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HIGHWAY SKILLS – ELEVATING THE PRACTICAL Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy theihe.org
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HIGHWAY SKILLS – ELEVATING THE PRACTICAL

Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

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Highway Engineering Academy

Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

The IHE Highway Engineering Academy (HEA) offers industry-led training in highway engineering. Through one of our specialist training courses or by accrediting already gained experience, the Academy will deliver the qualifications, skills and knowledge demanded by the highways industry and in short-supply today. The IHE hopes the Highway Engineering Academy will be a training hub for the next generation of highway professionals, and provide an opportunity for qualified engineers and technicians to undertake training to refine and upgrade their skill set for working within the highways industry. IHE’s Academy is intended to train a dedicated workforce with the specialist skills and expertise the highways industry needs to build the UK’s road network.

The HEA has five key objectives at its heart: 1. To create and signpost opportunities for new entrants in

the sector by giving clear unambiguous advice on relevant training and Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

2. To encourage new entrants into the highway engineering sector particularly from school leavers, graduates, allied trades, complementary professions and groups currently under represented, including women.

3. To support existing highway professionals in career development via training and CPD with direct relevance to professional registration.

4. To commission and create new educational and training courses specifically aimed at highway engineers.

5. To raise the profile of highway engineers and get their career, skills and wider profession recognised in its own right and as one with equal status to complementary and contiguous professions such as civil engineering, transport planning, architecture etc.

The Highway Engineering Academy aims to address the skills gap within the highway engineering sector, and meet its objectives, by offering these activities: • Recognised and academically rigorous qualifications in

highway engineering disciplines through accrediting learning and training.

• Highways industry knowledge, expertise and skills, providing a life long career profile for highways practitioners.

• Monitoring and addressing highways sector skills needs through industry-led training to ensure students are getting the highways engineering skills employers want.

• Apprenticeship opportunities and hands-on experience. • Pathways to Professional Registration by signposting

quality highway professional development opportunities. • Knowledge sharing with respected industry experts,

promoting the highway engineering profession. • Commissioning and promoting PGDip/PDCert in

highway engineering subjects.

• Registers for competent highway engineers.

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What can the HEA offer individuals?

Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

Continuing Professional Development The HEA offers a range of CPD opportunities from one day courses with Certificates of Attendance through to routes to Professional Registration. You choose what, where and when you undertake this and we provide you with the opportunity to register your CPD and use this to further your career.

One day courses We offer a range of one-day courses to help you keep up to date with developments in particular areas. You will receive a Certificate of Attendance with a merit of six hours CPD.

Professional Certificates and Diplomas We offer a range of courses that can be taken at two levels – Certificate and Diploma. This means that you can undertake these courses at a level to suit your own personal circumstances and whatever your academic background.

Courses are held throughout the country and normally require attendance over 4–5 days. On completion of each course you will receive a Certificate of Attendance (meriting 24/30 hours CPD). If you wish to go on to gain the Professional Certificate or Diploma then you will need to complete a number of assessments to demonstrate your competence at one of two levels. Depending on your chosen level you may also need to present your report at interview. Workshops If you wish to apply for Professional Registration we offer workshops to help you prepare your application. These take place over two days and at the end of the second day you will be in a position to submit your application. Further details of all our training courses and professional awards can be found in this brochure and on our website at www.theihe.org

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What can the HEA offer employers?

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In-house training – let the IHE experts come to you! All of our training courses and Professional Certificates and Diplomas can be offered in-house at your company premises or any other convenient location.

Why in-house training? By conducting training in-house, you have the ability to train multiple members of staff, at the same time, in an environment in which they feel comfortable. In-house delivery means you can save time away from the workplace and money spent on travel and accommodation.

Continuing Professional Development The IHE is committed to supporting organisations with the Continuing Professional Development of their staff. Our expert trainers will ensure everyone gets the most out of their training, and we can tailor the content to your specific needs.

A bespoke training package We can offer the full range of our existing Professional Certificates and Diploma courses exclusively for your organisation. Alternatively, if you wish to ‘mix and match’ we can provide you with a bespoke package to suit your particular requirements at times and dates convenient to yourselves. Availability and prices Once you have identified which courses you require or, if you wish to discuss your individual requirements with one of our expert trainers, email or call us. We can then provide you with a quote and make arrangements for the dates you require. For further information contact the events team by emailing [email protected] or telephoning 0203 874 3066.

