Technical Services Officer (Structural)

Huddersfield’s towns and valley’s weave together vibrant, young, dynamic communities with breath-taking Yorkshire landscape. The Kirklees area has built on its proud industrial heritage by being a place that encourages innovation and entrepreneurship.

Our vision for Kirklees is to be a district which combines a strong, sustainable economy with a great quality of life - leading to thriving communities, growing businesses, high prosperity and low inequality where people enjoy better health throughout their lives. This vision is supported by our Health and Wellbeing and Economic Strategies, backed up by Local Plan and transformative investment programmes. This is an exciting and challenging time, and we want to expand our team to manage and deliver construction related projects, to achieve the Council’s ambitions. We are looking for a Technical Services Officer (Structural) to support Technical Services Manager with leading and ensuring effective design and delivery of capital programmes and individual projects involving new build, extensions and remodelling schemes relating to schools, leisure centres, office accommodation, depots, care homes, listed buildings etc that form part of the Council’s portfolio of buildings and land.

Your key responsibilities as a Technical Services Officer (Structural) will be:

• To design/manage the performance for a range of capital projects involving multi-discipline and single discipline design teams, preparing new build, refurbishment, and remodelling building contracts.
• To act as the Councils Technical Authority in relation to its Built Environment and Assets, developing, implementing, monitoring, and amending technical specifications, strategies, practices, and standards to ensure compliance with all statutory requirements.

We are looking for someone who has:

• A relevant professional or academic qualification or extensive experience that supports the skills needed for Technical Services Officer (Structural)
• Strong IT skills with experience using a variety of packages such as Microsoft Office, AutoDesk, NBS, Tekla Tedds (Trimble) design packages.

We need talented and ambitious people to join our team. If you are this person, we look forward to hearing from you.

Individuals must be able to travel independently to and from locations away from the office such as construction sites or consultant’s offices. In addition, individuals need to be able to visit construction sites, and be able to ascend and descend scaffolding as an example, on accompanied visits.

There is currently an additional Retention Payment of £3000 per year (subject to annual review) attached to this role. This is split into two payments in June and December. You become eligible for the next bi-annual payment after 6 months employment and successful completion of your probationary period. This will take your salary to £48,091 - £50,181 per year.

In your application please also ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the shortlisting criteria detailed in the Employee Specification section of the Job Profile

For more information about this post please contact Richard Lowe – Strategic Manager Technical Services on [phone removed] 

The closing date for this vacancy is 30th January; however, we may close the advert earlier if we receive a sufficient number of suitable applications. Initial application reviews will take place on 30th October, followed by reviews on 30th of each month.