Leicester City Council
Principal Lighting Engineer
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Reference: REQ7187
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Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Principal Lighting Engineer to lead the design, delivery, and management of street lighting and public realm projects across the city. This role includes responsibility for managing budgets, overseeing contractor performance and procurement processes, and ensuring compliance with relevant standards. You will also manage and mentor a team of four staff and, when required, take overall responsibility for the depot, operations team, and support staff in the absence of the Public Lighting Manager.
The Principal Lighting Engineer will play a key role in delivering safe, efficient, and sustainable lighting infrastructure, supporting the Council's objectives around public safety, carbon reduction, and effective asset management. You will oversee the maintenance and performance of lighting assets, helping to improve service reliability and reduce long-term operational costs while ensuring all schemes meet national standards.
This is a full-time, office-based role at the Slater Street depot (37 hours per week). It offers an excellent opportunity to contribute to a modern and forward-thinking lighting service, driving innovation through the adoption of smart technologies and energy-efficient solutions. Working collaboratively with internal teams and external partners, you will help deliver projects that enhance both the technical performance and the wider urban environment.
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What You Will Be Doing
A typical day for a Principal Lighting Engineer is varied and combines technical oversight, team leadership, and project management. Throughout the day, the role involves attending project meetings with other Leicester City Council colleagues, external contractors, and suppliers. Review the status of lighting schemes, manage risks, and ensure delivery aligns with budget and programme objectives are achieved. The team consists of 4 staff members and ranging in technical abilities and experience.
What You Will Need
- ILP Exterior Lighting Diploma – critical for this role
- Experience of designing and delivering public lighting schemes such as residential lighting, traffic routes, subways, underpasses, passive safe, high mast’s, tunnels, flood lighting & architectural.
- An overall knowledge of public lighting and experience in overseeing work.
What We Can Offer You
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can lookforward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generousannual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexibleworking. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of trainingand development opportunities. In addition, you can choose froma number offlexible benefits,including discounts on city buses and trains. Foran illustrative value of your benefits package,take a look at ourbenefits calculator.
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We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build acouncil that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed ourrecruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you.We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with yourapplication,take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
To apply for this role please complete our application form which contains 6 shortlisting questions, and make sure your CV is also attached.
For an informal discussion about this post please contact Aaron Blackwell (Public Lighting Manager) aaron.blackwell@leicester.gov.uk
Region: Central
Location: Slater Street Depot
Salary: GBP47,181 - GBP50,269 Per Year
Package: Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): GBP68,546.61
Contractual hours: 37
Basis: Full time
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