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Route map to destination

Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

Getting started

NQF/SQF Level AcademicYou can view the route map in diagrammatic form opposite. If, having considered your options you intend to pursue professional registration at EngTech, IEng or CEng through the IHE, guidance notes are available on our website at www.theihe.org/professional-registration

Once you are ready to apply, the application form can be found in the member’s area of the website: members.theihe.org

You are welcome to join the IHE as a member, or an Affiliate, which gives you automatic access to the member’s area. Further details on membership are available from www.theihe.org/membership

8 NQF 10 SQF

7 NQF 9 SQF

6 NQF 8 SQF

5 NQF 7 SQF

4 NQF 6 SQF

3 NQF 5 SQF

2 NQF 4 SQF

1 NQF 3 SQF

Entry level 3

Doctorate PHD

Master’s Degree MA, MSc, MPhil

University Degree BA, BSc

A-Level

GCSE Grades

A–C

GCSE Grades D–G

Key Stage 3

Foundation Degree

A2 L3 Extended Diploma AS (National Diploma)

L2 Diploma (1st Diploma)

L1 Diploma

(Foundation)

E3 Diploma (Foundation)

HND

HNC

L3 Diploma

(National Certificate)

School/6th Form FE College

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Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

Career Path HEA Level IHE Grade

Fellow

CEng

Highway

Engineering

Academy

IEng

EngTech

Higher

Apprenticeship

Advanced Apprenticeship Intermediate

Apprenticeship

Professional Diploma Professional Certificate

Member Associate Student

Engineering Council Professional Registration

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Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

The first step You need to ascertain where your starting point is by identifying the following:

• Existing qualifications • Current job • Previous work experience

Destination Where do you want to go? How will you get there? The following will need to be considered: • Academic – will your existing qualifications take you

directly to your destination? • Vocational – do you have vocational qualifications

and/or experience that can be used? • Experience – have you worked in the industry for some

time but lack formal qualifications?

Gap analysis Identify what is missing from your CV. Some examples are shown below:

• Some academic qualifications but not enough or the right type? • A lot of work experience but lack qualifications? • Senior management position but not professionally registered?

Help is at hand

Career Assessment If you need help, the IHE can offer you an Individual Career Assessment. This is a review of your current CV, knowledge and experience by a specialist in your field of work and guidance and advice on the best way to proceed. If you would like a Career Assessment please email a detailed copy of your CV to [email protected]. Career Surgeries Alternatively, you could attend an IHE Career Surgery. These offer you a chance to have a one-to-one session with an experienced mentor or reviewer who will discuss your knowledge, experience and work history and offer guidance on the best way to proceed. Surgeries are free and can be booked in advance by contacting [email protected] or visiting the IHE stand at certain events. Potential barriers There are many things which can prevent you from reaching your destination and some of them are listed here: • Time • Effort • Cost

• Expertise • Lack of Support • Confidence

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Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

The HEA can help to remove some of these barriers by providing a single point of access, which allows you to use more than one vehicle.

What does the HEA offer? 1. Specialist one day courses Highway Law – Principles and Practice Asphalt for Highways and Other Paved Areas

2. Professional Certificates and Diplomas Active Travel - Planning & Design Asset Management Development Management Highway Maintenance Road Safety Engineering Temporary Traffic Management Traffic Signal Control Traffic Sign Design Winter Services – Decision Makers and Managers

3. Workshops Engineering Technician

Course location All courses listed in this brochure are delivered throughout the year in the clean, contemporary setting of our Birmingham office space and meeting rooms. This centrally located venue in Birmingham Brindleyplace gives excellent connectivity across the UK. Courses are also run at our main London office, regionally and as an in-house option.

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Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

One day courses

The IHE Highway Engineering Academy offers specialist one day courses. These intense courses in specific fields of highway engineering are aimed at both private and public sector employees looking to rapidly upskill, or refresh, their knowledge in highway law and asphalt technology.

These popular courses are held throughout the UK regularly to provide a comprehensive review of the current requirements, law, technologies and practical issues. They are also designed to be interactive, with attendees encouraged to bring along specific problems they have encountered and would like our expert’s advice and opinion on.

