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Requisition ID:  13599
Posted date:  2 Oct 2025

Highways Technician

Team: HIG - Traffic Management Highways

Job Family: Enabling - CBG8

Salary: £31,022 - £33,851 per annum pro rata

Hours: 37 hours per week (2 positions available) 

Location: You will be expected to attend Thorn Turn Depot, Houghton Regis and any CBC office location as often as needed to carry out your role, which will be no less than once per month.

Contract Type:  Hybrid – Permanent
Closing Date: 26th October 2025

Interview Date: W/C 3rd November 2025

  

About the role:

We’re excited to offer the opportunity to join our Highways Team as a Technician and play a part in ensuring our roads are safe, accessible, and well-maintained.

 

As part of our team, you will:

  • Help shape and deliver a range of small schemes to improve the operation and safety of the local highway network.
  • Commission and analyse data to help inform decision-making.
  • Field queries and respond to requests for advice and guidance.
  • Instruct small works from our highways contractor and track and report progress.
  • Undertake site visits and investigations.
  • Make a positive contribution to the work of the wider team who are responsible for ensuring road space is efficiently and effectively managed for the benefit of all users.

 

If you're keen to make a positive difference to our local communities and want to build or advance a career in highways engineering and traffic management we’d love to hear from you.

 

What We’re Looking For

We’re seeking candidates who bring:

  • An interest in practical problem-solving using engineering
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Strong technical skills, with the ability to draft short reports
  • Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage a varied workload
  • Good communication skills in responding to emails from, colleagues, residents and occasionally, local councillors
  • Ability to travel independently to undertake site visit and surveys
  • An understanding of how the public highway is managed, including relevant legislation and regulations

 

Ideally, you’ll hold (or be willing to work towards) an HNC or equivalent qualification in civil engineering or a related discipline. We welcome candidates with relevant experience and training, and we can offer internal and external development opportunities for the right person.

 

Additional Requirements of the Highways Technician

  • Proficient in IT with hands-on experience using various Microsoft Office applications
  • An interest in how the road and footpath networks are structured and how this affects people traveling on foot, by bike or in a car or goods vehicle
  • Familiarity with working in an environment where there are regulations designed to ensure people are protected from risks
  • Experience of delivering small projects  
  • Awareness of how council’s operate

 

Why Join Us?

Become part of a supportive team where you’ll benefit from flexible working arrangements, opportunities to learn new skills, and the chance to advance your career. Help us deliver better services to our community and take on a role that offers both challenge and the chance to make a positive difference to peoples’ daily experience when travelling.

 

 

Our Offer

We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page

 

Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer.  We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.

 

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You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in this Recruitment Pack.

 

Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.

 

For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Peter Orchard (Principal Highways Officer) at peter.orchard@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk  or call 0300 300 6532

 

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