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 Principal Engineer will play a lead role in providing support, advice and guidance to senior management, as well as supporting more junior members of staff. This role will also lead on the development, review and design, consultation, and delivery of parking related schemes including controlled parking zones and disabled parking provision.  In addition, the role involves responsibility for the delivery of electric vehicle charging points, cycle hangars and dockless cycle parking.   This role will include responsibility of procurement and contract management for works related to the team.

The Parking Policy and Projects team includes 4 permanent vacancies that will work on a range of projects and schemes including controlled parking zones, disabled parking provision and a number of measures to promote use to cycling such as cycle hangars and dockless cycle parking and provision of electric vehicle charging points to help meet growing demand.

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.

If you would like to discuss any of the roles, please email Simi Shah, Group Manager - Traffic and Parking Projects at (url removed) 

About you

You will have a detailed technical knowledge of engineering, including analytical methods, technical standards and methodologies, design principles and techniques as well as a record of successful and consistent delivery of highways or transport projects across at least 2 engineering areas.  You will also have a qualification in Engineering/Transportation to degree level or equivalent with at least three years successful post qualification experience in a practising senior position or 5 years relevant experience.