About the role
Are you an outdoors enthusiast with horticultural knowledge? Are you passionate about nature conservation and sustainability? Join our team as a Green Highways Maintenance Officer and make a tangible impact on the environment!
The Green Highways Maintenance Officer role, based in our Green Infrastructure team, offers an exciting opportunity for individuals with a love for the outdoors and expertise in horticultural maintenance. As part of our Highways Maintenance team, you will spearhead a new way of working, utilising cutting-edge asset management software to enhance the maintenance and preservation of our green highways including the maintenance of grass verges, weeds, hedges, shrubs, and trees.
In-person interviews will be conducted during the week commencing 16th September at New Shire Hall, Alconbury Weald, PE28 4YE.
For more information or to discuss this opportunity further, please contact Emma Stannard, Green Infrastructure Manager, at emma.stannard@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
If you are eager to apply your horticultural knowledge and passion for the outdoors to create positive environmental change, we invite you to join our dedicated team. Together, let's shape a greener, fairer and more caring Cambridgeshire.
What will you be doing?
Site inspections across the county highways network, sometimes in very remote locations.
Investigating reported faults on the green highway network from members of the public and elected members.
Updating data collected whilst onsite using our asset management system.
Leading change in the way we manage and maintain our highway green infrastructure to contribute to nature recovery and our Climate Crisis response.
Implementing innovative practices to ensure the sustainability and resilience of our green spaces.
Utilising your horticultural knowledge to enhance the beauty and biodiversity of our highways.
Collaborating with various stakeholders, including community groups, partner organisations, and elected council members.
Engaging in customer correspondence and building strong relationships with stakeholders.
Utilising your grounds maintenance, highways and best practice horticultural knowledge daily.
You will spend some of your time lone working as well as working as part of the team and be willing to work outdoors in all weather conditions.
About you
We are seeking enthusiastic candidates with the following qualifications and attributes:
Drive to make our green highways network open and accessible to all user groups and understand their induvial needs.
Ability to navigate daily to remote site locations where public transport may not be available.
Ability to plan routes of site visits to minimise travel time and environmental impact.
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to engage with diverse audiences.
Motivated to make a visible difference in our communities and contribute to our net zero ambition.
Have experience/knowledge in MapInfo or other GIS related software.
Confident in using a range of software to support on-site operations.
Have an open mindset and be willing to change and evolve.
Be willing to ask What, if and why?
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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