About us at Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential.  We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock.  All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”.  It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates.  There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits.

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to lead our Community Scheme Delivery Team. In this role you will be part of the Traffic & Capital Delivery Team reporting direct to the Head of Service and be responsible of a range of projects from inception to implementation. Our projects cover small traffic schemes to multimillion pounds cycling infrastructure.

You will be working very closely with the elected as well as non-elected members of public and our delivery partners such as TfL and Hounslow Highways.  

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

The team comprises of senior engineers, engineers and technicians and project officer including any temporary agency staff. All working on community led projects and schemes funded by 3rd party contributions.

About You

If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:

A dynamic, proactive and experienced engineer/team leader who can see the bigger picture as well as keep a keen eye on attention of details. You should be driven by public service ethos with aim to deliver possible service to residents of Hounslow. 

Good written and verbal communication skills and comfortable working with members of public and their elected representatives. 

Fully conversant with MS suite and associated IT software used in developing and monitoring traffic/highways schemes.

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email: Aurang.Zeb@hounslow.gov.uk

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 26th August 2024.

(Please seek your line manager approval before applying for this role as secondment.)

To apply, please click “Apply Now”.

Closing date: 14^th August 2024