Transport Planning Technician

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

Job summary

Leicestershire County Council is seeking a Transport Planning Technician for the Highway Development Management team. This role involves maintaining consultation systems, providing administrative support, and ensuring accurate information recording. Ideal candidates will have strong communication skills and relevant qualifications, contributing to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• GCSE English Language and Mathematics Grades A - C or equivalent required.
• Experience with MS Office and GIS software is essential.
• Strong attention to detail and excellent communication skills needed.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update the HDM electronic system for consultation responses.
• Provide administrative support and process invoices.
• Monitor consultations and manage correspondence.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Education

GCSE English Language and Mathematics Grades A - C or equivalent

Tools

MS Office

GIS mapping software

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 (pro-rata for part-time)

Working Hours:37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 4th June 2025

Interview Date(s): TBC

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Transport Planning Technician within the Highway Development Management (HDM) Team at Leicestershire County Council.

About the Role

As Transport Planning Technician within the HDM team, your responsibilities would include (but not be limited to):

• Maintaining and updating the HDM electronic system (currently MasterGov) for recording, providing and monitoring consultation responses.
• Providing a superuser role for MasterGov including developing appropriate training manuals, providing appropriate training, representing the team on the corporate working group, liaising with the system provider to maintain and develop the system and managing access rights to the system.
• Monitoring and managing consultations and correspondence arriving through the HDM generic inbox.
• Providing administrative support in the provision of the HDM system including processing invoices as appropriate and to provide reports giving management and performance data.
• Monitoring and reviewing consultations on planning applications and pre-application enquiries and ensuring appropriate information is input onto electronic systems to record and monitor progress.

About You

To apply for this post, you must have:

• GCSE English Language and Mathematics Grades A - C or equivalent, or relevant demonstrable experience.
• Use of MS Office programmes and use of GIS (geographical information systems) mapping software.
• Attention to detail to ensure accurate recording of information.
• Ability to work to tight timescales, agreed timescales and be able to manage your own workload.
• Ability to search and interrogate systems in order to extract relevant information and produce reports.
• Excellent communication skills to liaise with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to problem solve and identify new and efficient ways of working.

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:

David Hunt

Senior Transport Planner

0116 305 8241

[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.org.uk/support

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