Sharing best practice and experience are key to making highway engineering more effective and efficient. These courses are designed to do just that and are delivered by experts in their respective fields who use the benefit of their expertise to encourage learning and engagement from practitioners in the industry. All attendees receive a CPD certificate of attendance for the day.

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Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

Highway Law – Principles and Practice

This course provides an interactive general guide to highway law for Highway Engineers working in all spheres but it will be of particular interest to those in Maintenance, Design, Development Management and Public Rights of Way. Practical examples of different problems arising from the law will be addressed, including those from delegates if prior notification is given. This course will be run on a flexible basis in relation to the particular interests of delegates and questions raised, with opportunities for discussion and a closing Question & Answer session.

Competencies • About Highways – History, legal theory, types (such as

Dedication/Adoption), ownership limits, lawful use drainage, trees, retaining walls

• Liabilities and Controls – Maintenance duties and liabilities, Protection – duties and powers development, inc. agreements Traffic Management, NRSWA

• Network Changes – CPO/SRO process for new/improved highways creation, extinguishment, diversion private streets, APC, accesses

• Public Rights of Way – Definitive map, modification, specific issues

Delivery This course is 1 day in total duration.

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Asphalt for Highways and Other Paved Areas

The course is designed to provide an invaluable understanding of asphalt technology. The confusing range of UK surface course asphalts have characteristics which make them suitable for specific uses. Binder course materials can be equally confusing as can base asphalts but all need to be understood to ensure roads and other pavements are built and maintained in the most cost effective manner.

Proprietary modified asphalts are sometimes used in areas where they are quite unnecessary but how would you know? Equally, how would you know where they are necessary? Roads can have vastly differing traffic and axle loadings, design speeds and sub-soil conditions. Some have been designed to recognised standards others have evolved from Victorian housing streets or even mediaeval lanes.

This short course enables delegates to select the optimum asphalts for pavement layers in both “evolved” and “designed” roads. It also looks at modified bitumens and explains where they are vital for the asphalt’s in-service integrity. Asphalt production methods, production problems affecting the durability of mixtures, their hot-bin storage, not always safeguarding their durability, and their transporting to paving sites are also examined. Both in transit and once on site, it is all too easy to ruin perfectly good asphalt. If there are problems, the course also provides outline guidance on sampling and testing.

Delivery

This course is 1 day in total duration.

Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

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IHE Professional Certificates and Professional Diplomas

Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

• Awarded by IHE appointed independent steering panels, which include representatives from various governing bodies, organisations and companies. They accredit skill and competency as a specialist highways practitioner and can provide evidence of competence to employers. The IHE competency statements are industry-tested and exemplify what practitioners are expected to know and deliver in the work place.

• Supported by structured training courses, which have been

developed to provide specific training. The training courses are aimed at aiding individuals to gain the necessary knowledge and ability to support their application for a Professional Certificate or Professional Diploma.

• Offered in a wide range of specialist highway areas and all

highway practitioners can apply. IHE membership is not required and there is no specific need for academic qualifications or professional grade. Applicants are required to complete assignments and/or a portfolio of evidence, which are compiled into a submission; they may also be required to attend an interview with appointed senior professionals.

• Achieved at two levels: Certificate: Candidates will be able to demonstrate an awareness and knowledge of various core aspects. Diploma: In addition to the above, candidates will need to be able to demonstrate their ability to solve problems and lead.

• Provide a foundation for national qualifications and, subject to demonstrating the appropriate academic qualifications and competency, can also contribute to an application for Engineering Council registration.

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How do I Achieve a Professional Certificate or Professional Diploma?

Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

Course Route A structured training programme will deliver the skills and information required for achievement of an IHE Professional Certificate or Diploma and this can also lay the foundation for Professional Registration.

Firstly, you should decide which level you wish to attain. The IHE offers qualifications at two levels through the course route – Certificate or Diploma. You will then need to attend the dedicated training course. Most courses listed in this brochure are delivered throughout the year in the clean, contemporary setting of our Birmingham office space and meeting rooms. The centrally located venue in Birmingham Brindleyplace gives excellent connectivity across the UK. Courses are also run at our main London office, regionally and as an in-house option. You will receive a Certificate of Attendance with CPD just for attending the course. If you wish to apply for the Professional Certificate or Diploma, you will need to successfully complete all assignments and assessments. All Certificate level courses have an additional day set aside to make an application for EngTech Professional Registration for delegates who have successfully passed their Professional Certificate assignments and assessments to the required standard.

