Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Mountsorrel Depot, Hawcliffe Road, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire LE12 7AH
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: £27,717 - £33,294 per annum (pro-rata for part-time) Market Premia [10% of top of grade] may be available, dependent upon qualifications
Working Hours: Full Time, 37 Hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Sunday 27th July 2025
Interview Date(s): TBC - Interviews will be in-person
About the Role
An opportunity has arisen for a career-graded Street Lighting Electrician to join our Operational Highways team at Leicestershire County Council, working as part of the team providing professional electrical support to service activities, undertake works on large scale installation programmes, support various projects including developer works, and other electrical schemes as instructed relating to street lighting, traffic signs and signals, and any other electrical signs and/or lighting as directed to meet programme and time targets.
Activities included in this role are: Electrical installations, Site Supervision, Estimated costing of repairs, Testing, Fault diagnosis and repair.
As part of the career grading, you will undertake various maintenance works to increase your expertise in a range of street lighting and electrical disciplines and gain experience in technical practices, safe working procedures, and the use of equipment and power tools.
The nature of the work may involve you carrying out work outside of normal working hours and at different locations than your designated base.
This role is a “Safety Critical Post” and, consequently, subject to random drug and alcohol testing in accordance with our policies and procedures. A copy of our Substance Misuse Policy and Procedure is available upon request.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- Have New Roads and Streetworks Act (NRSWA) Qualification (Operatives), City & Guilds Parts 1&2 Electrical Installation, BS 7671, 16th Edition IEE Wiring Regs or above, AM1 Practical Exam (Minimum) , HEA/HERS registered, Mobile Elevated Work Platforms licence, Electricity at Work Act.
OR demonstratable evidence of skills and experience with a commitment to attaining the essential qualifications. - Experience in problem identification and solving, use of information technology (eg personal computer, PDS, mobile phones, etc) in a work-related context and the ability to take measurements and calculate quantities, e.g. areas, volumes and weights.
- Have knowledge of Construction Health, Safety and Environmental requirements and safe working procedures and legislation including driver’s hours, PPE and manual handling.
- Are able and willing to work with everyone in the team and to use your own initiative in planning and prioritising.
- Ability to respond confidently to customers and colleagues with understanding and diplomacy while maintaining an objective and professional stance.
- Can constructively challenge poor performance and/or behaviour and have the ability to remain calm & positive in challenging circumstances.
- Are well organised and are able to prioritise your own workload and provide evidence of self-motivation using your own initiative.
You must also have an understanding of and commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, 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.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees in balancing their working lives with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances while 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 that determines where it can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories on the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Duncan Mansfield, Supervisor – Street Lighting
Tel: 07935 342470
Email: [email protected]
How to Apply
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 explaining 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 applying 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: https://emss.org.uk/support.
By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.
About Leicestershire County Council
Leicestershire County Council is a Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.
Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.
For further information on what it’s like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:
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