Inspector

National Highways; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading highway management authority in the United Kingdom is seeking an Inspector to conduct and manage inspections of highway structures, ensuring safety and compliance with standards. The ideal candidate will have a background in Civil Engineering and experience in inspection techniques. This role offers flexibility in location across various regional offices.

Qualifications

• Qualified or working towards HNC/HND in Civil Engineering.
• Proficient in NDT testing techniques.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct inspections of highway structures.
• Identify and report defects, raising work orders.
• Liaise with stakeholders for inspection facilitation.

Skills

Civil Engineering

NDT techniques

Inspection planning

Stakeholder management

Customer focus

Education

HNC/HND in Civil Engineering or Equivalent

Bridge Inspector Certification Scheme (NHSS31)

Job description

About the job.

National Highways is seeking a dedicated Inspector to support our Midlands Region operations. This role offers flexibility in location and can be based at any of our regional offices, including Snowhill in Birmingham or Stirling House in Nottingham.

The main responsibilities of this role include planning and conducting inspections of all types of highway structure assets in accordance with agreed schedules, procedures, and standards. The Inspector will be expected to identify and report defects by raising appropriate work orders, and play a key role in prioritising and developing maintenance schemes to ensure the continued safety and integrity of the infrastructure.

• Work with Inspection Manager to plan, deliver and report upon the cyclical and special Inspection programmes for assets is in line with agreed timescales, budgets procedures standards, guidance and industry best practice.
• Provide support to Inspection Manager by arranging roadspace and creating orders for suppliers to deliver bridge inspections, with customer focus in mind.
• Liaising with key stakeholders such as Local Authorities, Network Rail, Canal & River Trust and land owners to facilitate all types of bridge inspections.
• Producing specifications to permit the procurement of monitoring, investigation, testing and other special inspections of structures.
• Complete cyclical and special inspections of highway assets, including complex structures, identify defects, defect causes and options for remedial actions, in line with agreed timescales, procedures and standards.

About you.

• Working towards or Qualified to HNC/HND in Civil Engineering or Equivalent, with experience of undertaking all types of inspections including the use of NDT techniques for highway structures
• Qualified as a Inspector on the Bridge Inspector Certification Scheme (NHSS31) or working towards qualification with demonstrable evidence of the core competencies required
• Proficient in undertaking cyclical and acceptance Inspections and NDT testing techniques
• Evidence of planning/ organising all types of inspections with good stakeholder management and communication skills with strong customer focus
• Knowledgeable in the use of defect scoring systems and have an understanding of their use in objectively determining the condition of the asset

A bit 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.