Job Description

How you\'ll make a difference

Working within our specialist team you will be preparing and introducing Temporary and Permanent Traffic Regulation Orders. You will receive requests from engineering staff and public utilities, and help prepare and publish legal documents for Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders and Permanent Traffic Regulation Orders and Notices, relating to traffic management measures including Road Closures, Speed Limits, Weight Limits, One Way Streets, Prescribed and Prohibited Movements and Waiting Restrictions, Bus Lanes, Zebra and Signal Controlled Crossings, and Road Humps.
We are seeking someone with the ability to support our Legal Team in this critical role, with some relevant experience or qualification at Technician level. We will also consider candidates for the post at a Trainee Technician level, if you are able to demonstrate experience relevant to the role, with a view to upward progression. Salaries dependant on experience: Trainee Technical Officer: \xc2\xa327,334 - \xc2\xa329,777pa Technical Support Officer: \xc2\xa330,269 - \xc2\xa333,024pa

What will you be doing?

• On a daily basis you will be drafting the legal documents (TRO or notice) using the appropriate council model to ensure consistency and compliance with Highway Law and adapting it for the relevant site.
• Using specialist legal software which has been specifically designed for Traffic Regulation orders, you will ensure orders are progressed in accordance with the Councils policies and in order to comply with Highway Law.
• In the role you will be preparing adverts for the local press and arranging for the advert to be placed. You will also be preparing notices for placement on streets, recording location and condition for future reference and also preparing a website for the advertising of the Traffic Regulation Order or Notice and publishing the legal documents.
• You will collect responses to advertisements, decide whether or not these form statutory objections and forward these to the engineer at the end of the objection period, arranging for the Traffic Regulation Orders to be sealed and copies to be circulated to the relevant bodies and added to the appropriate database.
• It will be your responsibility to ensure that engineering colleagues have up to date and accurate information about schemes, updating details when revisions are required and ensuring projects are closed down in a timely manner on completion of the works. You will also arrange and ensure notes are recorded at monthly traffic scheme scrutiny meetings.
• We require you to attend offices in person for the process of sealing legal orders but otherwise able to work remotely and autonomously, with an ability to visit sites for placement of notices.

What we need from you

Technical Officer:

• You will be educated to NVQlevel 3/BTEC HNC/HND, degree standard or equivalent in a discipline with transferrable skills and may have relevant work experience in Traffic Order procedures or in a related field of legislation and regulation.
• We require you to have a good knowledge of the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions and the Traffic Signs Manual and be able to demonstrate an ability to interpret regulations and legislation.
• Ideally you will have knowledge of Temporary, Experimental and Permanent Traffic Regulation Orders from previous employment,whilst experience of street works or roadworks permitting systems would also be an advantage.
• It is crucial that you have excellent customer service skills and a strong customer focus in your ability to deal with internal and external stakeholders
• You must have good attention to detail and the ability to produce accurate, error free work.At the higher grade we would expect an ability to write and present reports to management and Councillors.
• You will have an understanding of software and applications in order to record and communicate complex issues in a clear and concise manner to a wide audience. This may be Geographical Information Systems or publication and design systems.
• It is essential that you hold a full and current driving licence to enable you to visit sites around South Gloucestershire for the purpose of erecting, maintaining and removing legal notices.

Trainee Technical Officer:

• Ideally, you will be educated to A - level standard, working towards or would like to work towards an HNC/HND, or degree standard, with relevant work experience.
• If you are unable to demonstrate work experience, you will have a high level of understanding or familiarity with: Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions, Traffic Signs Manual, The Highways Act, The Road Traffic Regulation Act, The Traffic Management Act, The Civil Enforcement of Road Traffic Contraventions Regulations, Cycle Tracks Act, Local Authorities Traffic Orders Procedure, Town and Country Planning Act in relation to Highways and public rights of way, Town and Police Clauses Act.
• You will be able to work as part of a legal team, preparing legal documents with a high degree of accuracy and be able to complete work to agreed deadlines
• It is essential that you hold a full and current driving licence to enable you to visit sites around South Gloucestershire for the purpose of erecting, maintaining and removing legal notices.

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different

• We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
• We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a realdifference to the lives of people who live, work, and learnhere.

• We\'re building and shaping communities which people are proud of
• We\'re working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life
• We\'ve achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We\xe2\x80\x99re making a difference, be part of it!
Interviews to be held on the 11th January 2024