Technical Services Officer (Structural)
Organisation: Kirklees
Directorate: Place
Service Area: Development
Hours: 37
Number of Jobs: 1
Location(s): Home working and 1‑2 days office based at Civic Centre 1, Huddersfield, HD1 2NF
Position type: Permanent
Grade: Grade 12
Salary: £45,091-£47,181 (plus an additional Retention Payment of £3,000 per year, bringing total to £48,091-£50,181)
Closing date: 30th January (initial reviews on 30th October and each 30th of subsequent months; final closure 31 January 2026, 11:55 PM)
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 the 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 Council’s 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.
Individuals must be able to travel independently to and from locations away from the office such as construction sites or consultant’s offices, and be able to visit construction sites, and ascend and descend scaffolding as an example, on accompanied visits.
We need talented and ambitious people to join our team. If you are this person, we look forward to hearing from you.
Important Information:
* We encourage applications from people with all differing abilities. If you need any support completing an application form, or any other format for the application or Job Description, please contact the Recruitment Team by email or phone: 01484 221000 and ask for Recruitment.
* We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
For more information about this post please contact Richard Lowe – Strategic Manager Technical Services on 01484 221000.
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