Overview
Senior Development Engineer – Permanent
This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Senior Development Engineer
- Job Location: Shire Hall
- Salary: £41,177-£47,191 per annum
- Hours per Week: 37.00
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Closing Date: 07/09/2025
- Job Requisition Number: 1997
- This post is open to job share
About the team and the role
Wanted – Experienced Highways Engineer to join our friendly Highways Development Management team in the beautiful county of Gloucestershire.
We are seeking someone with excellent technical skills ready to support with the high level of developer-led highway works and adoption applications we receive. This is an exciting, varied role, where no two days are the same, with many opportunities to expand your knowledge and skills across a vast spectrum of highway, transport, planning and construction disciplines.
The Senior Development Engineer will undertake comprehensive technical assessments of drawings and supporting information for highway authority adoption of new streets and associated highway improvement works such as priority junctions and footways/cycleways. They will provide thorough feedback to the developer and their designers, assessing each revision until technical approval can be granted and a legal agreement entered into. They will be directly involved in all aspects of the process from application to adoption, working collaboratively with many other internal and external stakeholders throughout.
This is an exciting time for a talented, self-driven highway professional 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
You will have direct experience of checking highway designs for section 38, section 278 and planning applications.
You will be very familiar with technical specifications and design guidance such as Manual for Gloucestershire Streets and the Technical Specification for New Streets, DMRB, MfS, MCHW, TSRDG, NPPF, LTN1/20 etc. along with various other relevant guidance, policy and legislation.
You will understand the requirements of APC Noticing, highway licences, planning conditions, Section 106 agreements and Traffic Regulation Orders.
You will have excellent IT skills, be organised, methodical, proactive and committed to your professional development within civil engineering and, more specifically, highways development management.
Ideally you will have experience of working in a local authoirty or public service and have experience of working with financial and sensitive information.
About Us
We are committed to investing in your development and operate flexible times and ways of working. While you will be predominantly working from Shire Hall, one of our offices or remotely from home, there will be occasions when you will need to visit site, either a live highway or closed construction site.
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 10 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, then 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 Hen Abbott on 01452 426645 or hen.abbott@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Closing date 7th September 2025
Short-listed candidates will be contacted by email and invited to interview week comencing 22nd September.
Additional Information
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-
Senior Development Engineer -Job Profile
The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have 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.
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