Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £26,427 - £28,776 per annum
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 1st December 2024
Interview Date(s): Week Commencing 9th December
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Technician within the Traffic & Safety Team at Leicestershire County Council, one of the best performing councils in the country.
The successful applicant will join a motivated, friendly team of professionals committed to providing high quality traffic management and road safety initiatives throughout Leicestershire.
As a Technician you will enjoy a competitive salary, as well as a generous benefits package, including pension, flexible working, and annual leave. You will also have access to training and development opportunities, as well as support and guidance from your colleagues and managers.
Leicestershire County Council is committed to smarter working and understands the benefits of supporting employees to manage their work and life balance, whilst meeting the needs of the service.
Our diverse team operates a hybrid working approach partially working from our offices in County Hall, Glenfield and partially working from home. The successful applicant will be expected to undertake site visits and attend in person meetings, when required.
About the Role
As part of this role you will assist in the design and delivery of strategic traffic management and safety related schemes across Leicestershire. This will include the implementation of Traffic Regulation Orders.
You will have experience of liaising with customers using a variety of methods, whilst being able to of investigate, assess, and solve problems whilst communicating outcomes effectively.
A key element will include interpreting and writing technical and non-technical reports whilst providing technical advice to a variety of audiences.
You will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with diverse priorities. You will have excellent communication and negotiation skills, and the ability to build relationships with stakeholders. In return you will get a chance to manage and support exciting and innovative projects that will provide the blueprint for road safety across Leicestershire
About You
To apply for this post, you must have:
* Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise work
* Good verbal and written communication skills
* Problem investigation and assessment skills
* Good IT skills, including the ability to learn the use of specific highways software such as Confirm.
* IT in a design office/ business environment including Microsoft Office or equivalent software.
* Engagement with customers, including attending and producing materials for meetings and exhibitions
* Experience of accurately capturing, storing and retrieving information to meet customer and organisational and needs
We also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Ashley Hughes
Senior Engineer – Traffic & Safety
Telephone – 0116 305 0660
Email – Ashley.Hughes@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Please apply sending us your CV as well as a supporting statement detailing how you meet the requirements of the post. The supporting statement should be no longer than 500 words. Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal:
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