Senior TechnicianScheduler (Internal Only)
Senior TechnicianScheduler (Internal Only)
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PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Croft Depot Arbor Road Croft Leicestershire LE9 3GE
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: 32070 - 34359 per annum
Working Hours:37 hours per week full time
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Thursday 2nd October 2025
Interview Date(s): TBC NB Interviews will be in-person.
About the Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Technician/Scheduler to join our Highway Control team at Leicestershire County Council.
The Senior Technician/ Scheduler role is mainly focused on supporting the delivery of the Councils External Patching Programme. The main duties of this role will involve:
Liaising with colleagues in the patching team network management team external contractors and neighbouring highway authorities
Updating and ensuring the external patching programme is up to date with relevant up to date information
Ensuring essential information required for works is obtained
Applying for permits
Mentoring and supporting technician staff within the control room
Supporting other control room functions including covering where required for the technician role and being involved in handling severe weather events
The nature of the work may involve you carrying out work outside of normal working hours and at different locations than your designated base.
About You
To apply for this post you must have:
- NVQ3 or equivalent i.e. BTEC in Civil Engineering or A-Levels A-C in relevant subjects OR have extensive demonstrable experience as identified below together with a commitment to attain the essential qualifications AND evidence of continued learning and development.
- Experience of accurately capturing storing and retrieving information to meet customer and organisational needs.
- Experience of engagement with customers including attending and producing materials for meetings and exhibitions and of responding effectively to customer and service centre enquiries.
- Knowledge of current legislation policies and procedures; Highways Act NRSWA Traffic Management Act Traffic Regulation Act CDM etc.
- Good verbal and written communication skills organisational skills and the ability to prioritise work. Also good IT skills including the ability to learn the use of service specific systems and software.
- The skills to build positive relationships across stakeholders peers and partners creating open and transparent relationships based on trust. You have analytical and creative thinking skills and you can work to tight timescales and to agreed targets.
You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.
In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand 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 to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst 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 which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:
Lucy Angrave Reactive Maintenance Manager
Telephone: 0
Email:
OR
Lucy Wright Reactive Maintenance Manager
Telephone: 0
Email:
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 as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Applysection 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 trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning0(select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: applying for this post you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Intern
