Estimator and Surveyor (Traffic Signals)
Newcastle City Council
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom£40,777 - £45,091 per annum (pay award pending)Closes: 17 Jul
Estimator & Surveyor (Traffic Signals)
Network Management and Construction
Our work in the Transport Division impacts on the economy, the environment and equality. Our purpose is to improve people’s daily lives and their longer-term health, wealth and happiness. It’s about people and neighbourhoods and providing the right places to enjoy their lives. Our city’s transport infrastructure can play one of the most important roles in helping the people of our city make healthy choices for them, their family, and friends.
The Transport division are committed to delivering services that will help Newcastle develop into the UK’s safest, most accessible, and best integrated multi modal carbon efficient transport system thereby ensuring the future economic growth of the city. We have excellent expertise across the Transport division and are committed to delivering resilient, customer focused and high-quality services.
What the role will involve?
If you aspire to really make a difference and are passionate about delivering effective services, then working as an Estimator and Surveyor within our Traffic Signals team, part of Network Management and Construction within the Transport Division, could be the place for you.
This is an exciting time to be joining the team as we are working to deliver major transport improvement schemes with partners both in Newcastle and the other northeast local authorities.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, self-motivated Estimator and Surveyor. The role will be involved with all stages of Traffic Signals projects, working closely with designers, managers and stakeholders to ensure estimates, works orders and claims are accurately recorded and then invoiced to relevant stakeholders following final measures of the completed projects.
Who are we looking for?
The successful post holder will have a proven track record and recent experience of working across all estimating and surveying functions. We are looking for someone with a detailed knowledge of highway design and construction, who can engage with clients at all stages of their project to provide professional advice, and has experience of preparing and processing valuations, final accounts and contractual claims.
You will be confident and competent in using IT systems to record and implement actions, be able to work unsupervised and manage your own workload.
What can we offer you?
If a competitive salary and pension with the option to opt in to an AVC scheme wasn’t enough you will also have:
Access to learning and development opportunities including a comprehensive corporate induction programme, access to e-learning, an annual performance appraisal, upskilling apprenticeships, access to Learning Resource Centres
A rewarding and most importantly access to a challenging career.
Additionally, we also offer you retail discounts on hundreds of the UK’s highstreet and online retailers including travel, dining out, mobile and broadband from the point of receiving your offer of employment.
Who we are
Newcastle is an ambitious City, it always has been. Its’ an iconic City with a rich heritage but one that also shapes the future of the region.
Here at Newcastle City Council we have a real passion to improve the lives of residents and visitors in the City through the wide variety of essential public services we deliver and the relationships we influence. From our City leaders, to every member of our team, we’re all committed to making Newcastle a City that is vibrant and thriving.
Our values
Everyone who works within one of our valuable public services makes an important contribution to delivering our vision and priorities of the city. How we do things is as important as what we do. In everything we do we strive to embed and live the Councils values
Proud
Fair
Ambitious
Why work for us?
We strive to be an organisation where equality, diversity and inclusion is part of who we are and how we work and where every member of our team is treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to building an inclusive and supportive workplace where you can bring your whole self to work and succeed in being your best.
Our people deliver amazing services, initiatives and projects to benefit the lives of our residents. They also develop, manage, and maintain the City’s vital infrastructure and public spaces that our societies and communities rely on.
If you want to become an integral part of the team to make a citywide difference for our residents and visitors, then we want to hear from you.
For more information on the post, contact Michael Richards via email michael.richards@newcastle.gov.uk
Apply online at www.northeastjobs.org.uk, select 'Apply Now' and complete our online application form. Before completing the form please ensure you read the supporting documents. Any communication sent to you regarding your application will be sent to the email address you have set up on your Northeast Jobs account, so you will need to ensure that you check your inbox.
Network Management and Construction
Our work in the Transport Division impacts on the economy, the environment and equality. Our purpose is to improve people’s daily lives and their longer-term health, wealth and happiness. It’s about people and neighbourhoods and providing the right places to enjoy their lives. Our city’s transport infrastructure can play one of the most important roles in helping the people of our city make healthy choices for them, their family, and friends.
