Traffic Systems Engineer - Refurbishment - Surrey County Council

This role has a starting salary of £42,958 per annum based on a 36-hour working week.

We are hiring a Traffic Systems Engineer to join our Traffic & Streetworks team, based at the County Council’s Network Management Information Centre (NMIC) in Leatherhead.

We operate an agile working policy which currently requires working with your team in the office twice a week, with site visits across the County required in line with programme delivery.

Our Offer to You

• 26 days' holiday, rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 31 days after 5 years' service (prorated for part time staff)
• Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
• A generous local government salary related pension
• Up to 5 days of carer's leave and 2 paid volunteering days per year
• Paternity, adoption and dependents leave
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
• Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
• Wellbeing and lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, and shopping
• A chance to make a real difference to the lives of our residents.

About the Team

The Traffic Operations team of Surrey County Council work together to ensure traffic flow is managed - delivering reliable and efficient low-carbon journeys through effective maintenance, innovative design and technology. We use smart data to manage congestion to the benefit of people travelling on the road network, while mitigating the impact of events and incidents that occur on Surrey roads.

Working in the Traffic Systems Refurbishment Team, you will be part of a progressive team delivering an annual programme of Traffic Signal schemes as required by Surrey County Council's Asset Management Policy.

About the Role

We are looking for a skilled engineer who can manage and design Traffic Signal refurbishment schemes in order to renew equipment and design improvements to Traffic Signals operation and future maintenance. You will be working as part of a small team of engineers to deliver an annual Traffic Signals Refurbishment Programme (circa £3m pa) and working jointly with our contractors to ensure projects are delivered on-time and to budget.

You will be allocated several Traffic Signal Refurbishment schemes, including complicated Junctions, within Surrey to project manage from initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, right through to closure. The work also includes design as well a project management such as creating pre-construction information, controller specification, CAD drawing, site meetings, overseeing planning and delivery, handling enquiries, commissioning the installation once construction is completed and ensuring project documentation is completed.