Play a key role in the effective running of the city’s street lighting and traffic sign operations.

Public lighting has become a high profile and relied upon service by the citizens of Leicester. We are a team of specialists responsible for the effective running of the city’s street lighting and traffic sign operations and this is a fantastic opportunity to join our site operations team, to use your electrical knowledge and skills to provide the support needed to continue our goal of providing an effective and efficient delivery of the Public Lighting operation.

You’ll be a valued member of the operations team which includes both street lighting electricians and street lighting assistant electricians and you’ll be provided guidance to any non-electrically tasks by a qualified team member. 

Based at St Margaret’s Depot, you’ll be part of a team that works at sites throughout in the city installing, commissioning, and maintaining all aspects of public lighting infrastructure, including a comprehensive annual festive decorations programme.

• Hold and manage (and or support others with) a caseload of mostly straightforward work orders, requests and installation schemes.
• Input, monitor, interrogate and analyse data using the highways asset management system.
• Undertake physical tasks such as repairs and groundwork, operate a vehicle or specialist equipment where required, and carry out inspections.
• Liaise with colleagues to provide updates of job status remotely and face-to-face.
• Attend all tutorials and online lectures and tutor meetings and exams, as a specific requirement of the apprenticeship.
• Undertake other learning and development.
• Attend college if required to undertake off-the-job learning as part of the apprenticeship and complete the required theory and practical work.

For the full job description, including the keys areas of responsibilities and accountabilities, please click the 'apply now' button. 

We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible.

• Experience of providing a service to others, maintaining successful relationships, and persuading actions to secure desired outcomes.
• Able to write clear communications and documents that are easy to understand.
• Able to carry out checks, calculations, and validations with accuracy.
• Able to use standard IT systems with competence.
• Knowledge of street lighting or able to acquire this following commencement in post.
• Knowledge of legislation governing the area of work or able to acquire this following commencement in post.