Senior Highways Development Technician - 1826

You'll help make a difference as a Development Management Senior Technician in Gloucestershire County Council's Highways Development Management team, ensuring Gloucestershire remains a desirable location where people want to live, work, and visit. We need you to provide support to the Highway Adoptions team by undertaking technical audits of Developer-led infrastructure, liaising with stakeholders, maintaining databases and administration systems, and actively contributing to the ongoing improvement of the team.

This is an exciting time for talented, self-driven professionals to join a team and County Council going from strength-to-strength, affording you the opportunities to make genuinely positive contributions to both your team and the local area, with opportunities to grow personally and professionally.

To find out more about the Highways Development Management team, and what we do, please visit the Manual for Gloucestershire Streets webpages at Manual for Gloucestershire streets - Highways

To be successful in this role, you will need to demonstrate strong technical and engineering acumen, a commitment to sustainability, the ability to work under your own initiative, and have excellent organisational skills. You will bring your problem-solving skills and customer-focused nature to a talented team delivering a crucial service. We want you to be proactive and committed to your professional development within civil engineering and, more specifically, highways development management., It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

We are committed to investing in your development and operate flexible times and ways of working, so you may be working with the team in Shire Hall, out meeting partners anywhere within the region, working on your laptop in one of our staff cafes in the heart of the City Centre or local offices or working from home.

As you'd expect, we offer an attractive package of benefits which makes a career in Local Government both flexible and rewarding.

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• Flexible and agile working opportunities


• 24.5 days annual leave rising to 29.5 days after 5 years continuous service


• An option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)


• Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family


• Career development and qualification opportunities


• Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision


• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)


• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.


• An in-house Occupational Health service


• Employee discount scheme


• Cycle to Work scheme


• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&Cs apply)


• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network