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Job Reference staffscc/TP/907/4811

Apply for this job Number of Positions: 1 Contract Type: Permanent Full time Salary: £46,579 - £50,908 Working Hours: 37 Location: Staffordshire Place 1 Closing Date: 01/11/2026 Job Category: Highways/Transport/Traffic Directorate: Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Business Unit: Highways & the Built County

Job Introduction

This post is within the Highway Development Management team and is heavily focussed on transport planning and is suitable for professionals with a skillset and qualifications within that area.

Highways Development Management has a huge impact on people’s lives and is at the forefront of regeneration, redevelopment and plays a major part in everyday life for residents of Staffordshire and beyond.

It is an exciting time to start a career at Staffordshire and this job will provide you with great opportunities for career progression and to be involved in medium/large scale projects across Staffordshire.  The Highways Development Management team currently comprises of two team leaders who line manage a team of 14 staff who deal with approximately 3,000 planning applications a year plus pre-application advice.

If you are keen on working within a Highway Development Management role and protecting the County’s highway network and also helping to improve the transport facilities available for the people of Staffordshire as part of the planning process then this rewarding career may be the career for you.  

We offer a great employment package with a flexible environment of office and/or home working to allow for that work/life balance.

Main Responsibilities

As a Project Engineer, you will be part of the team providing detailed responses on planning applications as a statutory consultee. This will require you to have contact with a variety of Local Planning Authorities (LPA) ensuring  the relationship is a positive one and the responses to them are detailed and encompass all elements of transport and highway safe

You will also:

• prepare and issue comments, advice and recommendations relating to highway and transportation elements of planning applications; having regard to current design/transport guidelines.
• audit Transport Assessments and Travel Plans, within the experience, training and knowledge of the post applying GIS analysis techniques and other accessibility planning software.
• proactively instigate, encourage, and participate in pre-application discussions with developers to aid the development of sustainable estate street layouts/designs in accordance with relevant Design Guides.
• have the opportunity to attend an LPA planning committee to defend your reply as a statutory consultee to a planning application.
• prepare and give evidence in connection with appeals and Court proceedings under the Town and Country Planning Acts.
• assist in the implementation of Development Plan Policies and the Staffordshire Local Transport Plan.

 

 

The Ideal Candidate

The minimum criteria that will be used to shortlist for this role will be:

• to be a Chartered Civil Engineer or Incorporated Civil Engineer or a Graduate Civil Engineer, Transport Planner with post graduate experience or a HNC and post qualification experience.
• experience relevant to planning applications and of S278 and S38 Agreements
• experience of working in partnership with internal and external bodies.
• experience of the operation of agreements for the adoption of new streets and construction of off-site improvement works.
• experience of participating in multi-disciplinary teams.
• ability to work to time and budgetary constraints.
• a full driving licence.

You will also be required to support other members of the team who may have less experience than yourself.  On the job learning, coaching and mentoring is not unusual and is encouraged to create a positive can-do atmosphere within the team.

We are hoping to conduct the interviews on 16th November 2026 

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