Senior Development Management Engineer

Overview

In this role you will provide specialist highway and transportation advice for planning applications and development schemes within Warwickshire’s highways team. You will manage a varied caseload, liaise with planning authorities and developers, and support local plan allocations and public inquiries. The position offers exposure to major regeneration projects and cross-functional collaboration with planning, highways, and environment professionals. You will work in a hybrid setup across office, site, and remote locations, contributing to impactful development delivery.

Pay / Benefits

• agile working arrangements
• office/site/remote hybrid working
• opportunity to contribute to regeneration projects

Responsibilities

• Manage a varied caseload of major, medium and small-scale development proposals
• Provide statutory highway advice to Local Planning Authorities
• Review planning applications, highway layouts, and transport submissions
• Provide pre-application advice to developers and agents
• Lead on technical approvals and inspections for new roads related to developments
• Advise on local plan allocations and support public inquiries as needed
• Collaborate with planning teams, developers, agents, internal colleagues, Members, MPs and the public
• Attend site visits, team meetings, planning committees, including occasional out-of-hours meetings

Key requirements

• Significant experience in development management, development control or highway development management
• Strong knowledge of transportation, transport planning and highway matters related to new developments
• Understanding of planning processes, highway consultations and technical approvals
• Ability to manage a large and varied workload with competing deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Confidence liaising with Local Planning Authorities, developers, agents and a range of stakeholders
• Ability to travel across Warwickshire for site visits and meetings as required
• Availability to work 37 hours per week, including occasional planning committee attendance outside normal hours

• communication (excellent written and verbal)
• stakeholder management
• time management
• transportation planning
• highway matters relating to new developments
• planning processes and technical approvals

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