Lead Play and Infrastructure Officer
| Posting date: | 19 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 October 2025 |
| Location: | Stockport, SK1 3XE |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75743618 |
Summary
Lead Play and Infrastructure Officer
MB4 (£45,091 - £51,356) plus Casual Car User allowance
37 Hours, Full Time
Permanent
Hybrid - Stopford House and homeworking (a minimum of two days per week in the office)
Application Deadline: 3rd October 2025 11:59pm
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: 7th October
Interview Date: 16th 17th October
Interview Type: In person at Stopford House, Stockport, interview will include an exercise relating to the job role
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Join us at Stockport Council MJ Local Authority of the Year 2025
Your Role
Stockport has earned national recognition as a fantastic place to live and work, recently named ‘Council of the Year’ by the MJ Awards. As Lead Play and Infrastructure Officer, you’ll be central to our ambition to deliver innovative, inclusive play, sport, and infrastructure projects across the borough’s parks, open spaces, and public realm. Working within multi-disciplinary teams, you’ll lead projects from detailed design through construction to handover, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality outcomes.
About You
We’re seeking a motivated and experienced professional with a strong track record in delivering public sector public realm projects through detailed design and on-site construction. You’ll be confident managing complex schemes, balancing competing priorities, and budgets, collaborating across teams to meet tight deadlines. Your ability to work effectively with partners and suppliers will be key to achieving timely, high-quality results. A solid understanding of play, infrastructure, and asset management principles and how they inform long-term planning and investment will be essential. Experience in delivering play and infrastructure initiatives with a placemaking focus will be a distinct advantage.
In line with our Live Well approach this role is pivotal in ensuring the play needs of communities are met, supporting the health and wellbeing of our residents.
About Us
You’ll join our Thriving Places Neighbourhoods Greenspace Team, working alongside colleagues who manage capital projects and maintain highway infrastructure. We’re a committed, supportive, and diverse team of staff, consultants, and partners, proud of the impact we make across Stockport. You’ll have opportunities to grow your skills and career while playing a key role in delivering a wide range of meaningful projects.
At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.
If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Jane Bardsley jane.bardsley@stockport.gov.uk to arrange an informal discussion about the role.
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