Technical Officer - Dorchester, United Kingdom - Dorset Councils

Dorset Councils

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Dorchester, United Kingdom

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Description

Organisation

Dorset Council
Location
Dorchester, United Kingdom
Reference

Occupational group
Highways
Salary details

- £24,496 - £28,37

Job term
Full Time
Appointment type
Permanent
Contact
Alison Curtis
Contact

telephone

Closing Date
11 April :00 AM

Technical Officer

37 hours

Salary £24,496 - £28,371
County Hall, Dorchester

What's in it for you:

Maintaining a great county for people to live, work and visit, depends on the infrastructure and environments that we improve and create.

Join us and you could play a major role in regenerating and developing key parts of this beautiful rural setting, home of the famous Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.

This post presents an excellent opportunity to develop and expand your existing knowledge, skills and experience within a bust and varied highway engineering environment.

You will be joining the Development Team within Highways, a successful, supportive, and collaborative team with a wealth of experience.

The Highways Service is forward thinking, continuously thinking innovatively about how we offer our services as well as identifying opportunities to work collaboratively with colleagues and partners.

We prioritise support, learning, development, and wellbeing across our workforce. We also offer hybrid and flexible working that supports a healthy work-life balance.

We are committed to supporting your continual professional development and have a comprehensive development programme whatever the stage of your career.

What you can expect to be doing:
This diverse and exciting role includes providing specialist technical advice, coordinating activity with third parties to deliver a range of projects and/or services including:
implementing the Council's Advanced Payments Code,
technical reviews and inspections,
developing innovative, practical transport initiatives to deliver transport infrastructure to support sustainable economic development, housing growth, new local and neighbourhood plans,

you will also play a key part in working with a range of partners and organisations to support sustainable travel and create safe, healthy and people friendly places.

About you:

Experience of working within a highway related discipline, with an excellent ability to follow procedures and evaluate problems. You will be able to work in a team environment, with good communication skills and customer service.

Membership of a relevant professional body is desirable and will demonstrate your commitment to continuous professional development and that you have gained significant post qualification experience within this field.

This position has a travel requirement.

This means that there is a requirement to have access to a vehicle or have suitable access to other forms of transport such as public transport (where appropriate), car sharing or use of pool cars.

The ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.

Dorset Council:
A great place to work
We're passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.

At Dorset Council we:
- provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
- have ambitious aspirations
- are excited about our future
- care about Dorset and all the people who live here
- know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success

You will:
- have access to a range of employee benefits
- be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
- have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.

We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours. We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

This role is UK based and we will need to establish your Right to Work as part of the appointment process.

We use generic job descriptions and person specifications. This means the job title on any attachments may differ from the job title in the advert. We may provide specific information in a context statement if relevant.