Highways Asset Inspector - Field & Night Shifts

Consortium; Polegate; Remote; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways in England is seeking an asset condition and safety inspections professional to join the Inspector Team. You will conduct driven safety inspections, complete survey work, and provide feedback on asset repairs, working either solo or with a colleague while managing your own workload.

The role may involve unsociable hours including nights; you must drive as part of the job and live within an hour’s commute from the Polegate depot.

Qualifications

• Knowledge or experience of undertaking 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 all activities.

Skills

Inspection background

IT and data collection skills

Workload management

Teamwork

Health and safety understanding

Tools

Data capture devices

Job description

National Highways in England is seeking an asset condition and safety inspections professional to join the Inspector Team. You will conduct driven safety inspections, complete survey work, and provide feedback on asset repairs, working either solo or with a colleague while managing your own workload.

The role may involve unsociable hours including nights; you must drive as part of the job and live within an hour’s commute from the Polegate depot.