Transport Project Officer

Would you like to be a part of The London Borough of Hounslow, whose diverse workforce are committed to making a positive difference for our residents and visitors by ensuring the quality of our services are maintained to a high standard?

Hounslow Council is an outstanding council serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet, and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships across the borough which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place, full of potential, but a borough hit hard -socially and economically -by Covid-19. We have stepped up for our residents and businesses like never before.

About The Role

Your role will involve consulting, designing, and implementing a variety of Parking Management projects. You will communicate with a wide range of the community to consult on changes to the road network including parking restrictions and new parking schemes and to develop your understanding of the pressures from different users on the road network whilst considering the council’s carbon neutrality strategy.

As a core member of the Parking Management team, you will learn how our parking and services support and serve a wide range of residents and businesses in the borough. For example, assessing requests for waiting restrictions and liaising with Members and Members of the public. Providing day-to-day team support, you will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience of project administration, customer service and engineering delivery that will improve our borough and in the future.

The Transport Project Officer role is a career graded role meaning as your skills develop you can be moved up a pay grade. You will work across all teams within Parking Management which will give you an excellent understanding of the whole team’s work and place you in a great position for future progression.

Key Responsibilities:

• Feasibility, Design, Supervision of traffic/parking sche

• Carry out traffic /parking surveys and analyse results.

• Public Consultation, analysing results and report writing.

Your Skills:

• Be experienced in design with detailed applied knowledge of relevant standards such as Manual for Streets.

• Design traffic/parking projects using CAD, ParkMap etc.

• Specialist knowledge of relevant design standards, specifications, construction techniques.

• No essential qualifications are required for this role if all essential employee specification provisions are met. Master level Transport Planning or Engineering qualification or other sector specific postgraduate qualification desirable but not essential.

We value diversity in its broadest sense. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone is able to be themselves, give of their best and reach their full potential. We believe that a diverse workforce helps us to better understand our communities and deliver the best services for our residents.

We want to receive applications from all regardless of age, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background. We want to harness the mix and ensure that everybody can apply and be part of our recruitment processes. We will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates.

For more information about the role please contact Traffic@hounslow.gov.uk