Streetlighting Technician – Yate

Overview

How you’ll make a difference

As a Streetlighting Technician, you will work with operational and design teams to ensure street lighting standards are maintained within asset management and relevant legislation. 

Managing the street lighting asset database, you will maintain new technologies and maintenance programmes and be the first point of contact to respond to enquiries and provide information to the public and stakeholders.

What you will be doing

• It will be your responsibility to manage and develop the street lighting asset database, ensuring alignment of new technologies, maintenance programmes, policies and strategies. 
• You will create and present reports, to assess street lighting stock and build future works programmes, advising on the action required.
• Using your technical knowledge and expertise, you will assess situations, resolve problems and provide advice and guidance to meet changing operational needs.
• Monitoring works for compliance within policy and design, you will attend technical meetings with other authorities and departments.
• Regularly, you will contribute to street lighting policy reviews, updating and maintaining technical specifications and policy documents relating to street lighting and associated infrastructure.

What we need from you

• It is essential that you hold an HNC or equivalent in a related discipline such as building services, highways, asset management, civil engineering or electrical.
• You will have knowledge of Electrical Regulations 1989 and the Health and Safety Act 1974. 
• We require you to have recent experience in database administration, including the extraction and analysis of complex information and a high level of competence in Microsoft operating systems, including Word and Excel.
• Due to the nature of the role, you must have a customer focused approach and good interpersonal skills to establish and maintain positive relationships.

What you need to know

• You will be required to work outside of normal hours in emergency situations, when a call out fee and overtime is paid.

 

Interviews will be held on 15th October 2025.

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different

• As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities. 
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.   
• 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 real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

• We’re building and shaping communities which people are proud of.   
• We’re planning for the future; building and improving the roads, railways, schools, green spaces, and houses. 
• We’re providing essential services across our communities to ensure they are safe and well maintained.  

 
We’ve achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.   

We’re making a difference, be part of it!    
To view the full job description, please click this link: Technician Street Lighting – Job Description

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