Knowledge Based Route To achieve the Professional Certificate or Professional Diploma at your chosen level you will normally be expected to attend the training course and successfully complete all assignments/ assessments in each core competency module, together with a number of subject specific competencies, depending on which award you are looking to achieve. Professional Certificates or Professional Diplomas can also be achieved by candidates who feel they have sufficient skills, training and experience and can demonstrate this by submitting an Individual Portfolio of Evidence, which documents how they have achieved the competencies required. Full details of competencies, assessment and awards can be found on the IHE Highway Engineering Academy website: www.theihe.org/academy

OR

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Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

Asset Management

Overview Asset Management enables an organisation to examine the need for, and performance of, assets and asset systems at different levels. Additionally, it enables the application of analytical approaches towards managing an asset over the different stages of its life cycle (which can start with the conception of the need for the asset, through to its disposal, and includes the managing of any potential post disposal liabilities).

The Professional Certificate or Professional Diploma provides an opportunity for those with experience in the management of highway assets to expand their knowledge of this increasingly important area and demonstrate their competence.

Competencies

Core • Highway Law, ownership and legal obligations • Governance and strategy • Asset Management principles • Inventory Subject specific • Codes of Practice • Network Prioritisation and Risk Management • Funding and Lifecycle • Inspecting and National Key Performance Indicators • Performance standards • Sustainability and asset preservation • Asset Maintenance regime • New and Emerging Technology

Delivery This course is 4 days in total duration. This is made up of 2 days, separated by an appropriate interval, and a further 2 days.

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Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

Active Travel – Planning & Design

Overview This course provides delegates with the information and skills to develop designs for walking and cycling infrastructure within the UK regulatory framework. It also leads to the Professional Certificate or Diploma in Active Travel. The Department for Transport Cycle Proofing Working Group has listed the IHE Professional Certificate & Diploma in Active Travel as an acknowledged product for engineers planning and designing active travel infrastructure.

Competencies

Core • Active Travel Policy - Understanding, formulation and

implementation • User needs of pedestrian and cycle traffic • Planning Active Travel Networks • Link Designs • Junction and Crossing Designs Subject specific • Greenways, Cycle Tracks and Light Segregation • High Streets and Mixed Priority • Priority Junctions • Signal Controlled Junctions • Roundabouts • Grade Separated Junctions • Engagement, Education and Enforcement • Sharing the Carriageway and Street, Low Traffic

Neighbourhoods • Cycle Parking and Interchange, other Facilities • Signing and Waymarking • Planning and Design within new developments

Delivery This course is 4 days in total duration. This is made up of 2 days, separated by an appropriate interval of around 6 weeks, and a further 2 days.

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Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

Development Management

Overview Development Management is an important part of the planning process and is assuming greater professional and political significance in delivering and managing the sustainable communities’ agenda. It is a function which ensures that any new development has the minimum adverse impact on highway safety, traffic capacity, environmental capacity and convenience to transport users as a whole.

The Professional Certificate or Diploma provides an opportunity for those with experience in this area to expand their knowledge and demonstrate their competence.

Competencies

Core • The Development control process • Issues to be considered in dealing with or submitting a Planning

Application • Responding to consultations and preparing of conditions • Post Planning and construction issues • Planning obligations and legal agreements Subject specific • The planning process • Planning procedure • The appeal process • Public inquiries • Policy • Highway design, construction and management issues • Network capacity • Transport assessments • Masterplanning • Sustainability • Travel plans • S106, 278, 38 legal agreements

Delivery This course is 4 days in total duration. This is made up of 2 days, separated by an appropriate interval of around 14 weeks, and a further 2 days.

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Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

Highway Maintenance

Overview Highway maintenance has seen a sharp rise in public awareness over recent years and the effects of austerity, maintenance backlogs and extreme weather have all contributed to the rising profile of the highway maintenance sector. Never has the requirement and expectation of efficient highway maintenance engineering been higher on the agenda of the travelling public.

This Professional Certificate or Diploma offers the opportunity for those with appropriate maintenance engineering experience to expand upon their knowledge and demonstrate their competence in this increasingly important area.

