Road Safety Officer

Kier Group; Northampton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Road Safety Officer to enhance transportation safety in Northamptonshire. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to implement effective road safety initiatives and educational interventions. The ideal candidate will possess strong organisational and project management skills, along with a solid understanding of highway law. Join a team committed to making a difference in the community, where your contributions will directly impact the safety and well-being of road users. Enjoy a range of benefits including a matched pension scheme and flexible working hours in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Matched Pension Scheme

24/7 Virtual GP Service

Competitive Annual Holiday Entitlement

Opportunities to Buy/Sell Leave

Qualifications

• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Experience in analysing and addressing complex issues.

Responsibilities

• Support the Road Safety team in reducing traffic collisions.
• Manage projects related to speed reduction measures.
• Deploy traffic survey boxes on the highway network.

Skills

Organisational Skills

Project Management

Analytical Skills

Public Speaking

Knowledge of Highway Law

Job description

We're looking for a Road Safety Officer to join our Transportation team based in Brixworth. Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, matched pension scheme, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, with opportunities to buy/sell leave and even more.

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Brixworth, Northamptonshire

Hours: 37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

What will you be responsible for?

As Road Safety Officer, you'll be working within the Road Safety team, supporting them in reducing road traffic collisions occurring in North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire by providing insight and potential solutions for locations that are encountering high levels of injury collisions. Collecting traffic data through the deployment of data boxes at key locations on the highway network, overseeing the VAS (Vehicle activated signs) self-purchase scheme on behalf of the client, aiding the delivery of road safety educational interventions aimed at a series of different road user groups and ages.

Your day to day will include:

• Examining all collision cluster sites, at both a theoretical and physical level, developing engineering interventions, reducing the frequency of collisions and / or reducing the severity of injuries resulting from such collisions, utilising technology such as temporary vehicle activated signs, ascertaining the effectiveness of such a device, in a certain area, at reducing the overall speed of traffic in that area.
• Managing projects in relation to speed reduction measures, for example the temporary and permanent vehicle activated signs and variable message signs, delivering evidence led and added value road safety initiatives in collaboration with partners, stakeholders and local communities as well as ‘at no cost' facilitation opportunities for third party delivery.
• Forging links and building partnerships with internal and external organisations, promoting and facilitating road safety and sustainable travel, maintaining professional relationships with partners, other local authorities and stakeholders seeking and sharing best practice.
• Deploying traffic survey boxes on the highway network.
• Supporting the delivery of road safety educational interventions.

What are we looking for?

This role of Road Safety Officer is great for you if:

• You have strong organisational and project management skills, are well versed in analysing and addressing complex issues, demonstrate effective IT skills and experienced in processing and interpreting detailed information.
• Enjoy dealing with members of the public, comfortable delivering public presentations to a range of diverse audiences.
• Drive and have a full licence for travelling to different locations, sound relevant knowledge of highway law and the highway code.

Rewards and benefits:
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

Diversity and inclusion:
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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