5-6 months contract with a Local Authority
This role involves supporting the Council's Parking Service by focusing on the assessment, design, and implementation of disabled parking bay schemes. The position requires managing applications from initial assessment to execution, addressing parking-related inquiries, and contributing to minor parking and traffic management projects aimed at enhancing accessibility, safety, and traffic flow within the local authority. This is a 5-6 month contract with a pay rate of £28-30 per hour under an umbrella arrangement.
Responsibilities
- Receive, evaluate, and process applications for disabled parking bays in line with Council policies and procedures.
- Advance approved applications through design, consultation, statutory processes, and implementation stages.
- Prepare engineering drawings, plans, schedules, consultation documents, and related correspondence for parking schemes.
- Respond promptly and professionally to inquiries from residents, councillors, stakeholders, and other service users regarding parking and traffic issues.
- Conduct site visits, parking investigations, surveys, and data collection to support scheme development.
Requirements:
- Experience in parking, highways, traffic engineering, local government, customer service, administration, or scheme delivery environments.
- Experience in handling customer inquiries and stakeholder communications.
- Ability to manage workloads and prioritize multiple tasks to meet deadlines.
- Experience in preparing reports, letters, consultation documents, or technical correspondence.
- Relevant qualification in Civil Engineering, Traffic Engineering, Transport Planning, Highway Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD with the capability to prepare engineering drawings and plans.
Additional Information
Working hours are 36 hours per week.
The role is based at Churchill Court, 2 Westmoreland Road, Bromley, Kent, BR1 1AS, United Kingdom, with a work pattern of 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home.
Bi-weekly payment schedule.
The application deadline is 30th October 2026; apply as soon as possible.