Highways Asset Inspector - Daytime Field Surveyor

National Highways; Exeter; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways is seeking a role focused on highway asset inspections and safety surveys. The successful candidate will perform driven inspections, collect data, and feed findings to engineering teams while working on-site in a daytime pattern.

The role may include unsociable hours and occasional night work, with some travel required. You should live within an hour's commute of a depot. Driving is essential, with a clean licence and up to 3 points preferred.

Qualifications

• Knowledge or experience of highways asset condition inspections or equivalent inspections experience in other sectors
• Knowledge or experience of highway asset maintenance and legal aspects of highways maintenance/inspection
• Good understanding of Health and Safety applicable to highway maintenance works
• Good IT and data collection skills, ideally with the ability to use data capture devices
• Ability to manage own workload whilst working as part of a team

Responsibilities

• Carrying out regular driven Safety Inspections, reporting and raise work requests for high priority safety defects
• Carrying out cyclical and ad-hoc driving and walking asset inspections on the network in line with agreed schedules, procedures and standards, recording all asset conditions and findings (e.g defects and causes)
• Monitoring event signage and illegal signage and escalating any issues
• Supporting regional engineering teams in planning activities by collecting and sharing up to date asset condition and inspection information
• Prioritising health, safety and wellbeing needs of customers and colleagues in in all activities

Skills

Highways inspections

Health & Safety awareness

Data collection

Teamwork

Time management

Tools

Data capture devices

Job description

National Highways is seeking a role focused on highway asset inspections and safety surveys. The successful candidate will perform driven inspections, collect data, and feed findings to engineering teams while working on-site in a daytime pattern.

The role may include unsociable hours and occasional night work, with some travel required. You should live within an hour's commute of a depot. Driving is essential, with a clean licence and up to 3 points preferred.