Street Lighting Project Engineer in Northallerton

Office base is the Leeming Bar Street Lighting Depot. You will need to have the ability to travel across the wider Council area when required with the ability for some flexible working, including home working. Are you looking for an electrical street lighting role within an innovative and exciting Electrical Engineering team? Are you searching for a new challenge in an organisation that offers great benefits and a fantastic work/life balance? An opportunity has arisen to join us as a Project Engineer within our Electrical Engineering team.

The Team

Our Electrical Engineering team forms part of Highway Operations within the Highways and Infrastructure Service. We’re responsible for managing over 63,000 street lighting columns and 8,000 illuminated signs and bollards, as well as delivering the Council’s ambitious energy reduction and carbon management programmes. We’re proud of our reputation for innovation, sustainability and quality. Our work has been recognised nationally, including:

• National Green Apple Reward
• Bronze Green Apple Award
• NHT Improving Public Satisfaction – Excellent Service Award (LED replacement programme)
• Honourable mention in the Council’s Efficiencies Awards

Now in our fourth year as a unitary authority, this is an exciting time to join North Yorkshire Council. With an annual budget of around £7m, the team delivers capital infrastructure schemes, maintains electrical assets and runs a successful design-and-build street lighting service for housing developers and other external clients. We work closely with our partner contractor, North Yorkshire Highways (NYH), as well as supporting parish and town councils across the county.

The Role

As a Project Engineer within our Electrical Engineering team, you will:

• Manage and oversee the work of our contractor on both new street lighting installations and ongoing routine and reactive maintenance activities associated with the Council’s street lighting and illuminated sign and bollard stock.
• Ensure effective delivery of ongoing street lighting and illuminated sign maintenance.
• Ensure electrical testing, structural testing and inspections are carried out at required intervals and defects are resolved.
• Identify, assess and advise our street lighting design team with improvement projects including the provision of new street lighting for housing developers and the improvement of the Council’s existing street lighting network.
• Maintain accurate records of installed assets and completed works to support future maintenance and adoption.
• Liaise with internal clients (highways colleagues, colleagues in regeneration or housing) and external clients such as parish councils, developers and consultants.
• Support the council’s energy-reduction and carbon-management programmes, including LED replacement and efficiency initiatives.

What you will bring

You don’t need to meet every requirement—training and development will be provided. What matters most is your technical foundation and willingness to learn. You’ll ideally have:

• An electrical qualification such as HNC/ONC in Electrical Engineering, City & Guilds, or equivalent.
• Proven experience in street lighting maintenance and contract management.
• Confidence working with new technology, systems and software.
• The ability to analyse information and make sound decisions that influence projects and people.

What you will get in return

In return for your expertise, we offer a genuinely supportive working environment with excellent benefits:

• 28 days’ annual leave, rising to 34 days after 5 years, plus public holidays.
• Opportunities for extended unpaid leave and career breaks (subject to business needs).
• Fitness and wellbeing discounts, including reduced gym memberships across the county.
• Lifestyle savings with discounts across hundreds of UK high-street and online retailers.
• Salary sacrifice schemes, including car leasing, cycle to work, technology purchase and salary finance.

Plus, lots more.

Contact and apply

For an informal conversation about our role please contact Neil Jackson at neil.jackson2@northyorks.gov.uk. Applying is easy, simply register your details, remove your personal details and upload your CV.