About Us at Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential.  We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock.  All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”.  It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates.  There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits.  Read more about these on our website.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Community Scheme Delivery Team. In this role you will be part of the Councils Traffic & Capital Delivery Team working on a range of exciting schemes from inception though to implementation. Our projects cover small traffic and road safety schemes to multimillion pounds infrastructures. The post holder will manage projects with allocated budget and report to Team Leader Community Schemes.

About the Team You’ll Be Working In

The team comprises of a Team Leader, senior engineers and project officers and technician; working closely with Capital Projects and Network Management Team the primary focus is on delivery projects which are funded by the Council and contributions received from 3rd parties.

About You

If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:

• A committed, proactive and responsible engineer with a keen eye on attention to details.
• You should be driven by public service ethos with aim to deliver best possible service to residents of the borough.
• Good written and verbal communication skills are important. 
• Fully conversant with MS suite and associated IT software used in developing and monitoring traffic/highways schemes.

Qualifications:

HNC/BEng/MEng in Civil Engineering or similar and be working towards or have attained Chartered status of the Institution of Civil Engineers / Institution of Highways and Transportation or similar.

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

When Interviews Will Be Held and Who to Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email: Aurang.Zeb@hounslow.gov.uk

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 26^th August 2024.

(Please seek your line manager approval before applying for this role as secondment.)

Closing Date: 14^th August 2024