Principal Engineer (Street Lighting)

Salary: £35,745 - £41,418

Grade: 10-12

Hours per week: 37

Nature of employment: Permanent

Location: Mobile and agile working in Huddersfield, HD1

About the job

As the Principal Engineer for Streetlighting, you will provide street lighting design and delivery service delivery service for council and stakeholder schemes. You will be working as part of a team involved with managing, maintaining and upgrading the assets and delivering a significant capital LED programme.

You will have technical and working knowledge with practical experience and excellent project management in design, financial management and delivery of engineering projects with an effectiveness to work in a culture of quick changing priorities, needs and resources.

Technical knowledge and understanding highway related schemes including safety, legislative, regulatory, and legal requirements, as well as contractual, industry standards, policy and relevant procedures and protocols and some knowledge of how local government operates. You will be confident at writing technical reports and delivering to key stakeholders and senior management.

You will be a strong leader, who can manage the performance of site-based workforce during our evening and flexible working models. You will motive, inspire and support junior team members, helping the learn, develop and progress.

You will manage a team with minimal supervision with the capability to manage a challenging workload subject to change at short notice. Proactive approach to negotiation and decision making. You will prioritise your own, and other’s workloads to meet programmes, budget constraints and deadlines.

You will be involved in the feasibility, planning, design, procurement, construction, implementation, financial and resource management of highway projects from minor works to large scale, multi-agency transport and public realm scheme.

You will represent Kirklees Council and show you are customer focussed, with a commitment to making a positive impact.

We are interested to hear from applicants that have experience of supporting or managing high value contracts in a highways, constriction or operational field.

Key role and responsibilities

• Leading and managing the team to deliver the street lighting service including managing budgets and resources.
• Leading the preparation of street lighting and electrical design.
• Undertaking the relevant duty holder’s role under the Construction Regulations 2015, in particular, Designer / Principal Designer.
• Preparing estimates, technical reports, feasibility, studies, design specification and contact documents, and carry out Project management to include programming and cost monitoring.
• Preparing and producing environmental Impact awareness reports, economic assessment and business cases.
• Contributing to compliance with the Quality Management Systems including site specific audits.
• Managing and delivering the LED capital investment programme and monitoring and reporting  on the associated Salix funding grant.
• Working on a daily basis with Councillors, MP’s and other stakeholders ensuring a prompt and comprehensive response.
• Engaging with clients, external partners, the councils internal construction team, Northern Power Grid and sub-contractors to provide and ensure a high quality service and performance.
• Managing the day-to-day street lighting inventory ensuring timely and accurate updates of the inventory so as to reflect energy savings and reduction of the carbon footprint.
• Managing and monitoring the street lighting energy budget.
• Being responsible for the wellbeing of yourself and others.

Benefits of working at Kirklees Council

• Competitive salary.
• Hybrid and flexible working.
• Generous annual leave and bank holidays, plus additional leave following continuous service.
• Professional develop to help drive your career forward.
• Personal development.
• A friendly and supportive team.
• Annual pay increments.
• Local government pension scheme.
• Employee healthcare.
• Childcare benefits.
• Staff shop initiatives and discounts.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Staff discounts at KAL.
• Pool cars.

To be shortlisted for this job, applicants must be able to show you meet each of the criteria in the ‘Person Checklist’.

Want to know more?

Call Daniel McParland, the manager for this role on 01484 221000 who is happy to have an informal discussion and provide more information.

We encourage applications from people with all differing abilities. If you need any support completing an application form, or require the details of job application in a different format, please call 01484 221000 and ask for ‘Recruitment’.

The advert will remain open until 31st December 2024, or until the vacant posts have been filled. However the manager will review any applications received by the following dates: 5th November & 2nd December then will shortlist favourable candidates thereafter.