About us at Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the Traffic & Capital Delivery Team as a Traffic Data and Network Monitoring Officer. In this role, you will primarily be responsible for monitoring traffic and other network management indicators, as well as supporting the team in ensuring that the council’s statutory and non-statutory duties as a Traffic and Highway Authority are effectively delivered.

The role involves close liaison and coordination with stakeholders, including third parties, commissioning traffic surveys, supporting the administration of Traffic Management Orders, and carrying out general duties related to the scope of the role.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

You will be working within the Traffic & Capital Delivery Team in the Network Management Section. The team is responsible for the delivery of capital projects and the management of the road network across the borough.

About You

1. A ‘people person’ who is comfortable with numbers and able to communicate key messages effectively.

2. Comfortable using different types of IT, with an appetite to learn new systems.

3. A customer-focused approach, with a helpful and cooperative attitude.

4. Flexible, with the ability to work as part of a team.

If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:

1. Data collection, collation, and interpretation, preferably within an engineering environment.

2. Preparation of basic statistical reports and written summaries.

3. Familiarity with quality assurance in data management.

4. Liaising with internal and external stakeholders.

5. Flexibility and the ability to work as part of a team to support the day-to-day running of the service.

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email: Aurang.Zeb@hounslow.gov.uk

Interviews for this job will be held during 11th May 2026.