Job Description

Job Introduction

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Street Lighting Engineer

Full-time - Permanent post

Help us keep our streets safe, efficient and ready for the future

About Us:

The Royal Borough of Greenwich is a vibrant, diverse and historic part of London, known for its ambition and commitment to delivering high-quality services for residents. We're investing in modern, sustainable infrastructure to help create safer streets, reduce carbon emissions and build a borough that's ready for the future. Our Street Lighting team is an essential part of this vision helping to create a safe, welcoming, well-lit, energy-efficient and welcoming place for everyone.


The Royal Borough of Greenwich is seeking a Street Lighting Maintenance Engineer to ensure our lighting network is well-designed, properly maintained, and ready to meet the challenges of a low-carbon future.


This is a role where you'll combine hands-on technical expertise with strategic thinking, making sure our streets stay bright today while embracing smarter, more sustainable solutions for tomorrow.

The Role:

Lead on the inspection, maintenance, and repair of street lighting assets to ensure safety, reliability and compliance.


Design and deliver new lighting schemes, including electrical layout, column positioning, and energy-efficient specifications.


Manage contractors, utilities, and suppliers, ensuring work is completed on time, to budget, and to the highest standards.


Provide expert advice on electrical installations, fault diagnosis, and compliance with current legislation, BS standards, and the IET Wiring Regulations.


Undertake site surveys and feasibility studies, preparing cost estimates, specifications, and technical reports.


Keep up to date with new and emerging technologies such as LED upgrades, smart lighting controls, central management systems (CMS), and renewable power sources.


Support energy-reduction and carbon-emission initiatives, ensuring the street lighting network aligns with council sustainability targets.


Engage with stakeholders and the community, responding to enquiries and providing clear updates on planned works and improvements.


Maintain accurate records, update the asset inventories, and condition data to guide investment and long-term planning.

About You:

We're looking for a practical engineer who also sees the bigger picture and can work well under pressure, with a commitment to continuous improvement and sustainability.


Ideally, you will have:


A current G39 & NRSWA accreditation.


You would have an excellent understanding of street lighting design, installations, and maintenance with a strong knowledge of electrical systems and components.


You will have a good knowledge of smart lighting systems including LED, Solar, CMS and other energy saving solutions along with a good knowledge of UK Regulations and Safety Standards.


You will have excellent principles of project management with the ability to manage multiple projects from initial survey to final installation while ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets.


You will forge excellent working relationships and communication skills to assist and support colleagues, councillors, residents and other departments of the Royal Borough, including utilities and associated stakeholders.

As well as this, you may also be required to undertake a discipline lead role whilst working alongside less experienced members of the team using your experience to mentor and develop apprentices and other department members that utilise the street lighting team and services.



Interested?



If you're ready to make a visible difference and help deliver a modern, energy-efficient street lighting network, we'd love to hear from you.



For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Tony Hutchinson - tony.hutchinson@royalgreenwich.gov.uk

Diversity Statement:

Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Advert Close:

All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated.

Early Advert Close:

Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any job advert earlier than the advertised closing date where there is reason to do so (for example high volume of applications).

How Applications are Scored:

Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statements addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statements section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

Salary:

Salaries advertised are for a standard working week of 35 hours unless otherwise stated. Please use this 'Salary Calculator to help you calculate a pro rata salary.

Our Staff Values:

Our Staff Values are important to us. Candidates will be continuously assessed against our staff values throughout the recruitment process. Where candidates demonstrate views and behaviours that do not meet the standards of our staff values, we reserve the right to reject their application/ registration.

Salary

PO2 - 41,442 to 44,331

Frequency

Annual

Job Reference

royalgreenwich/TP/1022/343

Contract Type

Permanent

Closing Date

01 October, 2025

Job Category

Transport

Business Unit

Communities, Environment and Central (CEC)

Location

Woolwich, London, United Kingdom

Level of Disclosure and Barring Service, DBS, check required

No DBS *

Posted on

17 September, 2025