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Location Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ
work_outline Basis Flexi Hours
Job profile for Technical Officer
Technical Officer
Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ 30/08/2026 Technical Officer
The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.
Job details
Salary £34,434 – £39,152 (pay award pending)
Contractual hours 37 Basis Flexi Hours
Package We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages.
Date posted 06/08/2026 Job reference REQ0001351 Attachments FINAL1748LH.Jul26.Technical Officer.JDPS.docx Technical Officer- Shortlisting Questions.docx
Job description
Join us in Brighton and Hove – a unique, energetic, diverse centre for culture in the Southeast and an exciting place to develop your career.
As part of the Environmental Protection team you will play your part to deliver high quality services to our different communities of residents and businesses.
You will join a team who deliver services to customers by investigating noise complaints and other nuisance work and resolving cases for residents.
Contract type: This role is full-time permanent.
About the role
You will work as part of a team in delivering Environmental Protection work consisting of investigating statutory nuisance complaints such as noise and odour.
As an effective communicator involved with a wide range of service users you will investigate complex complaints and find resolution, you will use problem solving and mediation skills to best effect.
You will find informal resolutions and on occasion be required to use formal means to ensure compliance and secure successful outcomes to complaints.
Encouraging a diverse workforce
Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it’s what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.
Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).
Why work for us?
- be connected
- be confident
- be innovative and creative
- be diverse and inclusive
- be healthy and psychologically safe
For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.
Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.
We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.
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