Technical Support Officer Countywide Grounds

7 months ago


South Ribble, United Kingdom Lancashire County Council Full time

£25,979 to £29,777 Per annum | Permanent, Full Time, 37 hours per week

**International Sponsorship **- this role is **not **open to international sponsorship

**Location**:Cuerden Depot, PR5 6BJ is the main base, however you will be required to work across various locations across Lancashire.

**We are currently recruiting a**:
**Technical Support Officer **within **Environmental Services **at **Lancashire County Council **.

The Environmental Services team forms part of Lancashire Highway Operations which is responsible for the direct delivery of all highways related schemes across the County made up of 4300 miles of road, 151,000 streetlights and 2955 bridges.

This is a dynamic, innovative team involved in creating, managing, and maintaining a variety of landscapes across the county. We deliver high quality landscape maintenance and projects of all scales across the whole of Lancashire alongside our highways colleagues and other LCC departments. The team also provides a high quality arboriculture and grounds maintenance service to our corporate partners ensuring facilities such as care homes, children's centres and libraries benefit from well-maintained outdoor environments.

We have demonstrated our capabilities to deliver valued and high-profile schemes as well as improve the quality of Lancashire County Council facilities and highways. This success has gained stakeholder confidence which has meant we are now the "Provider of Choice" for Highways Projects, arboriculture and landscape maintenance in Lancashire and have a strong working partnership with all our colleagues in Lancashire County Council.

**About the person**

We are seeking individuals with a passion for managing and improving landscapes to join our fantastic Environmental Services Team. Our arboriculture section is expanding and we are looking for someone to primarily support this hard-working team and at times support other managers within Environmental Services.

An understanding or previous experience within arboriculture and / or landscaping will be an advantage although support is given throughout to learn some of the specifics about this industry.

You'll have an ability to provide diverse technical and administrative support to operational mangers to ensure the continuity of delivering a high standard and safe service, and you'll be a self-motivated individual with the ability to perform tasks independently and accurately.

**About the role**

The role is one of support and involves processing high volumes of information in specified timescales using various software for tasks such as asset management, financial transactions, record keeping, procurement and customer contact.

It's not all office based and time visiting sites across the county to ensure operational managers have all the information they need to plan and deliver work efficiently and safely is required. Our industry operates in some high-risk situations and sufficient understanding of Health and Safety relating to operational sites, traffic management and industry regulations is required, along with a full driving licence.

Our team values excellent customer care and keeping our customers informed and updated in a will be part of your job. You will have the ability to communicate appropriately and confidently to a wide audience including operational staff and managers, wider LCC colleagues, councillors and members of the public.

Maintaining a safe highway network and keeping LCC facilities working all year round involves participation in winter maintenance duties which requires out of hours working on a rota basis.

**Benefits**:
There's fabulous flexibility and the opportunity to create the work life balance you'll love with up to 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays, 2 additional days at Christmas and then further days that can be purchased too.

We have a generous Local Government pension with shared AVC's available and then a benefits package which has everything from dog care to day care, holidays at home or abroad, long service awards, Medicash, inclusivity support groups, discounts on white goods and electronics, cycle to work schemes, salary sacrifice car lease schemes, eye tests and prescription support plus much more. The full range of benefits can be found on LCC Vacancies website.

For more information, please contact **Tamzin Percival on 01772 538544 or Tony Ramsdale on **01772 534410**
- Please feel free to contact us for an initial informal and confidential chat: _

**How to apply**:
Please ensure you have uploaded and attached your supporting statement to evidence how you meet the criteria for the role. The panel may be unable to shortlist you for interview without this evidence.

In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website.

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