Clerk of Works

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs); Stafford; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government organization in Stafford is looking for a Highway Engineering professional to join their team. The role involves maintaining highway assets, providing technical support, and ensuring compliance with regulations. The ideal candidate should have experience in highway maintenance management, knowledge of design standards, and excellent communication skills. The position offers flexible working arrangements and the opportunity to make a significant impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing or delivering structural highway maintenance.
• Understanding of testing and installation requirements for highway projects.
• Knowledge of design standards and statutory requirements.
• Experience in partnership with internal and external bodies.
• Experience with stakeholder communications.
• Experience participating in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Demonstrable ability to use Microsoft software packages.
• Full driving license required.

Responsibilities

• Inspect and maintain records of highway maintenance activities for compliance.
• Carry out inspections of maintenance sites to ensure technical specifications are met.
• Provide technical advice and support to colleagues and contractors.
• Prepare evidence on defects and oversee defect remedy schemes.
• Liaise with the Highways Laboratory for materials testing.

Skills

Management of structural highway maintenance

Testing and installation for highway assets

Design standards knowledge

Stakeholder communication

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Microsoft software proficiency

Full driving license

Job description

It’s an exciting time to join our Highways Team here at Staffordshire County Council!

Our vision is to help Staffordshire’s economy grow, so that everyone has the opportunity of a good job and good prospects in a beautiful, safe, accessible, vibrant, cultural, prosperous, business friendly and sustainable county.

Staffordshire has great places and great connections, boasting the beautiful rural landscape of a shire county together with excellent transport links to major destinations across the country.

We are committed to fixing more roads and improving transport and digital connections and we are making significant investment into the quality of our roads. To ensure we can deliver our ambitious Highways Transformation we are looking to grow our team of highway engineering professionals and develop talent for the future.

Although your base will be in Stafford, we have highway maintenance teams working from a number of locations across the county and are able to discuss flexible working options and locations that might be applicable for this role.

Main Responsibilities

• Inspect, monitor and maintain records of maintenance activities within the highway to ensure compliance with legal, technical and other regulations placed upon the Council as a Highway Authority to ensure that the condition of the highway asset is protected.
• Carry out a programme of inspections of live maintenance sites to ensure activities delivered through contractual partners meet the required technical specifications.
• Provide technical advice and support to internal and external colleagues of specifications and codes of practice. This includes ensuring contractors are aware of their requirements and informing them where further evidence of quality assurance is required.
• Identify and prepare evidence/information on defects and non-compliances and oversee the schemes to remedy defects as instructed by the Project Engineer.
• Liaise with the Staffordshire Highways Laboratory to ensure required materials testing is carried out on all sites in accordance with the Council’s Highways Specification.

The Ideal Candidate

You will have experience in the management or delivery of structural highway maintenance together with:

• Understanding of testing and installation requirements for highway assets.
• Knowledge and understanding of design standards, design guidance and statutory requirements associated with highway projects.
• Experience of working in partnership with internal and external bodies.
• Experience of communications with stakeholders, contractors and third party organisations.
• Experience of participating in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Demonstrable ability to use Microsoft software packages.
• Full driving license required.

“We’re happy to talk flexible working”

Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat about the role please contact Daniel Vale or Simon Richards at: daniel. [e-mail] or [e-mail]

We are committed to flexible working, with options for working from home and office depot locations across Staffordshire.

Interviews will be held Wednesday 17th December 2025.

Our Recruitment Process

We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a GoldAward Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as yourapplication meets the minimum criteria for the post.