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Highway Adoptions and Agreements Technician

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About the role

North Northamptonshire is growing and evolving rapidly as a Council and as a Community.  It is an exciting time to be joining us.  With Growth comes development, from house extensions to urban extensions; warehouses to wind farms; one person’s dream, is another’s nightmare.  Development is challenging, are you up for that challenge? The Development Liaison Team brings together the Council’s highway advice, highway adoption and highway agreement services supported by our partners in Kier Highways, this small but dedicated team needs you to meet the challenges ahead.

What will you be doing?

We have a new opportunity for you as a Highway Adoptions and Agreements Technician. You will provide technical support considering and processing requests from developers to have their roads adopted by the Council, working with them to enable them to work on the highway to implement highway improvements necessary to facilitate their developments and liaise with the Councils other services and partners to protect the interests of our communities and emerging communities.  You will help our residents, house buyers, elected Members, MPs and developers with enquiries regarding our highway agreement and adoption services.  

About you

You will have a high standard of education preferably at Degree level with a keenness to learn new skills, technical and legal processes and systems that underpin modern development engineering.

We look forward to meeting you as you help us shape our new and emerging communities whilst protecting our existing vibrant and beautiful historic towns and villages. 

Applications for part-time working will be favourably considered.

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.


You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

  • a competitive salary
  • a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
  • lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
  • generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
  • hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

 

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our Key Commitments

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)

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