Asset Management Technician

TN United Kingdom; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Leicestershire County Council is seeking an Asset Management Technician for a 12-month fixed-term role. This position involves supporting highway asset management through data analysis and GIS, providing an excellent opportunity to develop skills in asset management. The role requires attention to detail and effective communication skills.

Qualifications

• GCSE English and Maths or equivalent experience required.
• Good IT skills with Excel for data analysis.
• Experience with GIS software like QGIS or ArcMap.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Attention to detail

Data analysis

Communication

Education

GCSE English Language and Mathematics grades A - C

Tools

Microsoft Excel

QGIS

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23.05.2025

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Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

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

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

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 (GIS) such as QGIS for processing and analysing data.

The role may also be required to support other technical areas of the NDI team, including 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 demonstrable 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 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 on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Daniel Watson

0116 305 8130

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 want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 303 0222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal.

By applying for this post, you agree to our terms and conditions.