Due to a continued workload, we are looking for an experienced Street Lighting Engineer to fill the role of Design Team Leader.

Your role will be to deliver the designs for street lighting, sign lighting and electrical connections to the highways team and provide lighting / electrical advice for other schemes.

The schemes are Highways Agency related and we need you to have detailed knowledge of design codes, regulations and statutory requirements (DMRB / MCDHW/ Electrical Safety Regulations etc). You should also have knowledge of the Highways Agency procedures necessary to deliver a highways project.

You will also be involved in identifying schemes that need to be considered in the Four Year Programme and aid the Bid Managers in the CVM process.

Other duties and requirements are:

• Professional and Technical Excellence in lighting / electrical engineering.
• Manage the workload for street lighting and electrical design to deliver the agreed outcomes for lighting and other renewal and improvement schemes.
• Provide advice to other teams in association with the Technical Manager.
• Ensure that the street lighting team has adequate training and resources in association with the Technical Manager.
• Manage external resources used for Street Lighting design in association with the Technical Manager.
• Agree the briefs, programmes and budgets with the schemes Project Managers / Design Managers.
• Monitor the designs produced to ensure they meet the design briefs set by the Delivery Teams.
• Ensure designs, studies, surveys and investigations are appropriate and meet the expected levels of technical excellence.
• Seek innovation in the delivery of schemes and techniques used to design and construct them.
• Ensure the IQMS system is actively applied to all works.
• Be the technical expert in street lighting and electrical engineering.
• Knowledge of the use of computer design tools
• Experience in the design and construction of highways schemes
• Detailed knowledge and experience of street lighting design
• Able to develop relationships and engender trust at all levels