Streetworks Technician

• Based at County Hall, Taunton with Flexible/remote working options.
• Full Time, 37 Hours per week.
• Permanent Contract
• 25 Days annual leave - plus Bank holidays

You will be joining a friendly team which helps to keep Somerset Moving.  As a Street Works Technician, you will be working to improve the day-to day lives of our residents and everyone work works in or visits our county – and you’ll be a key part of that.

Your day-to-day will involve:

• Providing technical advice on streetworks and support to a wide range of people, including the public, elected members, parish councils, statutory agencies and developers.
• Accessing Streetworks permits and coordinating these requests.
• Conducting site visits and meetings when required.
• Using databases and other ICT applications, including bespoke software.

Experience in Street Works is not necessary, rather a keenness to learn and develop your knowledge and experience is more important. We offer full training and the opportunity to become Street Works qualified. However, it will really help if you:

• Are customer -focused and confident in dealing with people
• Are ready to deliver and willing to learn new skills.
• Have strong ICT and written skills.

We’re proud to be here for the people of Somerset. And that means everyone in Somerset. An important part of this is ensuring that we are as diverse and inclusive as the people and communities we serve.

We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact the hiring manager for a chat if there’s anything you want to talk about before you apply.

We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

• We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
• Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Staff discounts in gyms.
• Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
• Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
• A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
• My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more

This salary for the role is Grade 13, ranging from £25,183 to 27,711 per annum.

To arrange an informal conversation or for more information about the role, you can contact Luke Green on 01823 359603

If you have everything you need, just hit the apply button. We can’t wait to hear from you.