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It is an exciting time to join Oxfordshire County Council’s Highway Structures and Electrical Assets.
We’re determined to deliver a high quality, safe, sustainable, and reliable network. The service structure has recently been re-imagined, ensuring we’re best positioned to meet the high expectations of our customers, and evolving challenges such as climate adaptation.
Oxfordshire County Council is looking for a Senior Officer (Electrical) to work within the Highway Electrical Assets Team.
We are responsible for street lighting and illuminated signs in most towns and villages throughout the County and also in Oxford City. A few Parish Councils also own their street lighting, as do district councils and housing associations in car parks and garage areas etc.
We have approximately 60,300 streetlights on roads and footpaths, and 7,100 illuminated signs/bollards (including Zebra Crossing and School Signal Crossing Beacons, Vehicle Activated Signs (VAS) & Highway/Subway drainage pumps.
We ensure to repair faulty lights/highway electrical equipment quickly (i.e. within 7 working days of when contractor receives a report and carry out routine maintenance, the cleaning and changing of lamps on signing equipment every 2-3 years to ensure good operation of highway equipment and for electrical and structural safety.
We also provide a street lighting design service in accordance with British standard 5484 for new housing developments, capital & highway safety schemes across the county, this also includes our own private electrical cable network and an electrical solution to new innovations.

The post involves assisting the Team Leader and Senior Officers with all the technical aspects of the street lighting service, including dealing with the input of all fault reports, and to assist as required with the technical, operational and maintenance aspects of street lighting, illuminated signs/bollards, highway drainage pumps and other miscellaneous highway related electrical apparatus. Giving technical assistance to our internal and external customers.
Providing highway lighting designs utilising specialist software package i.e. Lighting Reality.
Updating the asset management system and the monitoring procedure /performance of the contract and liaising with the contractors to issuing works instructions, programming works, consultations and to ensure works completed to agreed programme etc.
Managing the operational effectiveness of highway electrical programme delivery, including finance and budget reporting, procurement processes, contract management and risk management.
The post holder will require the ability to communicate complex issues effectively by telephone, in writing, by e-mail and in person with our customers, District & Parish, Councillors and members of the public etc.
The role is intended to support the team in all aspects of the business. This will involve the raising of purchase orders to the County Councils supply chain and arranging payment to be made to invoices received thereafter. In doing so the post holder will ensure that Council procurement and financial guidelines are being adhered to.
Undertaking site investigations to determine best value solutions for electrical maintenance and improvements needed on the County Roads.