The Transport division are committed to delivering services that will help Newcastle develop into the UK’s safest, most accessible, and best integrated multi modal carbon efficient transport system thereby ensuring the future economic growth of the city. We have excellent expertise across the Transport division and are committed to delivering resilient, customer focused and high-quality services.
What the role will involve?
If you aspire to really make a difference and are passionate about delivering effective services, then working as an Estimator and Surveyor within our Traffic Signals team, part of Network Management and Construction within the Transport Division, could be the place for you.
This is an exciting time to be joining the team as we are working to deliver major transport improvement schemes with partners both in Newcastle and the other northeast local authorities.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, self-motivated Estimator and Surveyor. The role will be involved with all stages of Traffic Signals projects, working closely with designers, managers and stakeholders to ensure estimates, works orders and claims are accurately recorded and then invoiced to relevant stakeholders following final measures of the completed projects.
Who are we looking for?
The successful post holder will have a proven track record and recent experience of working across all estimating and surveying functions. We are looking for someone with a detailed knowledge of highway design and construction, who can engage with clients at all stages of their project to provide professional advice, and has experience of preparing and processing valuations, final accounts and contractual claims.
You will be confident and competent in using IT systems to record and implement actions, be able to work unsupervised and manage your own workload.
What can we offer you?
If a competitive salary and pension with the option to opt in to an AVC scheme wasn’t enough you will also have:
- A generous annual leave allowance.
- The option to buy additional annual leave.
- Access to family friendly policies including maternity and adoption leave, maternity support leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, special leave, leave when caring for a terminally ill dependent, leave for armed forces reservists, disability related special leave, career breaks and paid leave to support the electoral process.
- An enhanced work life balance including agile working, part-year working, compressed hours and flexi time where appropriate.
- Access to numerous salary sacrifice schemes including home electronics, car lease and gym membership.
- Access to physiotherapy, counselling services and eye tests for VDE users through our Occupational Health Service.
- Access to an extensive wellbeing programme including access to a 24 hour employee assistance programme for you and your immediate family.
- Access to Mental Health First Aiders.
- Ability to join staff network groups to meet and share information and raise awareness and include, Black and Minority Ethnic network, Disabled Employee network and LGBT+ network
- Ability to join a trade union.
- Access to a staff travel scheme.
Access to learning and development opportunities including a comprehensive corporate induction programme, access to e-learning, an annual performance appraisal, upskilling apprenticeships, access to Learning Resource Centres
A rewarding and most importantly access to a challenging career.
Additionally, we also offer you retail discounts on hundreds of the UK’s highstreet and online retailers including travel, dining out, mobile and broadband from the point of receiving your offer of employment.
Who we are
Newcastle is an ambitious City, it always has been. Its’ an iconic City with a rich heritage but one that also shapes the future of the region.
Here at Newcastle City Council we have a real passion to improve the lives of residents and visitors in the City through the wide variety of essential public services we deliver and the relationships we influence. From our City leaders, to every member of our team, we’re all committed to making Newcastle a City that is vibrant and thriving.
Our values
Everyone who works within one of our valuable public services makes an important contribution to delivering our vision and priorities of the city. How we do things is as important as what we do. In everything we do we strive to embed and live the Councils values
Proud
Fair
Ambitious
Why work for us?
We strive to be an organisation where equality, diversity and inclusion is part of who we are and how we work and where every member of our team is treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to building an inclusive and supportive workplace where you can bring your whole self to work and succeed in being your best.
Our people deliver amazing services, initiatives and projects to benefit the lives of our residents. They also develop, manage, and maintain the City’s vital infrastructure and public spaces that our societies and communities rely on.
If you want to become an integral part of the team to make a citywide difference for our residents and visitors, then we want to hear from you.
For more information on the post, contact Michael Richards via email michael.richards@newcastle.gov.uk
Apply online at www.northeastjobs.org.uk, select 'Apply Now' and complete our online application form. Before completing the form please ensure you read the supporting documents. Any communication sent to you regarding your application will be sent to the email address you have set up on your Northeast Jobs account, so you will need to ensure that you check your inbox.