Streetworks Officer WCC624334

Job Details:

Salary range: £42,912 - £46,854 per annum 
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP 
Hours per week: 36 
Contract type: Temporary up to 18 months
Closing date: 12 August 2026 
Interview date: Week commencing 24 August 2026

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF GRACE’S PASSION AND DEDICATION

The Environment & Communities Directorate in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where dedicated people like Grace are using their skills and passion to progress environmental action in the heart of London.

It was at university where Grace first started campaigning for improved recycling facilities, water refill stations, and other eco-friendly initiatives. When she saw the real difference people could make when they came together, she knew she wanted to dedicate her career to community action for the planet.

When she joined us as Principal Engagement Officer, Climate Emergency, she quickly established herself as a passionate advocate for community outreach, engaging various stakeholders across Westminster in the social causes, impacts and solutions to climate change, air pollution, and biodiversity loss.

Grace became a driving force behind our first Citizens’ Climate Assembly, which took place across two weekends in the summer of 2023. Fifty residents were chosen at random from across our diverse communities to come together, learn about the climate emergency, and deliberate how we overcome the barriers to becoming a net zero city by 2040. The assembly produced several recommendations which have informed the evolution of our Climate Emergency Action Plan. Due to the success of this initiative, we’re holding more assemblies to continue community involvement in local decision-making.

To see the work of the Westminster Citizens’ Climate Assembly, click here.

The Role:

As a Street Works Officer, you can make your own powerful contribution to people across Westminster. Joining the Council’s vital and high-profile Highways Services, you’ll be responsible for delivering the permitting of works on the Highway — including issuing licenses, permits, Temporary Traffic Orders and Crane Licenses.

Your day-to-day will be varied and dynamic, and you’ll work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders, monitoring and challenging quality standards with the aim of minimising complaints and maximising efficiency. A source of expert advice and guidance on network management, works co-ordination and legislative compliance, you’ll ensure that on-street staff are effectively tasked to maximise compliance and minimise risk.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

An established professional with experience in street works or Highways Network Management, you’ll have dealt with Traffic Management and ETON complaint software systems in a previous role. Bringing knowledge of Highways Legislation, you’ll have the ability to understand reasons for technical failures in the highway structure. An analytical thinker capable of identifying improvement opportunities, you’ll work proactively to identify and mitigate risks wherever they arise.

On a personal level, you’ll be a true team player with excellent time management, problem solving and collaboration skills. This is a fantastic opportunity to help build a safer, more resilient network at the heart of one of London’s most vibrant boroughs, and to supercharge your career in the process.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is Our Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.