Highway Engineering Technician in Leek Wootton

We are seeking a passionate, motivated and proactive individual to join County Highways on a one-year secondment. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape and promote our evolving programme of work at a time of significant change and innovation across the service. With new policies, strategies and initiatives emerging — ranging from Artificial Intelligence and Carbon Net Zero to wildflower planting, EV charging infrastructure, and highway filming permits — you will play a key role in supporting the development of a modern, forward-thinking Highways service.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality technical and specialist advice to senior managers, elected Members, customers, stakeholders, and service partners across all areas of County Highways.
• Act as the first point of contact for all enquiries relating to County Highways policies, procedures, standards, and national requirements.
• Communicate effectively with a wide range of internal and external audiences, including Government Departments, regional agencies, elected Members, and senior leaders.
• Support the development, implementation and oversight of highway policy and strategy in line with statutory obligations and the Council's responsibilities as the highway authority.
• Contribute to ensuring the service operates safely, efficiently, and in full control of risks and emerging issues.

You will bring

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, with the confidence to engage with senior stakeholders and represent County Highways professionally.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with the capacity to understand and explain technical highway matters.
• An organised and proactive approach, with the ability to work flexibly across multiple workstreams.
• A genuine interest in shaping the future of our highways service and supporting the delivery of innovative projects and policies.
• A good highway maintenance background; be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge of relevant service specific highway legislation (including any relevant codes of practice relating to highways).
• Be able to support the development and implementation of strategies, policies and procedures aimed at the efficient and effective delivery of the service.
• Provide advice to those engaged in activities such as budgetary and financial planning, litigation, legislation, and health and safety.
• Support the development of the organisation's strategic plans, including the creative use of information and communications technology.
• Represent the Council at internal and external meetings, groups and partnerships, ensuring that the Council priorities and ambitions are represented.

The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.

Additional information

We recommend submitting your application as soon as possible. We will start the initial shortlist and assessment process while the job advert is running. Please check your emails or applicant account via our jobs portal for any updates on your application. If you are applying for this role on a secondment basis please ensure you have permission from your line manager.

Working for Warwickshire – This is the difference you make. Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision; could you be one of them? We are committed to ensuring Warwickshire's economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.

Your future matters to us. We provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.