Electrical Technician

South Gloucestershire Council; Yate; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading council as an Electrical Technician, where you'll manage street lighting standards and databases while collaborating with design and operational teams. Your role includes responding to public inquiries and ensuring compliance with regulations. Enjoy generous leave and employee support as part of a diverse team making a difference in the community.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Employee wellbeing support

Staff discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in database administration and data analysis.
• Knowledge of Electrical Regulations 1989 and Health and Safety Act 1974.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop the street lighting asset database.
• Allocate and schedule work to operational staff.
• Respond to enquiries and correspondence from the public.

Skills

Customer Focus

Interpersonal Skills

Education

HNC or equivalent in related discipline

Tools

Microsoft Operating Systems

Job description

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How You'll Make a Difference

As an Electrical Technician, you will work with operational and design teams to ensure street lighting standards are maintained within asset management and relevant legislation.

How You'll Make a Difference

As an Electrical Technician, you will work with operational and design teams to ensure street lighting standards are maintained within asset management and relevant legislation.

Managing the street lighting asset database, you will maintain new technologies and maintenance programmes and be the first point of contact to respond to enquiries and provide information to the general public and stakeholders.

What You Will Be Doing

• Daily, you will manage and develop the street lighting asset database, ensuring alignment of new technologies, maintenance programmes and departmental policies and strategies.
• You will allocate and schedule work to operational staff on a daily basis.
• Using the data collected, you will analyse, create and present reports for management and also to assess street lighting stock to build future works programmes and advise operational staff on the action required.
• It will your responsibility to respond to enquiries and correspondence from the general public, MPs, council members, parish councils and other organisations.
• You will be monitoring developer and in house works for compliance with requirements around policy and designs and will represent the section at technical and policy meetings with other authorities and departments.
• We require you contribute to street lighting policy reviews and regularly update and maintain the council’s technical specifications and policy documents relating to street lighting and associated infrastructure.
  
  

What We Need From You

• It is essential that you hold an HNC or equivalent in a related discipline such as building services, highways, asset management, civil engineering or electrical.
• You will have knowledge of Electrical Regulations 1989 and the Health and Safety Act 1974.
• We require you to have recent experience in database administration, including the extraction and analysis of complex information and a high level of competence in Microsoft operating systems, including Word and Excel.
• You must have a customer focused approach and good interpersonal skills to establish a positive relationship with a wide variety of stakeholders.
  
  

What You Need To Know

Interviews are to be held week 23rd June 2025.

How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different

• As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
  
  

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

• We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
• We're planning for the future; building and improving the roads, railways, schools, green spaces, and houses.
• We’re providing essential services across our communities to ensure they are safe and well maintained.
• We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
  
  

We’re making a difference, be part of it!

• To view the full job description, please click this link: Street Lighting Technician job description

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