Senior Street Lighting Designer - Exeter, United Kingdom - Amey plc

Amey plc

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Exeter, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About Amey:
Do you enjoy solving real-life problems and creating a positive impact on society? Do you want to work flexibly in a way that empowers you?

With Amey Consulting, you'll work with high profile infrastructure organisations, giving you the unique opportunity to bring ground-breaking work to life.

Your solutions will have impact, making a genuine difference to people's lives. You'll work in a growing team that is inclusive, open-minded and where your professional development can thrive.

It's where you

feel valued and

alive.

Fresh Challenge, New Opportunity:

Amey Consulting's Highways teams impact the journeys of millions across the UK, by working in partnership with a range of clients and providing consultancy design services for Strategic and Local Highway networks.

We are passionate about the highways projects that we design and take pride in seeing our towns and cities thrive by improving connectivity, journey times and quality of life.

National Highways, formerly Highways England, have named Amey Consulting as a Design partner to support the delivery of the largest and most comprehensive renewals programme that National Highways have ever launched.

The £3.6bn Scheme Delivery Framework (SDF) enables National Highways to procure Design and Construction services across the Strategic Road Network for the next 6 years.

The Role:

As a result of this framework win, we are recruiting a Senior Street Lighting Designer.

In this role you will work within the Lighting Design team and alongside our client, National Highways.

As a Senior Designer you will provide effective support and assistance to your Design Team Leader on a variety of highways schemes whilst taking the lead on projects and mentoring junior designers.

We strongly encourage the development towards a professional qualification with a recognised Institution and pride ourselves on mentoring engineers.

We offer tailored support towards professional accreditation (IEng/CEng), and you will be rewarded with a bonus of up to £5k on completion.

In a typical week:

Lead on the delivery of scheme design, as well as providing support to the Design Team Leader within the design team on various design duties including:
Surveys/Inspections
Feasibility and other technical reports
Planning, programming and cost estimation
Design production
Production of design schedules
Reviewing and amending design drawings
Production of Specifications
Supporting development of Graduate Engineers and Technicians
Work to programme to deliver specified designs on time
Drive effective health and safety practices within your team
Liaise with the Client and our Community partners to ensure solutions that are developed are suitable for buildability and maintainability
Prepare technical reports (e.g. Feasibility/Options Reports, Assessment Reports and other technical reports)
Represent the business stream in multidisciplined project teams
Assist in the preparation and monitoring of the budget for projects including the planning, monitoring and reporting of project resources
Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with the client and other relevant stakeholders
Represent the business stream in multidisciplined project teams
Assist in the preparation and monitoring of the budget for projects including the planning, monitoring and reporting of project resources
Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with the client and other relevant stakeholders
Ensure innovation and best practice is highlighted and adopted where practicable
Ensure compliance with all relevant technical standards
Carry out site surveys, inspections and supervision of junior colleagues on site
Keep up to date with your own personal development to ensure the natural growth of the team

We want to hear from you if:

Developed experience and expertise within Street Lighting engineering, probably gained in a Designer/Engineer role or equivalent
Comprehensive knowledge of design processes and procedures relevant to the engineering discipline
An ability to produce or oversee the production of technically sound engineering solutions, complying with all relevant technical standards and client requirements
Experience in undertaking project related tasks associated with health, safety and welfare, e.g. Construction (Design and Management) Regulations
You are happy to agree a programme of actions towards successful achievement of industry recognised qualifications, ie Incorporated or Chartered Engineer with a relevant body
Good commercial awareness and knowledge of budgets and programmes

In return:

Our rewards make us feel valued here at Amey Consulting. If you're happy, you'll think better. It's a simple formula but one that puts your wellbeing as a top priority, that's why we've worked hard to build a reward and benefits program that puts you first, including;