Job Introduction
It's an exciting time to join our Highways Team.
Our vision is to help Staffordshire's economy grow, so that everyone has the opportunity of a good job and good prospects in a beautiful, safe, accessible, vibrant, cultural, prosperous, business friendly and sustainable county.
Staffordshire has great places and great connections, boasting the beautiful rural landscape of a shire county together with excellent transport links to major destinations across the county. We are committed to fixing more roads and improving transport and digital connections and we are making significant investment into the quality of our roads.
To ensure we can deliver our ambitious Highways Transformation we are looking to grow our team of highway engineering professionals and develop talent for the future.
Main Responsibility
In this role you will:
- undertake day-day management of the team responsible for the local street gazetteer, core highway asset data, geographical information systems, collection and analysis of traffic data
- use specialist skills to integrate data across the various in-house and external software systems ensuring high level of data reliability to support the duties of the highway authority and provide information for stakeholders and customers.
The Ideal Candidate
You will have experience:
- in the management, commissioning and delivery of highway information services including systems and processes.
- of supervising and/or managing a team.
- of the use of application programming interfaces (API) between software systems to enable exchange of data.
- and understanding of spatial information systems, SQL, and Microsoft 365 products
If you are unsure whether your qualifications or experience is suitable or you would like an informal chat about this role, please contact the Highway Information Manager: scott.denny@staffordshire.gov.uk
About Staffordshire County Council
We are no ordinary county council:
Our Values:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.
Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.
We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.
Our benefits:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire
Our recruitment process:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities
As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
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