Role: Planning Technician REF 1704102
Contract Length: 12 weeks
Location: Hybrid/Northampton – 1-2 days onsite ideally
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £20 per hour
Spinwell is recruiting for a Planning Technician for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PLANNING TECHNICIAN
- Manage shared inboxes, responding professionally to public enquiries.
- Assist with the monitoring and handling of complaints and feedback from customers, MPs, and Councillors.
- Enter, maintain, and extract data from planning databases and mapping systems.
- Register, validate, and process planning applications.
- Calculate and process planning application fees and recording payments.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE PLANNING TECHNICIAN
- Educated to GCSE standard (Grade C / Level 4 or above) in Maths and English (or equivalent) or equivalent experience to demonstrate the same level of numeracy and literacy skills.
- A basic knowledge of planning process and an ability to understand policy documents, plans, maps (including GIS) and architectural drawings.
- Demonstrate ability to prioritise workload and operate under own initiative.
- Demonstrate evidence of use of numerical and literacy skills.
- Experience in administrative processes.
- Good communication skills
- Able to deliver excellent customer service under pressure
- Computer literate with experience of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) and experience with document management systems.
- Good organisational skills
- Willingness and ability to travel as required independently to multiple sites across the Council’s administrative area to undertake site visits, or further away to attend meetings and events on behalf of the Council. For example, the ability drive with access to own transport.
- Good time management skills
- The ability to carry out site visits or investigations on a variety of outdoor locations including domestic properties, overgrown land, and building sites. Must be able to use ladders and scaffolding and be able to walk across sites with uneven ground conditions.
- Ability to demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behaviour, physical, social and welfare needs.
If you are a Planning Technician, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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