Job Description

Senior Engineer Job description
Are you a passionate and skilled engineer eager to help improve highway infrastructure and enhance road safety?
Join our dedicated team and play an important role in the design, development, and delivery of essential highway construction, maintenance, and road safety projects that strengthen and improve our community. This is your opportunity to make an impactful contribution and help shape a safer and better future.
This is an ideal opportunity for someone who:

• Has extensive expertise in highway construction, maintenance, and road safety engineering.
• Has extensive knowledge of contract and project management techniques, including cost and quality control specific to highway maintenance projects

• Knowledge of theory and practice including regulations, legislation and processes specific to highway maintenance and road safety engineering
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of health and safety legislation and its practical application across highway maintenance, construction, and repairs.

Key responsibilities:

• Ability to plan projects and the work of others, including team members and contractors
• Ability to persuade and influence a wide range of internal and stakeholders, and motivate teams of technical staff
• Planning will typically be over weeks and months for a specific project, but the role holder will need to plan project work and deal with competing demands.

This is your chance to join a talented team improving highway infrastructure and delivering impactful solutions to shape our community.
Examples of some our recent projects:

• 1.5m Town Centre Improvement Scheme in Market Weighton
• 2m Town Centre Improvement and Public Realm Scheme in Pocklington

It is not essential that you have worked for a Council or the public sector previously, as appropriate mentoring and training will be provided.
The Council offers several benefits, including a generous pension scheme and leave allowance, various flexible working options and access to appropriate further training and education. This includes a training agreement with the Institution of Civil Engineers to coordinate both the academic and practical training leading to a professional qualification: either EngTech MICE, or IEng MICE, or CEng MICE.
Job title Senior Engineer Job Reference/Advert Number ERYC006000 Application closing date 11/08/2025 Location Infrastructure and Facilities Salary Blank Package Blank Contractual hours Blank Basis Blank Job category/type Highways, construction and engineering Attachments Blank Job description
Are you a passionate and skilled engineer eager to help improve highway infrastructure and enhance road safety?
Join our dedicated team and play an important role in the design, development, and delivery of essential highway construction, maintenance, and road safety projects that strengthen and improve our community. This is your opportunity to make an impactful contribution and help shape a safer and better future.
This is an ideal opportunity for someone who:

• Has extensive expertise in highway construction, maintenance, and road safety engineering.
• Has extensive knowledge of contract and project management techniques, including cost and quality control specific to highway maintenance projects

• Knowledge of theory and practice including regulations, legislation and processes specific to highway maintenance and road safety engineering
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of health and safety legislation and its practical application across highway maintenance, construction, and repairs.

Key responsibilities:

• Ability to plan projects and the work of others, including team members and contractors
• Ability to persuade and influence a wide range of internal and stakeholders, and motivate teams of technical staff
• Planning will typically be over weeks and months for a specific project, but the role holder will need to plan project work and deal with competing demands.

This is your chance to join a talented team improving highway infrastructure and delivering impactful solutions to shape our community.
Examples of some our recent projects:

• 1.5m Town Centre Improvement Scheme in Market Weighton
• 2m Town Centre Improvement and Public Realm Scheme in Pocklington

It is not essential that you have worked for a Council or the public sector previously, as appropriate mentoring and training will be provided.
The Council offers several benefits, including a generous pension scheme and leave allowance, various flexible working options and access to appropriate further training and education. This includes a training agreement with the Institution of Civil Engineers to coordinate both the academic and practical training leading to a professional qualification: either EngTech MICE, or IEng MICE, or CEng MICE.