Competencies

Core • Highway Maintenance specifications and Codes of Practice • Asset Management systems and principles • Health and Safety legislation and responsibilities including

Temporary Traffic Management Subject specific • Highway Law, legal duties and powers relating to Highway

Maintenance • Structural maintenance materials, techniques and considerations • Highway Inspections • Reactive and planned maintenance techniques • Bituminous materials use and considerations • Surface Dressing, thin surfacing and slurry seal design

and application • Failure identification and remedial treatments • Maintenance contract management, quantity surveying

and administration • Drainage, flood risk and environmental & landscape maintenance • Sustainable and innovative highway maintenance techniques • Soil and materials sampling, performance and testing practice

Delivery This course is 4 days in total duration. This is made up of 2 days, separated by an appropriate interval, and a further 2 days.

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Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

Temporary Traffic Management

Overview IHE’s Professional Certificate or Diploma in Temporary Traffic Management Engineering, including design, enables those working within the highway industry to demonstrate their knowledge and competence in this field.

It covers all aspects of temporary traffic management engineering, temporary signing, and other related highway engineering topics for high speed and rural and urban roads. The certificate is designed to accommodate the needs of those who have extensive practical experience gained from working within the industry but may not have considered the possibility or potential of a non-vocational course beyond NVQ level 3. For employers, this Professional Certificate is nationally recognised by the published industry guidance as a means of providing evidence of having competent design and engineering personnel and provides a method for the company to demonstrate to a client, compliance with the requirements of relevant published standards. It provides an industry benchmark and the Certificate has received endorsement from Highways England.

Competencies • Highway legislation • Highway engineering fundamentals • Traffic data collection & analysis • Temporary traffic systems • Temporary vehicle restraint systems • Road markings • Supporting technology • Temporary sign face design principles

Delivery The Certificate course is 4 days in total duration. This is made up of 2 days, separated by an appropriate interval, and a further 2 days. The Diploma course requires successful completion of the Certificate course, plus a further 5 days at Diploma level.

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Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

Road Safety Engineering

Overview The role of the Road Safety Engineer could be considered a complex role which covers a multitude of disciplines within the field of traffic and transportation. Despite the niche role a Road Safety Engineer holds, there has been a lack of any specific formal qualification which the practitioner can undertake to demonstrate their experience and knowledge. The IHE recognises this shortfall and this course offers the opportunity for the Road Safety Engineer to expand their knowledge and demonstrate their competency in all aspects of road safety engineering.

Competencies

Core • Road Safety Engineering Principles • Health and Safety / CDM • Collision data, analysis and scheme identification • Highway design / traffic engineering Subject specific • Monitoring / post opening performance evaluation • Road safety audit • Road safety policy / targets / requirements and advice / best

practice guidance documents • Economics / funding • Legal issues in road safety • Risk assessment • Education/information / training / publicity • Safety inspections

Delivery This course is 4 days in total duration. This is made up of 2 days, separated by an appropriate interval, and a further 2 days.

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Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

Traffic Signal Control

Overview The traditional realm of the traffic signal junction, which was previously largely limited to junctions in urban areas, has been extended into rural locations, where higher approach speeds exist and roundabouts, where congestion and accidents have increased as traffic volumes have exceeded the roundabout’s design capacity. The primary objective in providing traffic signal control at a junction is to reduce the conflict between opposing traffic streams, as these conflicts can result in traffic delay and accidents. Traffic signals seek to reduce such conflicts by separating movements in time and position on the road in a way that optimises junction performance and safely.

This Professional Certificate or Professional Diploma enables traffic signal engineers to demonstrate their knowledge and competence in the conception, design, installation, operation and maintenance of traffic signal junctions and pedestrian crossings.

Competencies

Core • CDM regulations • Governance and strategy • Traffic Signal Control principles • Design standards Subject specific • Codes of Practice • Statutory duties • Project management • Traffic impact assessment • Control techniques • Commissioning • Maintenance and inspection • Funding and lifecycle • New and Emerging Technology

Delivery This course is 4 days in total duration. This is made up of 2 days, separated by an appropriate interval, and a further 2 days.

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Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

Traffic Signing and Road Marking

Overview This Professional Certificate or Professional Diploma provides an opportunity for those with experience in the preparation, design or implementation of traffic signing to demonstrate their competence and expand upon their knowledge. Certificate level candidates provide support on the design of traffic signing systems and production of proposals for implementation. Practitioners may lead the preparation, design or implementation of traffic signing whilst experts will have a comprehensive knowledge of all aspects of traffic signing system design together with the ability to advise on detailed requirements. The Certificate is endorsed by both the Department for Transport and Highways England and accredits a practitioner’s competence in this specialist field.

