ITS Site Engineer

Are you seeking a new opportunity where you can make a real difference to the travelling public on our roads in Greater Manchester? Would you like the chance to develop your skills and experience and contribute towards maintaining and installing traffic monitoring and control systems across the city?

Your Role

We are seeking an ITS Site Engineer to join our busy Highways team. With support and training provided by our experienced Highways Engineers, you will install, maintain and support TfGM’s traffic and sustainable transport monitoring and control systems including traffic signal communications equipment, cutting edge video analytics sensors, CCTV cameras, automatic traffic and cycle counters and variable message signs spread across the whole of the GM highway network. In this role, you will also be provided with training to provide you with the sufficient health and safety knowledge to carry out this role effectively and safely.

For more information, please see the role profile at the bottom of the advert.

Who are we?

Greater Manchester is embarking on an exciting period of transition and evolving with a growing population and economy. Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) manage the largest number of traffic signals and transport technology systems outside London. The challenge of managing such a large conurbation offers the opportunity to gain a wide breadth of experience.

The ITS team design, implement and maintain technology and infrastructure across Greater Manchester, supporting the day-to-day operation and management of the transport network. This involves assisting in the deployment of on-street assets such as machine-learning video analytic sensors, to trialling new and innovative technologies. The team work closely with the ten districts of Greater Manchester, National Highways and a variety of suppliers in order to deliver a range of innovative solutions.

What you’ll bring

What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.

You must hold a full driving license. You will have knowledge and understanding of health and safety at the roadside, electronic equipment configuration, experience of communicating with stakeholders and providing excellent customer service. You will work both independently and as part of a team, depending on the task.

What we can offer you

We currently have a permanent opportunity to join us as a Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Engineer, providing the chance to gain experience of installing and maintaining various types of innovative traffic and sustainable transport monitoring and control systems. The salary is £40,650 – £45,107 per annum depending on skills and experience.

At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process.

Our benefits include:

• 28 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
• Free bus travel within Greater Manchester and free Rail or Metrolink travel to and from work within the Greater Manchester boundary
• Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Scheme which includes life cover of 3x your salary and options to increase your pension contributions
• Commitment to learning and personal development and upskilling with reimbursement of professional fees, where essential to the role
• We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to staff via our employee assistance programme when required
• Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.

What’s next?

If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we’d really like to hear from you. To apply please submit your CV and also provide a covering letter providing clear examples of how your experience meets the requirements of the role, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on either of these documents. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.

We embrace AI to enhance our operations and to innovate our services. However, we value human talent and are looking for passionate individuals to join our organisation. Please ensure you personally complete your application and read all the instructions carefully to maximise your chances of success. Applications that rely too heavily on AI may be rejected during shortlisting, however we understand that AI may be used as a reasonable adjustment, if using AI to support your application, please give a brief explanation why to help ensure fair selection process.

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application

Priority Recruitment Scheme for ‘At Risk’ NHS GM Colleagues
If you are currently employed by a Greater Manchester NHS organisation and have been formally identified as ‘at risk’, please indicate this within your application for the role. If you select ‘Yes’ and provide evidence that your experience meets the essential criteria described in the job advert and role profile, you will be guaranteed progression to the next assessment stage. Please ensure your application clearly demonstrates how you meet these essential requirements, as the guarantee only applies to candidates who meet them.

TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.

For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK – if in doubt please visit the following link Employers’ right to work checklist – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.

Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

NOTE TO AGENCIES we will be accepting direct applications only for this role. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral CV.

Supporting Documents

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