Street Lighting Electrician [career graded]

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: Mountsorrel Depot Hawcliffe Road Mountsorrel Leicestershire LE12 7AH

Worker Category: Field Based Worker

Salary: 28605 - 34359 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: Wednesday 17th December 2025

Interview Date(s): w/c 19th January 2026 - 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 drivers 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 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 in balancing their working lives with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals 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 Stylespage on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:

Duncan Mansfield Supervisor Street Lighting

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John Benson Highways Works Manager

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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 LGBTQPlus; 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 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.

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