Principal Engineer (Traffic)
2 days ago
Oldham
Principal Consultant/Engineer • Location: Oldham, • Job Type: Full-time, • Hourly rate: up to £60 per hour Umbrella. Inside IR35. Day-to-day of the role: • Provide technical leadership in highway design, including road safety schemes, traffic management measures, and new highway infrastructure schemes associated with wider regeneration programmes., • Lead planning, programming, and project management for all funded schemes across their full lifecycle., • Manage the highway asset by procuring and overseeing annual condition surveys, analyzing results, and preparing evidence-based maintenance and capital programmes., • Lead on commercial and contractual obligations under Strategic Partnership Agreements., • Oversee and coordinate external consultants, designers, survey specialists, and contractors essential to scheme delivery., • Lead liaison with internal council departments, external agencies, contractors, developers, and stakeholders involved in scheme development and delivery., • Lead wide-ranging consultations, including public exhibitions and community meetings, ensuring positive representation of the Department., • Extensive technical knowledge of Traffic and Highways matters, including highway design, resurfacing, maintenance, traffic and safety engineering principles, and highway asset management., • Significant experience leading the design and delivery of highway safety schemes, traffic management improvements, new highway infrastructure schemes supporting regeneration, and capital resurfacing and major maintenance programmes., • Strong design awareness and ability to interpret technical drawings, standards, and safety audit outcomes., • Excellent project management and organisational skills., • Strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills., • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication capabilities., • Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and work collaboratively with external partners., • Politically aware, customer-focused, and capable of balancing competing priorities.