Technical Manager - (Re-advertisement)

Job Description

An opportunity has arisen within Neighbourhoods, Regeneration and Sustainability for a Technical Manager to join our Technical Support service on a permanent basis.

NRS brings together a diverse range of Glasgow City Council operational, technical and development services that focus on sustainable transport, place making and delivering essential city services.

If you’re interested in working within a service that touches on all aspects within the city, please read on.

 

Position Details

The Technical Manager is responsible for managing our Public Space CCTV network engineering, install, and maintenance programmes. The role will oversee various projects from management to delivery, along with quality management processes, ensuring all projects are delivered on time and to the highest relevant industry standards. This will be delivered through the provision of advanced technical advice and expertise.

You will lead a team of engineers to ensure the seamless operation of our CCTV systems, and will leverage your expertise in modern CCTV systems, security systems, and engineering principles & networks, to maintain and enhance our networks effectiveness and efficiency.

Further details regarding what this role entails are noted within the Job Description for the post, whilst the Person Specification document confirms the key competencies you are required to demonstrate in your application.

An SCQF Level 8 qualification in either Information Computer Technology or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience is an essential requirement for this role.

 

Contract Details

Weekly Hours: 35

Work Pattern: Monday - Friday

Annual Salary: £41,304.05 - £47,408.34 on an incremental scale

Hybrid working is available in this role. If you’re shortlisted for the post, we look forward to telling you more about our approach to ensuring needs of the business are met along with flexibility to maintain your work-life balance.

 

Key Pre-Employment Information

As part of the pre-employment checks for this post the successful candidate(s) will have to undergo a BS7858 Security Screening check which will involve a 5 or 10-year career history check, a financial probity check and criminal record screening. This will be completed in addition to the Council’s own standard pre-employment checks, which will be detailed to the successful candidate(s) following interviews.

As part of the pre-employment checks for this post the successful candidate(s) will have to undergo a Non-Police Personnel Vetting Level 1 check which assesses the honesty, integrity, reliability, and overall suitability for clearance of non-police personnel who have unsupervised physical and/or remote access to police premises, classified police information and/or intelligence, financial or operational assets, and/or police systems.

 

Benefits of working with us

Glasgow City Council employees have access to a wide-ranging and generous benefits package. If you’re successful in your job application, you’ll have access to these benefits which include:

• 26 days (182 hours) paid annual leave, rising to 29 days (203) hours after 5 years’ service
• 5 days (87.5 hours) paid public holidays each year
• Local government pension scheme
• Life and Personal Accident Insurance
• Occupational Sickness Pay
• Staff Benefit Scheme
• Glasgow Credit Union

 

 

For guidance on completing your application, and to view other benefits on offer for employees of Glasgow City Council, please visit the following link: https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/vacancies.

Application Packs

Alternative Application Packs can be requested in other formats for example, Large Print, Braille, Audio and other languages. To request an alternative Application Pack please phone 0141 287 1054. Packs will be posted out to you within 3 working days of receiving your telephone request. Please note the closing date of the job advert to ensure that you give yourself plenty of time to complete your application form and return it to us.

Further Information

Please note that Glasgow City Council is currently completing a Job Evaluation exercise and introducing a new pay and grading structure which may impact on current salaries quoted in job adverts, see

https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/jobevaluation

 

For further information about working for us please refer to our website https://glasgow.gov.uk/article/5005/HR-policies