SLA04595 - Engineering Officer Development Management - DFF

Roads and Transportation Services

Location: Montrose House, 154 Montrose Crescent, Hamilton

Hours: 35 hours per week

Permanent

We are seeking to appoint enthusiastic, motivated and committed individuals to join our Development Management team, responsible for leading on development management matters for the Service.

You must have experience in road design standards, drainage, construction methods and preferably transportation assessments and traffic modelling. You should also have knowledge and experience of legislative and technical aspects in this area of work (e.g. Roads Construction Consent) and be able to assist with policy development in this area.

You should be able to work under pressure to specific deadlines and directions, whilst working as part of a wider specialist team.

Successful candidates must have a HNC in Civil Engineering, or equivalent in a relevant subject, and ideally you should be an Incorporated or Chartered Engineer or working towards this.

You must hold a current driver's licence as you will be expected to travel throughout the Council area.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of this specialist team tasked with driving forward the Council's economic development priorities ensuring we have the necessary supporting roads and transportation infrastructure to achieve this.

Previous applicants need not re apply

Closing date: Sunday 25 November 2018

Recruitment Checks

As part of our approach to good practice and safer recruitment we carry out a number of pre-employment checks for example, Identity, Asylum and Immigration and employment history etc.

As this post involves accessing the public services network, the preferred candidate will be subject to the Baseline Personnel Security Standards (BPSS). The preferred candidate will be subject to a Basic Disclosure provided by Disclosure Scotland prior to a formal offer of employment being made.

Delivering a FairerFuture - Under the Council's positive action programme, applications for this post are particularly encouraged from female applicants.

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South Lanarkshire Council are Equal Opportunities employees and encourage applications from all members of the community. As a user of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum competency/behaviour requirements for the position.