Principal Officer - Traffic Management
| Posting date: | 18 March 2026 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 April 2026 |
| Location: | nottingham, NG2 3NG |
| Company: | Nottingham City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7216 |
Summary
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: 37 x 1 post available
Worker Type: Hybrid & Office Worker
Salary: Starting Salary is £40,777 (Level one) rising to £44,075 ( level four)
Location: Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham NG2 3NG
We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…
Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.
In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.
* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.
About the Role
The Traffic & Flood Risk Management Service area seeks to deliver an excellent customer focused service in an efficient, effective, and economic manner, with specific focus of the Council’s role as the Highway Authority whilst adhering to Corporate, Departmental and Government priorities.
We’re looking for a proactive, skilled Principal Officer to help support a multidisciplinary team delivering high‑quality traffic management services across the city. You’ll coordinate Traffic Regulation Orders, develop, deliver and maintain progress of highway projects, investigate and resolve traffic issues and the consolidation of Traffic Orders. If you can balance technical expertise, legislation awareness, stakeholder engagement, and innovative problem‑solving to keep our network safe, efficient and future‑ready—we want to hear from you.
Candidates will need to outline in their application how they meet the Person Specification and the 6 bullet points below
About You
The ideal candidate will have:
- To support the Technical Leads/Service Manager at public forums, Committees and other meetings to discuss traffic management, highway development control, workplace parking levy or other related highway issues
- Investigate complex traffic management, workplace parking, and environmental problems raised by Members, the public and other sources including assessing alternative solutions, implementing Traffic Regulation Orders as necessary, preparing engineering designs, accurate work programmes and estimates for projects, monitoring their progress and arranging implementation on site in accordance with financial, legal and other requirements.
- To provide tracking information and be responsible for the management of projects within the team’s work programme, including budgets, ensuring that financial, legal and other requirements.
- To use developed Traffic Management skills and a detailed knowledge of highway disciplines to deliver the Council’s Transportation priorities including considering and anticipating the impact of new government legislation/policies on the delivery of the service taking immediate action where necessary to prepare for the future.
- To set and maintain performance measures and structures for the purpose of tracking performance, tackling issues that arise. To coach and mentor others to address development needs, agreeing development goals with Management where necessary.
- To take responsibility for financial management processes, in particular the management of substantial budget profiles / information associated with capital work programmes and the control and monitoring of expenditure.
You can find the job description for this post here.
At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.
For informal enquiries please contact Sue Thorpe, Service Manager Traffic Management & Moving Traffic Enforcement by email at susan.thorpe@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
Closing Date: April 16th 2026
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: TBA
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