Department for Transport: Technical Advisor

Birmingham, Leeds

A minimum of 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.

This role will require travel to other DfT locations and site visits within the UK on a sporadic basis.

Job summary

We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

Are you a qualified engineer with strong communication skills, looking to make a significant impact in the public sector?

Do you want to be part of shaping the UK's most high-profile transport projects, and advancing the new government's ambitious infrastructure agenda?

If so, then this is the perfect role for you!

DfT's Infrastructure Efficiency and Engineering (IEE) team is an established Departmental centre of technical expertise operating within the central Portfolio & Project Delivery Directorate (PPDD). Led by the Chief Engineer, the team is formed of highly skilled engineers and project managers to support efficient and effective delivery of DfT's projects and programmes across all transport modes.

As a Technical Advisor you willinfluence the Department's ambitious portfolio of transport projects,working as an integral part of the Directorate and with wider project teams to ensure that major projects are delivered efficiently and effectively.

The role provides a challenging and rewarding opportunity to hone and apply your technical skills to influence some of Europe's largest transport infrastructure schemes; presenting a once-in-generation opportunity to unlock transformational economic benefits for the country.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Using your engineering expertise to provide technical advice across DfT's major projects portfolio, this may include undertaking analysis (such as cost benchmarking) and presenting findings to senior stakeholders.
• Examining technical ALB evidence for advice to Government and the drafting of briefings and papers to Ministers, Boards (including the DfT Investment, Portfolio and Delivery Committee) and senior leaders.
• Lead on promoting the Engineering profession across the Department on behalf of the Chief Engineer, by working with colleagues in the Chief Scientific Adviser's office and the Government Office for Science e.g. management of 'EngineeringLIVE webinar events'.
• Lead on cross-Directorate collaboration by managing IEE's presence on the Project Delivery intranet Portal, as well as embedding process improvement initiatives by working with colleagues across PPDD.
• Supporting the team's wider administrative needs as required, such as the arrangement of site visits, and management of 'Plans on a Page'.

For more information, please see the attached Role Profile.

Person specification

To thrive in this role, you will

• Be a qualified engineer, with an appreciation of innovative and technically complex infrastructure projects.
• Possess experience of generating evidence-based reports and presentations and communicating their findings to technical and non-technical audiences at a senior level.
• Have experience of producing high quality written work and strong verbal communication skills, which communicate technical concepts clearly and concisely to a range of audiences.
• Be able to apply engineering within a policy context and demonstrating your commitment to promoting the engineering profession.

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.

To learn more and apply, please see here .