Development Coordinator

We are seeking a driven and proactive Development Coordinator to join our busy Highways team. In this role, you will ensure contractors and works promoters meet their legal responsibilities helping to coordinate safe, compliant, and efficient development-related works across Wiltshire. Through regular site inspections, you will verify compliance with a variety of regulations and permit conditions, issuing defect notices, documenting findings, and recovering costs where needed.

Drawing on your expertise in street works, civil engineering, and traffic management, you can provide clear, practical guidance to developers, contractors, and the public, ensuring works are legally compliant, and carried out with the travelling public in mind. This role is a key interface between a range of internal and external stakeholders, ensuring compliance with the Councils statutory duties under the Traffic Management Act, the New Roads and Street Works Act and the Highways Act 1980. The post holder has a key responsibility to coordinate and minimise disruption caused by these essential road works.

The Network Management Team oversees the council’s duties under key traffic and highways legislation, ensuring roadworks and network activities cause minimal disruption and help protect Wiltshire’s Highway Network. If you are well versed in the Highways Act 1980 and have experience of producing technical reports and undertaking data analysis to provide recommendations, combined with the proven ability to identify and diagnose complex problems/issues, and communicating clearly in challenging situations, we would love to hear from you.

Why us? Wiltshire Council is a friendly, welcoming place to work, with a 'One Council' ethos. Our hybrid working model means office staff are on site for at least half their hours, community-based staff carry out at least half their admin time in a workplace, and customer-facing roles work entirely from their service location. We are committed to creating a workplace where positive relationships thrive and everyone feels engaged, supported and able to do their best. We do not tolerate discrimination, bullying or harassment. Everyone is expected to promote a culture of inclusion, dignity, trust and respect, guided by our vision and Our Identity.

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