Highways Site Engineer

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title: Highways Site Engineer
• Job Location: Shire Hall, Block 5, 5th Floor
• Salary: £38,510 - £42,123 per annum
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Closing Date: 01/11/2026
• Job Requisition Number: 14938
• This post is not open to job share

About The Team & Role

Are you ready for a new challenge? Looking to progress your existing skills in highway construction? Want to expand on your experience in the private or public sector? Then your new career could be right here! We have an exciting opportunity for 2 highly skilled Highways Site Engineers to join a busy Highways Development Management team in the beautiful county of Gloucestershire. As a Highways Site Engineer, you will take on a vital role, undertaking comprehensive site-based inspections and assessing technical assurance of highway and transport infrastructure works under Sections 38, 278 and 184 of the Highways Act (1980). You will work across Gloucestershire to ensure developer led infrastructure is constructed to the highest standards. Ensuring that only suitable assets are adopted to be maintained by the Local Authority. This will be done by providing technical site assurance and inspections, construction monitoring and risk management, providing technical advice and engaging with relevant stakeholders, monitoring compliance with Health and Safety, working collaboratively with Street works to assess Traffic Management and Network Impact, self-managing your workload and providing constructability feedback to engineers for technical assessment whilst also providing mentoring responsibility to developing members of the team. You will be responsible for inspecting the development works in your designated Districts although you may be required to work anywhere within the County if required. This is an exciting time for talented, self-driven highway professionals to join a team and County Council going from strength-to-strength, affording you the opportunity to play a crucial part in ensuring Gloucestershire remains a desirable location where people want to live, work, and visit.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have extensive knowledge of specifications and standards relating to the highway and construction sector along with experience of the on-site delivery of highway improvement schemes. You will have experience of working within CDM regulations, Road Safety Audits, Traffic Regulations and NRSWA and be familiar with related guidance and legislation such as GCC Technical Specification for New Streets, Manual for Streets, DMRB, TSRGD, LTN1/20, Tactile Paving Surfaces, Kerbing and SuDS. You will be capable of working independently with the use of your own vehicle and possess strong technical and engineering acumen, using this to generate regular work reports and carry out staged inspections, assessing works against approved drawings, specifications and relevant standards. You will be personable and professional, with a proven track record of providing robust technical solutions to complex engineering problems. You will bring your problem-solving skills and customer-focused nature to a talented team delivering a crucial service. You will be proactive and committed to your professional development within civil engineering and, more specifically, highways development management.

About Us

We are committed to investing in your development and operate flexible times and ways of working. Although you will be predominantly out meeting developers and their contractors within the County, you will also be working on your laptop in one of our offices or working from home. As you'd expect, we offer an attractive package of benefits which makes a career in Local Government both flexible and rewarding.

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• Flexible and agile working opportunities

• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service

• An option to purchase IO days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part- time staff)

• Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family

• Career development and qualification opportunities Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision

• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)

• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.

• An in-house Occupational Health service

• Employee discount scheme

• Cycle to Work scheme

• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&Cs apply)

• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network

How To Apply

If you believe that this is your kind of environment, and you have the skills, desire and experience required to make a positive difference.

Please submit your CV and personal statement today by clicking the "Apply Now" button. For an informal discussion about the role or how your skill set may match ours, please contact Sam Fletcher on Sam.Fletcher@gloucestershire.gov.uk

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-

Highways Site Engineer - Job Profile

Due to the number of applications we received, we are unable to provide feedback at shortlisting stage and reserve the right to close the advert early.

Applications from any Gloucestershire County Council's employees who are currently on the redeployment register or at risk of redundancy will be considered first at shortlisting stage.

The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have a right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months' employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer. / The council will consider sponsorship for this role, in line with Home Office regulations and subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.