| Salary £46,142 - £51,356, Per annum | Permanent, Full Time, 37 hours per week | Pro Rata
International Sponsorship – this role is not open to international sponsorship
Lancashire County Council
Here at Lancashire County Council, we are helping to make Lancashire the best place to live, work, visit and prosper. Lancashire is a vibrant and striking place and Lancashire County Council exists to serve everyone who lives or works in Lancashire. As the fourth largest local authority in the country and the largest in the North, we serve over 1.2 million residents.
The Highways Asset Management Service is responsible for ensuring that Lancashire County Council meets its statutory duty as a highway's authority through strategic management of over 7,500 kilometres of vehicular highway network, containing 152,000 streetlights,15,000 illuminated signs/bollards, over 2000 bridges and other structures, together with many other highway assets.
The Role & Responsibilities
A very experienced and professionally competent practitioner providing expert professional services, advice to customers and contributing advice to senior management.
The post holder will use their expertise in arboriculture, silviculture, harvesting and marketing timber to support the delivery of highly complex and high risk service problems. Although they will work within well-defined functional objectives, they will be expected to exercise a fair degree of professional discretion and responsibility in interpreting Council practice or procedures including decisively influencing senior decision makers