Principal Officer Traffic Management

Nottingham City Council, Leicestershire County Council, East Midlands Group

Job Location:

Nottingham - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 37 x 1 post available

Worker Type: Hybrid & Office Worker

Salary: Starting Salary is 40777 (Level one) rising to 44075 ( level four)

Location:Loxley House Station Street Nottingham NG2 3NG

Weve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity youve 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 Councils role as the Highway Authority whilst adhering to Corporate Departmental and Government priorities.

Were looking for a proactive skilled Principal Officer to help support a multidisciplinary team delivering highquality traffic management services across the city. Youll coordinate Traffic Regulation Orders develop deliver and maintain progress of highway projects investigate and resolve traffic issues and the consolidation of Traffic Orders. If you can balance technical expertise legislation awareness stakeholder engagement and innovative problemsolving to keep our network safe efficient and futurereadywe want to hear from you.

Candidates will need to outline in their application how they meet the Person Specification and the 6 bullet points below

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

To support the Technical Leads/Service Manager at public forums Committees and other meetings to discuss traffic management highway development control workplace parking levy or other related highway issues
Investigate complex traffic management workplace parking and environmental problems raised by Members the public and other sources including assessing alternative solutions implementing Traffic Regulation Orders as necessary preparing engineering designs accurate work programmes and estimates for projects monitoring their progress and arranging implementation on site in accordance with financial legal and other requirements.
To provide tracking information and be responsible for the management of projects within the teams work programme including budgets ensuring that financial legal and other requirements.
To use developed Traffic Management skills and a detailed knowledge of highway disciplines to deliver the Councils Transportation priorities including considering and anticipating the impact of new government legislation/policies on the delivery of the service taking immediate action where necessary to prepare for the future.
To set and maintain performance measures and structures for the purpose of tracking performance tackling issues that arise. To coach and mentor others to address development needs agreeing development goals with Management where necessary.
To take responsibility for financial management processes in particular the management of substantial budget profiles / information associated with capital work programmes and the control and monitoring of expenditure.

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 informationfor applicants page.

For informal enquiriesplease contact Sue Thorpe Service Manager Traffic Management & Moving Traffic Enforcement by email at

Closing Date: April 16th 2026

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:TBA

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Required Experience:

Staff IC

DescriptionContract Type: PermanentWorking Hours: 37 x 1 post availableWorker Type: Hybrid & Office WorkerSalary: Starting Salary is 40777 (Level one) rising to 44075 ( level four)Location:Loxley House Station Street Nottingham NG2 3NGWeve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individua...