Salary: £25,183 - £30,559
Grade: E,F,G
Contract: 2 years fixed initially
Hours: Full time 37 hours per week
Location: North Yorkshire (Hybrid: home, office, site visits)
Can you embrace a stimulating workload; do you appreciate a desirable working environment full of rich culture and heritage amongst the UK’s finest countryside and towns? Could you help us deliver Electric Vehicle infrastructure to support this new transformation mode of transport. Would you like to be part of a gifted, motivated, and welcoming team of professional officers within the Council focused upon this specialist workload. Is a public sector role for you; benefits include cultural ambiance, job satisfaction, generous holidays, agile hybrid working from home, modern and stately offices plus market leading pension offer. North Yorkshire is interested in hearing from anyone who feels they would be a suitable fit for this role.
Our Team
The Major Projects and Infrastructure Team is a key resource within the Environment Directorate and comprises 38 full time staff, 5 of who are dedicated to the EV programme already plus extensive support from multiple consultancy partners. Our wider core functions are to deliver capital programme infrastructure, regeneration and transport projects, generally ranging in scale from £500k up towards current largest at £69m, while also working with strategic partners such as National Highways on circa £1b interventions. The team is also responsible for the Counties bridges and retaining structures capital works and maintenance of over 5000 assets.
North Yorkshire Council is the UK’s largest council area in geographical size by over 50% compared to the next biggest and the 3rd largest in terms of population. Introduction of EV infrastructure will present a challenge to cover the whole county where vibrant towns and visitor destinations mix with rural areas conferring renewable energy technology will be employed to power the charging stations.
The Role
Responsible for providing essential project management, co-ordination and support for EV infrastructure growth, achieving shared outcomes and objectives. You will manage and co-ordinate, projects, and partnerships ensuring delivery within agreed budget, timelines and quality standards. Stakeholder management, overseeing partner consultants / contractors & grant funding bodies, oversight of statutory orders, project financial oversight, risk management, procurement, and programme. The post will be initially focussed on an OZEV grant funded project and related work to deliver a £9m package of charging infrastructure comprising c1400 units across c300 sites both on and off street within the public realm across the whole County.
What we’re looking for:
- A recent graduate with an interest in renewable energy, electric vehicles, sustainable transport, or environmental sustainability. We will accept applications from current undergraduates in their final year with a view to starting upon completion of their degree to at least a 2.1 standard.
- This is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a growing sector while contributing to North Yorkshire’s long-term sustainable transport and renewable energy goals.
What you will bring:
You should be educated to degree level or be able to demonstrate equivalent significant project management experience in the workplace; ideally a project management qualification such as Prince 2 or APM will support your application.
You will have excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to liaise with multi agency partners, funding bodies, political leaders and public in achieving best project outputs and their support. You will be collaborative and embracing of the Teams warm ambiance, supporting colleagues and service managers in the delivery of transformational projects to enhance the areas urban quality, transportation options and economic opportunity.
Technical understanding will be an advantage and the wiliness to learn new skillsets working within town centre / highway / coastal environments. Have the ability to problem solve and find practical solutions, have analytical and decision making skills as well as excellent organisation skills. You will also have strong ICT skills including the use of a number of different software packages.
What’s in it for you:
As a council we are lucky to benefit from access to modern technology enabling us to work from various locations – including several NYC bases and from home as default in a hybrid working model. This post comes at no exception and the successful candidate will have an agile approach to their work, optimising resources and making the most of our flexible working options. We can offer you a comprehensive benefits package including continuous professional development; flexible working hours; premium local government pension scheme; salary sacrifice schemes and employee discount benefits.
This is an exciting and varied role that can be adapted to an individuals with the right skills and experience and avails future progression as the Counties devolution deal will lead to more capital funding opportunity.
Contact and apply
If you would like an informal conversation regarding the role, please contact Richard Binks on 07815 644264
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Key Documents
Key dates
Closing date: 11th May
Interview date: week commencing 19th May
NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.
We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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