Team Leader – Electrical Engineering/Street Lighting

Are you an experienced Street Lighting Engineer who would be interested in joining an award-winning team delivering a significant programme of work with responsibility for over 70,000 highway electrical assets?

Do you want to lead a diverse team of engineers who are responsible for delivering a wide range of routine and reactive maintenance works and a significant capital investment programme for North Yorkshire Council and our external clients?

Do you want to be part of an exciting and unique role to help realise the council’s net zero ambitions through delivery of a substantial energy reduction programme?

Our Team

The Electrical Engineering team sits within the Highways and Transportation Service within the Environment Directorate section. The core focus of the Electrical Engineering Team is to manage Client activities relating to over 63,000 street lighting columns and 8000 illuminated traffic signs and bollards together with on-going delivery of the Council’s energy reduction programme.

This is an exciting time to join us as we are now well established and into the fourth year of the unitary North Yorkshire Council.The Electrical Engineering Team is a key resource within the Environment Directorate that incorporates a number of engineers, technicians and support staff working alongside our partner contractor North Yorkshire Highways (NYH). With an overall budget of circa £7m, our core functions are to deliver capital programme infrastructure and other projects, maintenance of the electrical infrastructure and to provide a successful street lighting design/build service for numerous external clients. The team also collaborates with NYH to provide a commercial maintenance service to some Parish and Town councils within North Yorkshire.

The Role

We are looking for a motivated Team Leader – Electrical Engineering/Street Lighting – capable of operating with significant commercial acumen who can lead the team and work with a combination of established and innovative technologies across the varied landscape of rural North Yorkshire ranging from our two national Parks, areas of outstanding beauty (AONB) and beautiful coastal locations to vibrant towns and communities.

As a key role of importance within this growing team, the Team Leader role is critical to the transformation and development of the service. This coupled with the council’s uniquely large size and the diversity of projects you will be working on can offer you the opportunity to make a real impression and enjoy real job satisfaction.

As our Team Leader – Electrical Engineering/Street Lighting, you will work with the Electrical Engineering Manager to develop and lead the planning, statutory procedures, procurement, maintenance and capital replacement of our highway electrical assets.

You will provide leadership, direction, motivation and support to the Electrical Engineering team and ensure delivery of the targets for revenue and capital works.

You will lead the routine and reactive maintenance teams and ensure collaboration with our design team who design varied illuminated replacement projects, amenity lighting: both architectural and for sports facilities, decorative lighting schemes, and discrete lighting projects designed to complement the National Parks’ Dark Skies initiatives. You will also be responsible for the development, assessment and implementation of energy reduction initiatives associated with the council’s electrical assets.

The annual energy costs associated with the council’s highway electrical assets exceeds £3million; whilst significant inroads have already been made to reduce this financial burden there is still more that can be done.

We have recently commenced a £2.4million renewals project that aims to deliver over £250k annual energy savings. The three-year project will see the replacement of around 5,000 assets, across North Yorkshire, with energy efficient LED technology to complement the 55,000 assets already converted to LED.

What you will bring

You must have significant demonstrable management and leadership skills, with a proficient knowledge of highway electrical assets and hazards including street lighting, illuminated signs, floodlighting and decorative lighting. You must also have knowledge of the Electricity at Work Regulations and BS7671: IET Wiring Regulations, and Health and Safety. You must have post qualification experience in Street Lighting, strong stakeholder engagement ability, experience in contract management and an ability to speak as an informed client on a technical basis. Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, and computer skills is a must.

Ideally, we are looking for someone with a degree in electrical engineering, however this is not essential, as long as you hold a qualification in electrical engineering along with significant demonstrable experience in electrical engineering installation and maintenance alongside experience in project management. You should have undertaken the ILP Exterior Lighting Diploma, however if you have not consideration will be given to supporting training for this qualification.

You will have excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to liaise with a range of stakeholders including multi agency partners, external funding bodies, political leaders and public in achieving best project outputs and their support. You will be collaborative and embracing of the positive team culture, supporting colleagues & service managers in the delivery of our projects that contribute to wider service and council objectives. You will have the ability to problem solve and find practical solutions, possess analytical and decision-making skills as well as excellent organisation skills. You will also have strong ICT skills including the use of a number of different asset management and design software packages.

For more details of the role please see our attached job profile.

If you are looking for a new challenge, career progression and a modern working culture, come and join us on this exciting journey.

What’s in it for you.

In addition to your salary, we offer a range of great benefits to help you financially make life a bit easier. These include:

• a local government, career average employer contribution pension scheme
• family friendly leave
• salary sacrifice schemes.
• modern flexible working practices
• learning and development packages
• career advancement opportunities
• employee discount benefits including shopping and gym discounts
• green car and cycle schemes
• travel loans

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Contact and Apply

If you would like an informal conversation regarding the role, please contact Neil Jackson on or Phil Jackson on

Company: North Yorkshire Council

Salary: £51,356 – £55,539 per annum

Location: Northallerton, North Yorkshire

Sector: Corporate Services

Sector: Corporate Management Team

Sector: Highways

Job Role: Engineer

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