Maintenance Engineer - Traffic Signals

You will be working on a spectrum of projectsand prestigious schemes which give you variety and new challenges in your jobrole, designing, commissioning,constructing, maintaining and asset management of traffic signals around South Gloucestershire

We believe good engineering solutions make a positive contribution to our lives and help todeliver homes, jobs and better opportunities for all, whilst balancing this with protecting and conserving the natural and historic environment, country,and open spaces.

What will you be doing

• You will be carrying out periodic visual inspections of traffic signals at SGC sites in accordance with the routine maintenance schedule, accurately recording the asset and repairing any faults as appropriate.
• In the role you will attend, diagnose, and repair basic traffic signal faults to ensure our sites are operational, ensuring quality of repairs and work within safe working practices, carrying out dynamic risk assessments managing working sites to ensure site safety.
• Contribution to site upgrade or new installation decisions making judgements on the best action for design and specification.
• It will be your responsibility to ensure compliance with legislation and comply with guidance Safety at Streetworks and Road Works code of practice and risk assessing and then setting out sites on the live highway in line with national guidance ensuring that all workforce and public are safe.
• You will provide feedback for design and client functions, including specification, site trials, asset database, storage, new installations, and rechargeable works and communicate recommendations for kit, reduced function specifications for design and feedback for continuous improvement.
• You must be proactive in managing financial implications of all relevant tasks and at all times consider the cost effectiveness of repair or replacement and recharge works projects schemes when working for developer, to generate an income from time spent.

• You must hold a relevant qualification e.g. minimum of NVQ 3 or equivalent qualification, or equivalent relevant experience.
• It is essential that you have a working knowledge and experience of electrical installation and maintenance of electrical units in traffic signals and have traffic signal experience.
• We require you to have knowledge of relevant legislation and experience of safe working practices including H&S legislation as it relates to the operational tasks associated highway electrical installations and the role.
• You will demonstrate confident, practical knowledge of traffic signal maintenance best practice, techniques and working methods.
• It is key that you have an ability to identify problems and recommend workable and cost-effective solutions within time and resource constraints.
• You must be confident to complete documentation, answer technical queries and provide technical support to others sometimes working autonomously
• Proven experience of working as part of team is essential and expericne of meeting service standards, targets and deadlines.

• We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
• We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and developmentoffer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a realdifference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

• We’re providing essential services across our internal network to ensure we can fully support our community.
• We’re positive and forward thinking, always looking for new and innovative ways of working work and we’re ambitious about the future.

We’ve achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We’re making a difference, be part of it!