Highways Technical Assistant
| Posting date: | 01 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £29,064 to £31,537 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 September 2025 |
| Location: | Leeming Bar, Northallerton |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | North Yorkshire Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Are you looking for a varied role in a dynamic and innovative team environment that can make a real difference to North Yorkshire’s highways?
Are you someone who is looking to develop their technical skills within a frontline operational service?
If so, you are just what we are looking for!
Our Team
The Electrical Engineering team sits within the Highway Operations section of the Highways and Infrastructure Service. The core focus of the Electrical Engineering team is to manage client activities relating to over 63,000 street lighting columns and 8000 illuminated traffic signs and bollards together with on-going delivery of the Council’s capital replacement and energy reduction programme.
The Role
As a Technical Assistant you will:
· Provide technical assistance for the implementation and delivery of a county-wide and reactive maintenance programme.
· Develop and monitor annual and long-term maintenance and capital programmes.
· Use and interrogate IT related programmes such as the Street Lighting Asset Management System
· Support with production of site plans and works instructions
· Liaise with contractors, colleagues, members and other stakeholders about works undertaken within the highways team
For more details, please see our Job Description.
About You
The successful candidate will:
· Have strong analytical skills
· Be an excellent communicator
· Have good decision-making skills
· Be able to prioritise and organise their own workload as well as being able to work well within a busy team environment.
What can we offer you?
In addition to your salary, we offer a range of great benefits to help you financially and make life a bit easier.
These include:
· a local government pension scheme with 18.1% employer contribution
· salary sacrifice schemes
· employee discount benefits including shopping, supermarkets, gym discounts and more!
· travel loans
· Health Assured – confidential help and support for your wellbeing
Click on our Total Rewards Brochure at the bottom of this advert to see the full range of benefits.
Contact and apply:
For further information about the role please contact Neil Jackson on Neil.Jackson2@northyorks.gov.uk
Applying is easy, simply click on apply now, register your details, remove your personal details from your CV and upload by midnight on Sunday 14th September
Your personal statement should outline your motivation for applying, and how you meet the Person Specification criteria for the role.
Key dates:
Closing date: Sunday 14th September
Interview date: Week commencing 22nd September
NYC is committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.
We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
North Yorkshire Council’s purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services, we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.
Are you someone who is looking to develop their technical skills within a frontline operational service?
If so, you are just what we are looking for!
Our Team
The Electrical Engineering team sits within the Highway Operations section of the Highways and Infrastructure Service. The core focus of the Electrical Engineering team is to manage client activities relating to over 63,000 street lighting columns and 8000 illuminated traffic signs and bollards together with on-going delivery of the Council’s capital replacement and energy reduction programme.
The Role
As a Technical Assistant you will:
· Provide technical assistance for the implementation and delivery of a county-wide and reactive maintenance programme.
· Develop and monitor annual and long-term maintenance and capital programmes.
· Use and interrogate IT related programmes such as the Street Lighting Asset Management System
· Support with production of site plans and works instructions
· Liaise with contractors, colleagues, members and other stakeholders about works undertaken within the highways team
For more details, please see our Job Description.
About You
The successful candidate will:
· Have strong analytical skills
· Be an excellent communicator
· Have good decision-making skills
· Be able to prioritise and organise their own workload as well as being able to work well within a busy team environment.
What can we offer you?
In addition to your salary, we offer a range of great benefits to help you financially and make life a bit easier.
These include:
· a local government pension scheme with 18.1% employer contribution
· salary sacrifice schemes
· employee discount benefits including shopping, supermarkets, gym discounts and more!
· travel loans
· Health Assured – confidential help and support for your wellbeing
Click on our Total Rewards Brochure at the bottom of this advert to see the full range of benefits.
Contact and apply:
For further information about the role please contact Neil Jackson on Neil.Jackson2@northyorks.gov.uk
Applying is easy, simply click on apply now, register your details, remove your personal details from your CV and upload by midnight on Sunday 14th September
Your personal statement should outline your motivation for applying, and how you meet the Person Specification criteria for the role.
Key dates:
Closing date: Sunday 14th September
Interview date: Week commencing 22nd September
NYC is committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.
We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
North Yorkshire Council’s purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services, we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.