Highways Adoptions and Agreements Technician - Kettering, United Kingdom - North Northamptonshire Council

North Northamptonshire Council
North Northamptonshire Council
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Kettering, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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About the role
North Northamptonshire is growing and evolving rapidly as a Council and as a Community. It is an exciting time to be joining us.

With Growth comes development, from house extensions to urban extensions; warehouses to wind farms; one person's dream, is another's nightmare.

Development is challenging, are you up for that challenge? The Development Liaison Team brings together the Council's highway advice, highway adoption and highway agreement services supported by our partners in Kier Highways, this small but dedicated team needs you to meet the challenges ahead

What will you be doing?
We have a new opportunity for you as a
Highway Adoption and Agreement Technician.

You will provide technical support considering and processing requests from developers to have their roads adopted by the Council, working with them to enable them to work on the highway to implement highway improvements necessary to facilitate their developments and liaise with the Councils other services and partners to protect the interests of our communities and emerging communities.

You will help our residents, house buyers, elected Members, MPs and developers with enquiries regarding our highway agreement and adoption services.

About you

You will have a high standard of education preferably at Degree level with a keenness to learn new skills, technical and legal processes and systems that underpin modern development engineering.


We look forward to meeting you as you help us shape our new and emerging communities whilst protecting our existing vibrant and beautiful historic towns and villages.

About us

We are a new unitary council, established in April 2021; we are one of the largest unitary councils in the country.

Our vision for North Northants is to be 'A place where everyone has the best opportunities and quality of life'.


Our priorities are:
- helping people live active fulfilled lives
- caring for our young people, providing them with high quality education and opportunities
- enabling a thriving and successful economy
- leading on a green and sustainable environment
- ensuring our communities are connected so they can shape their lives and where they live
- providing modern public services

Our values, as chosen by our staff, are - Customer-focused, Respectful, Efficient, Supportive and Trustworthy.


Your differences make us different - Achieve Together.

  • We are undertaking consultation with the Trade Unions on terms and conditions and the future NNC pay structure and during this time are appointing new employees on interim spot salaries. You will be advised of the outcome and any impact on your role once this work is complete._
Our benefits


We offer:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (27 days, rising to 32 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- agile and flexible working arrangements to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
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