Job details

As a Chartered Senior Civil Engineer your main responsibilities will be: 

• To work in the Roads Operations team within the Roads Directorate, responsible for providing oversight and expert advice on electrical and lighting matters.
• The development of electrical best practice, policy and strategy to support colleagues in the delivery of annual programmes of lighting and electoral maintenance schemes.
• To be the electrical/lighting lead to support colleagues across Transport Scotland with advice and technical input/approval for key policy matters or scheme development and delivery.
• The development and oversight of our ITS investment / asset management strategy to embed Net Zero including through measures that support adaptation, energy conservation, use of alternative energy sources and carbon reduction.
• To support the provision, optimisation and wider use of traffic signals in promoting efficient road network use, the prioritisation of bus and other modes of traffic as required.
• Working with contracted maintenance agents and colleagues to ensure the effective management of assets and risks.
• To lead on Roads Directorate energy management, including financial oversight/Invoicing/forecasting, working with energy suppliers and implementing measures to drive down energy usage.

You’ll have relevant experience in:

• Lighting solutions : internal and external lighting for public and amenity
• Traffic signals, their use, installation and optimisation
• Electrical, electronics and telecommunications solutions and services
• Telemetry solutions and services, e.g., intelligent transport solutions, traffic signals.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with neil.young@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, Transport Scotland guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.