Principal Engineer

Pendle is a borough with plenty going on.  It’s a place of vibrant and diverse communities, home to a flourishing businesses, and with ambitious regeneration projects that are reimagining some of our town centres.  It’s an ideal place for your talent to flourish.

Working at the heart of our efforts to develop the borough you will design and supervise a range of diverse and complex civil engineering projects.  This will involve the production of working drawings and contract documents for highways, traffic management, drainage and other engineering schemes.  You will also supervise and monitor the construction work associated with the implementation of those schemes, ensuring completion within agreed timescales and budgets.

You’ll very quickly see the professional breadth and scope that this role brings.  Don’t let this opportunity pass you by.

The Borough of Pendle lies in Lancashire’s beautiful Pennines and is within easy reach of the Yorkshire Dales, the Lake District, and the city of Manchester.

Pendle Borough Council offers an excellent work-life balance including flexitime with no core hours, up to 2 days flexi leave a month, compressed working options and up to 31 days annual leave.

This role is likely to be on a Flexible Contract as defined by our Agile Working Policy.  The minimum frequency for in-office attendance will be two or three times per week, however it could be more frequent based on the demands of the service.  We therefore expect candidates to reside within a commutable distance from Number One Market Street in Nelson, Lancashire.    

The Council’s benefits package includes an excellent Local Government Pension Scheme, generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional annual leave, a cycle to work scheme, home tech and car scheme salary sacrifice schemes.  You will also be rewarded with access to our benefits programme, Viv up, which provides easy access to unbeatable discounts for retailers such as Argos, M&S, B&Q, Currys PC World, etc.

We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.  Pendle Borough Council does not discriminate on any basis of disability, sex, marriage or civil partnership, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, or maternity.