Engineer (NRASWA Inspector)

Kirklees Council; Huddersfield; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Kirklees Council seeks an Inspector for its Streetworks Team to coordinate highway works and ensure compliance with legal frameworks. The role entails site inspections, reporting, and direct engagement with various stakeholders while offering opportunities for career progression within the organization.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a Streetworks role preferred, but on-the-job training provided.
• Competent IT user with knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Inspecting Streetworks activities for compliance with regulations.
• Responding to reports and incidents on the highway.
• Monitoring sites throughout the guarantee period.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

IT skills

Education

NRSWA Supervisor accreditation

Operative level accreditation

Job description

We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made - please note that this also includes any CV uploaded. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

Organisation Kirklees

Directorate Place

Service Area Highways & Streetscene

Hours 37

Number of Jobs 1

Location(s) Civic Centre 1, Huddersfield

Position type Permanent

Grade 4-6 (£24,404 - £27,269) (plus £1000 Market Rate Supplement, reviewed annually)

£24,404 - £27,269 (plus £1000 Market Rate Supplement, reviewed annually)

Plus £1000 Market Rate Supplement, reviewed annually

Advert Wording

As a Highway Authority, Kirklees Council has responsibility for co-ordinating all works on the highway to ensure that the Council’s obligations under the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, Highways Act 1980, Traffic Management Act 2004 & the Kirklees Permit Scheme minimise the impact of road works on highway users, and to ensure that sites are safe whilst underway and that reinstatements are completed to an acceptable standard.

Kirklees Council’s Streetworks Team manages approximately 16,000 works permits per year on 1900km of road network through towns such as Huddersfield, Dewsbury and Holmfirth, and across the rural countryside and moorland.

The Streetworks Team also undertakes the coordination of activities for major investment projects such as the council led town centre regeneration schemes, the Transpennine Route Upgrade (rail), various statutory undertaker (utilities), council highway maintenance investment programmes, and public events.

The Streetworks Team is extremely busy and is looking to recruit additional Inspectors.

Reporting to the Principal Engineer and working as part of a friendly team of co-ordinators, inspectors, and technical officers, your duties will include, inspecting Streetworks activities for compliance with regulations, reporting on works in progress, works that have overrun, defective apparatus and reinstatements, and monitoring of sites throughout the guarantee period.

You will be required to inspect Highways Act licence applications (for skips, scaffolds etc) and monitoring them whilst in progress.

Generally, within the role you will be required to respond to reports and incidents on the highway and take immediate action when significant highway dangers are identified. This may require changing planned activities, or staying on site until the highway has been made safe.

The role is primarily working independently, visiting numerous sites per day. The successful candidate will be organised and self-motivated, present a calm and approachable manner, and demonstrate a willingness to learn.

A working knowledge of Streetworks systems would be an advantage and experience of working in a Streetworks role is preferred but is not essential, as on the job training will be provided. The applicant should ideally hold the NRSWA accreditation at Supervisor level. Consideration will be given to applicants that hold the Operative level accreditation, so long as they commit to achieving the Supervisor standard within 6 months of starting the role.

You should be a competent IT user, with good working knowledge of a range of software packages including Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel and you will need to be able to use handheld inspection devices.

You will be customer focused and possess excellent communications skills as the position is a public facing role dealing with council officers, works promoters, and members of the public.

The Streetworks Team offers a great career opportunity with the Engineer position being the entry level with progression in time when opportunity arise to Senior, Principal and Group Engineer positions.

The role offers flexible working arrangements within the core working hours of the Streetworks Team; the position requires adaptability to respond to unplanned or urgent situations at short notice and until the situation is resolved or the highway made safe.

The Team currently operates a hybrid working model which involves a combination of mobile working from a council provided van and office-based working. The office, at Civic Centre 1, High Street, Huddersfield, HD1 2NF is a modern and central location within the town centre.

Amandeep Hundal is the manager for this role, please contact them on 01484 221000 for an informal discussion, or if you need any more information.

We know there’s a wealth of talent among people who have a disability and we encourage applications from people with all differing abilities. So, if you need any support completing an application form, or any other format for the application or Job Description please contact the Recruitment Team for help by email: [e-mail] or phone: [phone] and ask for ‘Recruitment’.

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