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About Us and The Role

The Planning & Highways Development Management Team, which is part of the Planning, Delivery, is engaged in supporting the continued economic regeneration of Warwickshire. The developments dealt with by the team vary in scale, location and complexity, and the team is responsible for providing statutory highway advice to the Local Planning Authorities, pre-application advice, carrying out technical approvals and inspections for new road adoptions associated with developments throughout the County.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and experienced engineer to join the team and focus on the getting all new residential roads across the county adopted through Section 38 of the Highways Act. The job description for this post is streamlined and therefore includes a broad range of duties and responsibilities. However, you will be capable of taking the lead on work within the team associated with Section 38/278/184 schemes including technical approvals and instructing Legal Agreements, work closely with colleagues to advise on the acceptability of planning submissions, and will have excellent communication skills to liaise with developers/agents, members of the public, Members and MP’s.

Whilst we are embracing an agile way of working, due to the nature of the role the ability to travel effectively throughout Warwickshire is essential.

For further information please see the Job Description & Person Specification.

Additional Information

For further details about the role please contact Pam Neal at pamneal@warwickshire.gov.uk

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!

Closing date: 14 March 2022.

As part of being a Disability Con dent employer we guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean that you must provide us with evidence in your application form which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required for each competence, as well as meeting any of the qualifications, skills or experience de ned as essential in the person specification.

Warwickshire County Council (WCC) is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce, this is because we really understand the importance of different voices, experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds within our workforce. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups. WCC has a number of staff network groups which provide peer support and safe spaces for employees who hold these and other identities.