Transport Officer - Road Safety

Job Description

Place

Transport Officer- Road Safety
Waverley Court

Salary: £37,626 - £44,257
Hours: 36 per week

The Road Safety team are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic colleague to promote the delivery of critical road safety programmes and contribute to casualty reduction on our road network.

Our priority projects across the service include:

• Accident Investigation and Prevention

• Customer relationship and communications

• Pedestrian crossing infrastructure

• Speed reduction measures including surveys and intervention

• Delivery of speed limit reductions and other traffic regulation orders

• Engagement with our School Communities to deliver safe environments around all our schools

• Developing School Travel Audits and delivering appropriate infrastructure

• Delivery of the Road Safety Audit service

• Offering sound road safety advice to various internal and external stakeholders

• Supporting the development of progressive road safety strategies, considering predictive risk including the preparation of committee reports

The postholder will play a key role in the successful delivery of the Road Safety Action Plan for Edinburgh to 2030. We are seeking a highly motivated, experienced and enthusiastic individual to undertake this challenging but rewarding role.

The proposed Action Plan contains a series of ambitious targets, including zero fatalities and at least a 50% reduction in people seriously injured on the city’s streets by 2030.

You should hold a relevant degree or equivalent qualification. Experience in road safety, project development and creating design solutions for appropriate interventions is essential. Successful completion of the RoSPA Road Safety Engineering course would be advantageous.

Further information is provided in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

The team undertakes hybrid working, with the office base being the Council’s main office at Waverley Court, next to Waverley Station. Team members are expected to be in the office and attend site meetings at least 2 days a week.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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