Senior Engineer, Operational Road Safety

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As a Senior Road Safety Engineer in our Operational Safety Traffic Engineering team, you will become part of a respected and ambitious company with excellent career prospects and international opportunities. You will use your knowledge and experience of collision investigation and prevention; road safety audit; safety governance and design to support the delivery of a wide range of road safety-related projects and activities, for various high profile clients across the UK.

You’ll join a team that has an enviable reputation in the UK Transportation consultancy sector as a result of a portfolio of high-profile projects with clients that include the National Highways (formerly known as Highways England), Transport Scotland, Network Rail, Welsh Government, National Contractors and numerous Local Authorities. Our plans to add to this portfolio continue at pace regionally and nationally.

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With our UK delivery centres growing nationwide, we can be flexible with regards to location and encourage applications from candidates looking for flexible working or reduced hours’ contracts. At Jacobs, flexible working is open to all employees and is simply the way we work. We recognise individuals have varying and evolving flexibility needs and wants. Regardless of reason, all employees can request to work flexibly, and each request must be treated with equal importance. Flexibility at Jacobs is about pushing boundaries, thinking differently, and exploring what is possible within the team and organisation to make flexibility work.

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  Degree qualified or equivalent, you will have experience as a Road Safety Engineer for road safety studies with the ability to contribute to the success of a range of high profile transport projects.
• Experience of minor works and highway design and the ability to develop road safety schemes through to detailed design.
• Chartered Engineer or equivalent (CEng; IEng; CMILT; TPP) or working towards chartered status.
• Member of Society of Road Safety Auditors (MSoRSA or FSoRSA) or eligible to achieve MSoRSA or FSoRSA
• Approved Road Safety Audit Team Leader / Member in accordance with GG119 for strategic network projects (National Highways; Welsh Government; Transport Scotland) including all mandatory requirements:
• Preferably holds a Certificate of Competency in Road Safety Audit (via a Highways Agency-approved route, currently TMS or SoRSA) or eligible to achieve this in the near future with support.
• Experience of operational management of highways especially motorways and trunk roads but also local roads
• Knowledge of the of STATS20 UK road traffic collision reporting requirements and experience in using the resulting STATS19 collision data and collision analysis and reporting.
• Understanding of UK Road Safety Audit (RSA) process GG119 (and preferably Transport for London’s SQA0170) and format and content of RSA reports.
• Experience in writing RSA reports, in particular the wording of ‘problems’ using the format required in GG119, and including identification and description of appropriate ‘recommendations’ to address the problems
• Understanding of UK signing and road markings requirements including TSRGD, TSM
• Strong working knowledge of DMRB and its use, in particular the main design standards for links and junctions and design aspects affecting operational safety.
• Experience in preparation of Departures from Standard (DfS) and/or documenting the safety relevance of the DfS
• Understanding of current urban design best practice including Manual for Streets, Manual for Streets II
• Understanding of National Highways safety governance processes set out in GG104 and relevant PCF safety products, including the Safety Plan and Combined Safety and Hazard Log Report. Experience of the specific requirements for safety risk assessments in accordance with GG104
• Experience of undertaking more general qualitative and quantitative highway safety risk assessments including description of hazards; underlying factors as they affect frequency of occurrence; likelihood of a collision and severity of injury.
• Ability to produce clear, precise and coherent analysis, report and narrative setting out the findings of road safety investigations including the evaluation of proposed highway developments through Development Control.
• Experience of undertaking Walking Cycling and Horse Riding Assessments and Review.
• Understanding of the specific needs of vulnerable user groups, specifically motorcycle/moped users; pedestrians cyclists and equestrians, and design issues affecting them. Guidance to designers to provide designs meeting these users’ needs.
• Ability to work both as part of a sophisticated multi-disciplinary team as well as possessing the ability to work independently to solve problems.

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