Highways Inspector

National Highways; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to improving England's roadways as a Highways Inspector. In this dynamic role, you will conduct essential inspections of highways assets, ensuring safety and compliance with regulations. You'll work both independently and collaboratively, engaging with various teams to enhance asset conditions and support maintenance strategies. With a commitment to safety and customer satisfaction, this position offers a chance to contribute significantly to the strategic road network while enjoying a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

Annual leave starting at 26 days

Flexible working hours

Life assurance

Health and wellbeing support

Cycle to work scheme

Career development investment

Family friendly policies

Community volunteering leave

Financial discounts platform

Qualifications

• Experience in undertaking asset condition inspections.
• Knowledge of highway maintenance and safety regulations.

Responsibilities

• Conduct inspections of highways assets and report defects.
• Support regional engineering teams with asset maintenance plans.

Skills

Asset condition inspections

Highway asset maintenance

Health and safety knowledge

Data collection

Teamwork

Education

Relevant qualifications in highways or engineering

Tools

Data capture devices

Microsoft Office

Job description

About the job.

The Highways Inspector will be responsible for completing inspections of designated route(s) and highways assets in line with agreed inspections schedules, procedures and standards. Reporting to the Inspector Team Manager you will join a team of Inspectors undertaking safety and asset condition inspections, survey works and signing off on the quality of asset repairs work. You will be required to undertake inspections independently or with another member of the team.

In line with the duties of the role you will be required to travel throughout the strategic road network, so a full clean driving license is essential to be considered. The role will also have on duty responsibilities, and you may be required to work unsociable hours, bank holidays and weekends on a rota basis, or as determined by the Team Manager. There is a requirement to carry out inspections of some assets at night. These inspections are planned and published onto the team rota. We also provide a package of formal training including NRSWA and Highway Inspector Lantra / City & Guilds courses.

This role can be based from our Sandy depot or our Newport Pagnell Depot.

• Carrying out cyclical and ad-hoc highways asset inspections in line with agreed timescales and procedures, ensuring that asset condition and all inspection findings, such as defects and defect causes, are recorded in the relevant systems in line with data capture standards.
• Inputting into the development of inspections plans and schedules
• Carrying out regular Safety Inspections and patrols, reporting and raising work requests for high priority safety defects on the network.
• Monitoring event signage and illegal signage on the network, escalating issues in line with agreed procedures.
• Supporting regional engineering teams in the development of asset maintenance and investment plans, by ensuring asset condition and inspection information is gathered, up to date, and available at all times.
• Ensuring the health and safety needs and wellbeing of customers and employees are fully considered and accounted for throughout the planning and delivery of each service activity.
• Assisting with the delivery of the East Region Inspector rolling roadblock trial.
• Completing small find and fix works for minor issues - All tools and training provided.
• Engaging with our communications department to provide responses to external customers.

About you.

• Knowledge or experience of undertaking asset condition inspections in the highways sector or equivalent inspection experience in other sectors.
• Knowledge or experience of highway asset maintenance.
• Good understanding of H&S implications of working on high-speed roads applicable to highway maintenance works.
• Knowledge of highways law applicable to the inspection and maintenance of highways.
• Experience in data collection and use of data capture devices / good understanding of Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to manage own workload whilst working as part of a team

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.

We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Why you should join us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We're proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you'll be a great fit for our organisation.

A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our benefits package

• Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
• Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
• Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working
• Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
• Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
• A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
• Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are

• Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
• Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
• Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year

If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:

• Right to work check
• 3 year employment history references
• DBS criminal record check
• Social media and adverse journalism check
• Driving licence check (if applicable)
• Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)
• Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)

And finally

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