TECHNICAL BUSINESS SUPPORT OFFICER

Job Category : Engineering & Surveying

Location : Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

Hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:30

Salary: £12.50

The post holder will work as part of a multi-skilled Highway and Transportation Service within the Regeneration & Environment Directorate and provide technical assistance to professional staff particularly in the investigation, preliminary and detailed design, preparation and supervision of Highway and Transportation projects as well as day to day management of public transport and highway network management issues. Rotherham Borough Council operates a hybrid working system, where office attendance is subject to service requirements. Ideally the successful candidate should live within a 1 hour commute of Rotherham.

Key role objectives 

The post holder will work as part of a multi-skilled Highway and Transportation Service within the Regeneration & Environment Directorate and provide technical assistance to professional staff particularly in the investigation, preliminary and detailed design, preparation and supervision of Highway and Transportation projects as well as day to day management of public transport and highway network management issues. 

Technicians work in any one or more of the following areas of the service: –

•          Transport Planning, Policy and Programmes – technical and administrative functions delivering significant, multi-million pound, strategically significant transport policy, network management, asset management and investment scheme outcomes for the authority.  This work supports Rotherham’s economic growth, sustainability, safety and social inclusion and will involve working to deliver the Corporate Plan, Rotherham Transport Strategy, Local Plan and Rotherham Growth Plan. This area of work includes Programme and Project Management responsibilities.

•          Local Schemes, Traffic Management and Road Safety – engaging with key stakeholders to identify local transport system improvements and ensuring the provision of a high quality, efficient, customer focussed technical service to deliver a compliant service for Local Schemes Traffic and Road Safety, as well as holding responsibility for all network management and road safety issues held by the service. This area of work will also include working within the statutory duty areas of Traffic Management and Road Safety.

•          Scheme Development and Network Design – providing a high quality, efficient, customer focussed technical service, by preparing complex design and maintenance work packages and designs in accordance with recognised procedures, including provision of work instructions using engineering design standards and codes of practice and/or to act as CDM coordinator or project manager where appropriate.  Project Management duties are also key. This area also requires delivery of an effective Highway Development Control function as well as overseeing the maintenance, operation and improvement of the Council’s traffic signals and intelligent traffic systems (ITS). 

•          Infrastructure Delivery and Structures Asset Management – involves procurement and management of the performance of all works and services associated with the service, both internal and external, via agreements, partnerships and/or contracts with supply chain partners, such as Sheffield Mayoral Combined Authority, National Highways, Government Departments and external Agencies as required for successful delivery of the Council’s transport infrastructure programmes. There is a significant amount of engineering and construction project management work carried out in this area together with detailed proactive stakeholder engagement once schemes are underway.  This area also inspects and maintenances the Councils bridges, highway structures and reservoirs. 

•          Experience of working in an engineering design office environment and producing technical reports and of a practical knowledge and understanding of budgetary control

•          Knowledge, understanding and application of Health and Safety regulations, and ability to identify risks within personal sphere of work

•          Knowledge of safe working practices which would be applicable when working in the public highway and on construction sites.

•          Ability to use AutoCAD, Map Info and other proprietary software packages

•          Awareness or experience of understanding of the work of a Local Planning Authority and or of a Local Highway Authority.

•          Ability to undertake basic transportation and highways surveys

•          Using a range of computer applications and ICT including word processing, spreadsheets, databases, presentation software, internet and e-mail

•          Experience of designing and supervising highway or highway and highway structures schemes of a small or medium scale nature or individual elements of larger schemes.

•          Experience of highways or highway maintenance, highway structures, transport planning in a local government environment.

•          Knowledge of highway and traffic and safety legislation and its practical application. (e.g. Highways Act 1980, Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, Health and Safety at Work etc. Act, Construction Design and Management Regulations 2007). 

•          Practical knowledge of specialist IT software packages e.g. MX (Highway Design Software), Power Civil (Highway Design Software), Geosite ( Survey Software), Autocad, Key Signs, Key Lines, Autotrack, Symology, Superstress.

Job Specific Notes – include in the advert

Job specific qualifications       Transport Planning, Highways, Structures, or Traffic Engineering equivalent qualification or experience.