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An exciting opportunity to work within this fast paced environment, helping to oversee the successful delivery of one of the largest highways maintenance contracts in the UK. Working with other technical experts to provide sound contract managment within the technical area of Environmental Maintenance.

This area covers all aspects of:

• Street Cleaning
• Ground Maintenance and Arboraculture
• Winter Maintenance

Within Sheffield City Councils publicly adopted highway area.

This role will entail:

• Analysis of sites and data in relation to performance management city wide.
• Participation in site based work to ascertain service levels (either as part of formal survey work, or adhoc checks).
• Planning, co-ordination and reporting on both formal and informal site checks.
• Meetings with internal and external stakeholders.
• Providing sound technical knowledge to members and other decision makers within the council, including current legislation and codes of practice.
• Providing a detailed knowledge in relation to the contract specification and desired outcomes to a variety of stakeholders via written responses and verbal communication in a variety of settings.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups.  We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.

To apply please click the Apply Now link below.