Street Lighting Operative

3 weeks ago


Leicester, United Kingdom Leicester City Council Full time

**Job details**:
Job reference
- REQ3709

Date posted
- 05/02/2024

Application closing date
- 18/02/2024

Location
- Slater Street Depot

Salary
- £29,777 - £32,076 per year

Package
- Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): £43,738

Contractual hours
- 37

Basis
- Full time

Job category/type
- City Services

Attachments

Job Specification (95).pdf

**Street Lighting Operative**:
Job description

Full Time / 37 hours per week / Permanent

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 specialist street lighting Electricians and Operatives that work at sites throughout the city installing, commissioning, and maintaining all aspects of public lighting infrastructure, including a comprehensive annual festive decorations programme.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our site operations team and use your electrical knowledge and skills to provide support in continuing our goal of providing an efficient delivery of the Public Lighting operation.

Based at St Margaret’s Depot, however you’ll be required to travel across the city to carry out relevant site works. You’ll be provided with the vehicles, tools and plant needed to ensure you can carry out your role efficiently and safely.

This is a Full-time, Permanent post working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday. On occasions you’ll be required to work additional hours according to the needs of the service.

**What you’ll be doing**

Your primary role will be to install and maintain lighting equipment such as lighting columns, lanterns, illuminated signs and festive decorations. You’ll diagnose and repair faults on all aspects of our new and existing electrical installations, including fault finding and jointing of underground network cables. You’ll test and inspect highway electrical installations including terminating and testing lighting and power cables. You’ll ensure that all vehicles and equipment are operated safely and in accordance with local policy and procedures, and kept in good working order, clean and tidy.

**What you’ll need**

You’ll have experience of installing and maintaining electrical lighting systems and working on the Highway, including working at height. You’ll have experience of working within Health and Safety plans that include risk assessments and identifying risks and hazards on site. You’ll have knowledge of Highways Lighting, Signing and associated works. As a proven problem solver who understands the importance of working as part of a team, you’ll be able to work collaboratively with the City Lighting Team to ensure Public Lighting and Traffic Sign projects are completed safely and in accordance with contract conditions.

**What we can offer you**

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including childcare vouchers, discounts on city buses and trains and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.

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