, and liaising with developers/consultants on the outcome of this process.
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