Job Description

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture. 

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

The Streetspace Principal Engineer, will take the lead in developing, reviewing, designing, consulting, and delivering a range of schemes to promote walking, cycling and bus priority and reduce congestion and improve road safety. The schemes will include School Streets, strategic cycle routes, traffic signal works, bus lanes and measures to reduce traffic congestion and improve road safety.

The Streetspace team includes 3 permanent and 3 fixed term contract (FTC) vacancies that will work on a range of schemes to promote walking, cycling and bus priority and reduce congestion and improve road safety.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are 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 of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. 

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

About you

You will have a working knowledge and understanding of highways, traffic and transport related legislation, statutory duties and practice, an understanding of the current planning, sustainability and economic agendas which are influencing highway and transport policy, schemes and implementation and a record of successful and consistent delivery of traffic and parking schemes. You will also have a relevant professional qualification or suitable experience including at least 5 years relevant experience