PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS 

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £43,860 - £47,829 per annum (+Market Premia of Standard 10%)

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 28th November 2025

Interview Date(s): TBC

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Engineer within the Traffic & Safety Team at Leicestershire County Council. We are looking for someone to lead and develop engineering staff, whilst providing support to the Team Manager to provide high quality traffic management and road safety initiatives for the benefit of people living, working, and travelling in Leicestershire.

About the Role

This role will involve working alongside colleagues in the Traffic & Safety team, which covers a variety of areas such as Traffic Management, Road Safety, Road Safety Education, Bikeability and School Crossing Patrols.

As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for overseeing the design, appraisal and delivery of all new traffic-management and road safety schemes across Leicestershire. These projects will involve small-scale highway improvements such as new signing and lining schemes, Traffic Regulation Orders, Traffic Calming, Casualty Reduction schemes, highway public realm improvements, and active travel projects.

The successful candidate will have proven experience of working at a senior level in an engineering setting, with significant knowledge of current legislation, policies, technical guidance and standards - TSRGD, Traffic Signs Manuals, Traffic Management Act, CDM, LTN 1/20 etc. This also includes demonstrable experience of highway project management and working in a commercial environment in relation to civil engineering or maintenance projects and works programmes, ensuring schemes are delivered on-time to budget, quality, and cost.

The Senior Engineer role involves demonstrating exceptional leadership skills with the ability to lead and supervise a team both in technical aspects and performance management. This includes effective interpersonal skills, to provide strategic and technical road safety advice to colleagues. members, partners, stakeholders, and the residents of Leicestershire.

In addition to the above, the successful candidate will be required to write technical and non-technical reports, prepare and deliver presentations, and attend meetings with internal and external teams, members, and stakeholders. IT skills with fluid experience in the use of AutoCAD for interpreting maps and approving traffic schemes, along with MasterGOV, and Microsoft packages, are also essential requirements of the role.

The role involves working in a fast-paced hybrid working environment with significant responsibilities, diverse priorities, and challenging deadlines. If you enjoy thinking innovatively and developing forward-thinking solutions to complex traffic challenges, further information on how to apply for this role is listed below

About You

To apply for this post, you must have:

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for this role.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Fiona Blockley

Traffic & Safety Team Manager

 section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. 

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: . 

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