Contract Officer (Lighting) WCC623403

Salary range: £42,912 - £49,155 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience.
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 8 May 2026
Interview date: Week Commencing 18 May 2026

As Contract Officer for Lighting you will contract manage service providers, ensuring delivery is always to a high standard. Your work will directly contribute to enhancing the City Council, as the custodian of the Public Realm.

Positive collaboration will be key. You will maintain effective relationships with service providers, internally and externally, and at times work with major stakeholders and politicians.

You will plan and manage the annual planned and preventative maintenance (PPM) schedule, as well as manage reactive works and carry out general maintenance. You will ensure all outputs are delivered in accordance with relevant specifications, quality assurance and contractual requirements, as well as compliance with Health and Safety requirements, to protect public and staff safety.

You'll keep on top of how the contract is performing. Identifying issues, taking appropriate corrective action, and referring back to contract terms. You'll validate and audit all applications for payment, monitor rates, support compensation, and efficiently process all Public Realm payment schemes. You'll prepare projection documentation as well. We're keen to continuously improve, and you'll help us do this through audits and reviews.

In joining us, you'll deliver planned, preventative maintenance to a network at the centre of a world city. This is an on street role with flexible working and agile working conditions.

To be fit for the role, you'll have experience in managing and delivering on a lighting contract or highways infrastructure. You've worked on contract management, including budget planning and performance monitoring in a public sector environment. You're confident delivering projects to time and on budget.

Collaborative working is comfortable for you. You're able to understand customer needs and respond promptly.

You're able to identify issues and realise improvement opportunities. You're proactive at recording, managing and mitigating risks. You've contributed to policy, analysis, advice and briefings of a high quality before.

As a member of our team, you'll be committed to equality and diversity. You're open to new approaches, ready to overcome obstacles and achieve goals. Invested in your personal development, you encourage others to do the same. You're happy to provide technical advice and apply this knowledge with accuracy.

It's key that you're able to use Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to a good standard.

You hold - or are working towards - recognised professional qualification or appropriate membership of a professional institute. Relevant experience alone works, too.

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.

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents, over 50,000 businesses, and three quarters of a million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council's strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster, in which our communities are at the heart of decision making. We build an inclusive city that celebrates diversity and welcomes everyone.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and an employer of choice. We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and strive to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to be their best-that is the Westminster Way.

As a forward thinking council, we appreciate that people work in different ways, so staff benefit from a range of flexible working patterns and Agile working.

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

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