Competencies

Core • Statutory requirements, policy and general guidance • Present and discuss traffic signing proposals • Use and design of Traffic Signs Subject specific • Road markings and road studs • Temporary Traffic Management Signs • Sign design software • Sign Manufacturing and Specification • Site installation and contracts

Delivery This course is 4 days in total duration. This is made up of 2 days, separated by an appropriate interval, and a further 2 days.

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Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

Winter Services – Decision Makers and Managers

Overview Winter Services is assuming greater professional and political significance in ensuring highway networks are available and safe for use at all times. This Professional Certificate or Professional Diploma provides the skills and information required to become a Winter Services professional with the training being designed for staff responsible for policy and decision making, primarily in highway authorities and contractors. It provides an industry benchmark and the Certificate has received endorsement from the Department of Transport.

Competencies

Core • The law, code and policy • Record Keeping • Winter service delivery • Severe weather and snow response • Winter communications • Winter road meteorology • Ice prediction systems and monitoring • Decision making

Delivery This course is 5 days in total duration. This is made up of 2 days, separated by an appropriate interval, and a further 3 days.

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Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

Engineering Technician Workshop

These specially tailored workshops comprise two parts and offer one to one mentoring by our experienced team of senior reviewers. Each workshop will guide you through our simplified application process so that by the conclusion of workshop 2 you will have not only completed your application in full but also submitted your paperwork for review.

Competencies

Day 1 • Academic standards with specific advice given

to each delegate • The competency framework as set by The Engineering Council • CPD and other requirements such as H&S and sustainability • Presentation of evidence • Completion of Assessment Question 1 and documenting

evidence of competence • Completion of Assessment Question 2 and documenting

evidence of competence • Individual mentoring of delegates Day 2 • Review of work to date and Individual mentoring of delegates • Completion of Assessment Question 3 and documenting

evidence of competence • Final review of completed paperwork on an individual basis

Delivery This course is 2 days in total duration. This is made up of 1 day, separated by an appropriate interval, and a further 1 day. Delegates will need to assemble supporting evidence for competency modules prior to attendance at workshop 2.

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IHE Overview – The Institute of choice for highway engineers

Professional Development with the IHE Highway Engineering Academy

About the IHE The Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE) is the UK’s only national professional Institute which puts specialist highway and traffic practitioners first. Our expertise extends to highway maintenance, traffic and transportation, road safety, highway design, traffic signal control, bridge maintenance, construction, development management and the public realm. We have been registering engineers and technicians under licence with the Engineering Council since 1972 and accrediting academic courses since 1989.

What we offer We offer Professional Registration to our members in the five main national and internationally recognised status of engineering professional registration:

Engineering Technician Engineering Technicians (EngTech) apply proven techniques and procedures to the solution of practical engineering problems. They are technically competent and are often skilled practitioners working under the guidance of others but can sometimes be managing small teams. EngTech is the most appropriate grade of Professional Registration for practitioners working on the highway on work such as: highway maintenance, Temporary Traffic Management and highway reinstatement including road markings and linings. It is also suitable for highway practitioners working in office based roles such as: CAD technicians, application and administration of Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders (TTRO’s) and contract administration. Incorporated Engineer Incorporated Engineers (IEng) maintain and manage applications of current and developing technology, and may undertake engineering design, development, manufacture construction and operation. They know ‘why’ as well as ‘how’ as well as holding a responsible position that requires them to exercise independent judgement, leading and managing teams.

Chartered Engineer Chartered Engineers (CEng) develop solutions to engineering problems using new or existing technologies, through innovation, creativity and change and/or they may have technical accountability for complex systems with significant levels of risk. They lead or implement innovative or complex schemes taking the strategic view at all times. Engineers and technicians need to undergo a Professional Review in order to achieve all of the above titles. In addition, they need to be a member of a licenced Professional Engineering Institute (such as the IHE) and supply a copy of their Continuing Professional Development to their Institute at periodic intervals for assessment by a Professionally Registered assessor. We also offer Professional Registration routes to ICT Technician or Chartered IT Professional. More information on these routes can be found on our website. www.theihe.org/professional-registration

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