Principal Officer - Licensing & Street Works chez Leicestershire County Council
Leicestershire County Council · Nottingham, Royaume-Uni · Hybrid
- Senior
- Bureau à Nottingham
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: 37 hours per week x 1 Post available
Worker Type: Off site Worker
Salary: Starting Salary is £40,777 (Level one) rising to £44,075 (Level four) per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Location: Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3GN
We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…
Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.
In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.
* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.
About the Role
The Traffic & Flood Risk Management Service area seeks to deliver an excellent customer focused service in an efficient, effective, and economic manner, with specific focus of the Council’s role as the Highway Authority whilst adhering to Corporate, Departmental and Government priorities.
The Principal Officer’s primary purpose is to support the Technical Lead and Service Manager in the leadership and management of a multi discipline team to effectively manage, develop and deliver the Network Management duties of the City Council. The role is required to promote, and co-ordinate works on the Nottingham City highway network. Working with statutory undertakers and developers to ensure high quality, low impact working practices. Building professional working relationships with all works promoters and developers and supporting the Service Manager with corporate decisions and programmes.
We are looking for a proactive and efficient individual, who can put citizens and customers first and work with a range of internal and external stakeholders. They must also be organised and have excellent communication skills to ensure that the outputs of the service area are maintained to professional standards.
About You
The ideal candidate will have:
- Skills to implement the duties as required by the Traffic Management Act 2004, Highways Act 1980 and New Roads & Street Works Act 1991 as they apply to the Highway Authority.
- Can provide a comprehensive network management service for managing, coordinating and controlling activities on the highway to support the delivery of approved transport programmes, other programmes of highway works and meeting the needs of local communities.
- Has a wide knowledge and working experience of current practice and legislation relating to network management duties.
- A can-do attitude and willingness to learn
- Be able to deliver and maintain the Network Management duties in line with the national strategy and local priorities.
- NRSWA Street-works Supervisors Qualification
- This post is covered by the statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) (English Language Requirement for public sector workers) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English, is an essential requirement for the role.
You can find the job description for this post here
At Nottingham City Council, we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.
For informal enquiries, please contact Scott Harrison, Service Manager, Highways Network Management, by telephone on 0115 8765245 or by email at [email protected]
Closing Date: 8th December 2025
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: At Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham at a date to be confirmed.
If you have any technical issues when completing your application, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.org.uk/support
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Company
Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.
In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:
- 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years’ service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
- Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
- Smart Working – to support your work life balance
- Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!
Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.
We particularly want to hear from you if you are from Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ community (LGBTQ+) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we’d like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.
We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.
