Highways Maintenance Technician

Cambridgeshire County Council; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing package

Additional annual leave (4 weeks)

Flexible holidays

Additional Voluntary Contributions (p+

Development opportunities

Paid volunteering hours

Peer Support Groups

Employee discounts (Cambs Rewards)

Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Job summary

Cambridgeshire County Council is hiring a Highways Maintenance Technician to help keep Cambridgeshire moving. This hands-on role covers inspections, coordinating reactive and planned maintenance, and working with partners to improve the county's road network.

You'll work across depots in Witchford, Huntingdon, Whittlesford and March, drive council vehicles, perform safety checks and engage with communities. You will need GCSEs, a full UK driving licence and a practical, organised approach.

Qualifications

• GCSEs including English, Maths and Science or equivalent.
• Strong communication and organisational skills.
• Ability to solve problems and work independently.
• Basic IT skills (e.g. email, Word, Excel).
• A full UK driving licence (essential).
• Willingness to work outdoors and travel across the county.

Responsibilities

• Carry out highway inspections across the county using council vehicles from depots in Witchford, Huntingdon, Whittlesford and March.
• Investigate reported road issues and gather information for repairs
• Support maintenance planning and delivery, both reactive and planned
• Work with colleagues and contractors to solve problems and deliver improvements
• Engage with local communities and parish councils to understand priorities
• Check quality of repair works and ensure standards are met
• Record findings and update systems for performance tracking
• Help coordinate work across teams to maximise value and avoid duplication

Skills

Strong communication

Organised

Problem solving

Basic IT skills

Education

GCSEs including English, Maths and Science

Tools

MS Word

MS Excel

Email

Job description

About the role

Help keep Cambridgeshire moving

Are you practical, organised, and enjoy working outdoors?

Do you want to play a key role in keeping roads safe and well maintained for local communities?

We're looking for a Highways Maintenance Technician to join our Highway Maintenance & Management team.

This is a hands‑on role where you'll make a real difference across Cambridgeshire's road network.

What will you be doing?

In this varied and rewarding role, you will:

• Carry out highway inspections across the county using council vehicles from one of our highway depots located in Witchford, Huntingdon, Whittlesford and March.
• Investigate reported road issues and gather information for repairs
• Support maintenance planning and delivery, both reactive and planned
• Work closely with colleagues and contractors to solve problems and deliver improvements
• Engage with local communities and parish councils to understand their priorities
• Check quality of repair works and ensure they meet expected standards
• Record findings and update systems to support performance tracking
• Help coordinate work across teams to maximise value and avoid duplication

This role is a mix of fieldwork, teamwork and communication, giving you a real insight into how highways services operate.

Driving and fieldwork

You will:

• Drive council vehicles (including inspection vehicles and vans)
• Carry out vehicle safety checks
• Work across a range of locations, including sites with limited access
• Scope and order reactive highway maintenance work

A full UK driving licence is essential.

About you

Essential

• Good general education (GCSEs including English, Maths and Science or equivalent)
• Strong communication and organisational skills
• Ability to solve problems and work independently
• Basic IT skills (e.g. email, Word, Excel)
• A full UK driving licence
• Willingness to work outdoors and travel across the county

Desirable (but not essential)

• Knowledge of highways or local government
• Experience working with a range of stakeholders or the public
• Additional driver training or experience with larger vehicles

What you'll bring

We're looking for someone who:

• Works collaboratively and supports a "one team" approach
• Takes pride in delivering a high-quality service
• Treats customers and communities with respect and empathy
• Supports our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
• Is motivated to help us achieve our ambition of becoming a Net Zero organisation

Why join us?

• A varied, active role with real community impact
• Opportunities to develop skills in highways and asset management
• Supportive team environment with training and development
• The chance to grow your career in a vital public service

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage...

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self‑organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers