Asset Management Technician

Leicestershire County Council; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Leicestershire County Council is seeking an Asset Management Technician to support the Environment & Transport Department. This role involves data analysis and management of highway assets, providing an excellent opportunity to develop skills in GIS and asset management. The position is a fixed-term contract until April 2026, offering a hybrid working arrangement.

Qualifications

• GCSEs in English and Mathematics or equivalent experience.
• Experience using Microsoft Excel for data analysis.
• Familiarity with GIS tools like QGIS or ArcMap.

Responsibilities

• Support asset data improvement projects and condition data analysis.
• Collect and provide information for internal and external reporting.
• Assist with highway status investigations and local authority searches.

Skills

Attention to detail

Data analysis

Communication

IT skills

Education

GCSE English Language and Mathematics grades A - C (or equivalent)

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Geographical Information Systems (e.g. QGIS)

Job description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £27,717 - £30,066 per annum

Working Hours:37 hours per week

Contract Type: Fixed Term until April 2026 (Maternity Cover)

Closing Date: 23rd May 2025

Interview Date(s): TBC

The Environment & Transport Department's Network Data & Intelligence (NDI) team is looking to fill the Asset Management Technician position on a 12-month fixed term contract, to cover a maternity leave absence. The role provides support to a wide variety of tasks and projects relating to highway asset management and is an excellent opportunity to develop knowledge and skills in asset management, geographical information systems (GIS) and data analysis.

About the Role

The Asset Management function within the NDI team is responsible for collecting, analysing, providing, and improving the quality of information and data that supports highway maintenance planning and other evidence-led decisions relating to highway infrastructure assets.

Day-to-day, the Asset Management Technician is involved in asset data improvement projects, condition data analysis, and the collection, collation, and provision of information needed for internal and external reporting purposes.

This work requires a high level of attention to detail, an ability to pick up unfamiliar concepts, systems and procedures quickly, and skills/experience using Microsoft Excel and Geographical Information Systems (e.g. QGIS) for processing and analysing data.

The role may also be required to support other technical areas of the NDI team, including but not limited to highway extent and status investigations, local authority searches, road traffic collision data, and the Local Street Gazetteer (LSG).

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Have GCSE English Language and Mathematics grades A - C (or equivalent) or demonstratable experience that would fit well into the requirements of this post.
• Have good IT skills, with specific experience using Microsoft Excel to analyse data.
• Have skills and experience using a Geographical Information System (GIS) such as QGIS, MapInfo Professional or ArcMap to use, create, analyse, or provide digital geographical information.
• Have experience of quickly and successfully learning new concepts, systems, and procedures that you may not be familiar with.
• Be able to explain how you maintain a very high level of attention to detail, to ensure that all work is completed accurately and efficiently.
• Be able to communicate and request information clearly and accurately both in writing and verbally, and adapt how you communicate to your audience.
• Be able to explain how you manage workloads that can vary considerably in complexity, urgency, and importance.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to,equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and 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 individual's 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 Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion,please contact:

Daniel Watson

Principal Transport Analyst

0116 305 8130

[e-mail]

How to Apply

Please apply sending us your CV as well a supporting statement, detailing how you meet the requirements of the post.The supporting statement should beno longer than 500 words. 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 Apply section 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 telephoning0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home .

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