Road Safety Technician

Ringway Jacobs; Essex; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sick Pay

Extra leave (up to 5 days)

RJ Rewards discounts

Life Assurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Ringway Jacobs is seeking a Road Safety Technician to join our Essex teams across multiple sites. You will help deliver Vision Zero by communicating road safety messages to students, the public and businesses, and support meetings with SERP partners.

The role involves advising on highway matters, implementing policies, handling complaints, and delivering timely programmes within budget. A flexible/hybrid pattern is available with travel across Essex expected.

Qualifications

• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel.
• Intermediate Microsoft Office skills; training can be provided.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Willingness to work flexible hours.

Responsibilities

• Support policy and procedure implementation across Essex highways management systems.
• Provide timely, accurate advice to senior leaders and the public on highway matters.
• Respond to complaints to meet targets and provide value for money.
• Contribute to ordering of work to deliver programmes on time and within budget.
• Deliver road safety education and awareness interventions to various stakeholders.
• Collaborate with partners to support enforcement and campaigns.

Skills

Full UK driving licence

Willingness to travel

Microsoft Office

Good communication

Flexible hours

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Location: Flexible / Hybrid working (Various sites across Essex)

Contract Type: Permanent

We are seeking a Road Safety Technician to join our team across multiple sites in Essex. Working within Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP) working to deliver Vision Zero, zero road deaths or serious injuries in Essex by 2040. This role will be working with partner organisations of SERP and with public to communicate road safety messages.

The Road Safety Team are actively working across the whole of Essex to delivery the SERP annual plan. This is communication of Vision Zero and the Safer System approach to road safety. To support this the Road Safety Technician will be involved with a range of projects and delivering tailored behaviour change messages to a range of stakeholders from students, members of the public, businesses etc.

The Role

• Supporting the implementation of policies and procedures of the wider Essex Highways management systems e.g. Health and Safety, Environmental, Quality, Construction Design to minimise work related injuries.
• Responsible for providing timely and accurate advice to senior leaders/members/local Councillors and the general public on all highway related matters.
• Responding to complaints to meet relevant targets and provide high-performance standards. Contribute to budgetary monitoring to deliver value for money.
• Contributing to the ordering of work and services, to enable future programmes to be delivered on time and within budget Work as part of a road safety interventions delivery team providing education and awareness raising interventions to both children and adults.
• Working closely with partners by providing public facing interventions to support agreed activities to maximise the success of enforcement and current road safety campaigns.

About You

• Full UK driving license and is willing to travel. Preparedness to drive SERP vehicles (no special licence requirements). Driving to high standards exemplifying road safety principles
• Intermediate Microsoft Office skills with willingness to develop as required, training can be provided if required. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook and online meeting platforms e.g. Zoom or MS Teams.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Willingness to work flexible hours.

At Ringway Jacobs we recognise that our people make the difference, and in order to do what we do well, particular care is taken in nurturing and investing in our people. That's why you will always be given the opportunity to utilise your expertise and develop your career.

Ringway Jacobs recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles. We therefore welcome applications from people looking for an alternative working pattern e.g. part-time hours, job share etc. Please let us know on your CV or cover letter if this is what you are looking for.

In return for your hard work you will receive:

• Sick Pay
• Opportunity to purchase up to 5 days extra leave
• A variety of discounts through our "RJ Rewards" app, including restaurants, holidays, days out etc
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme

The Company

We are Ringway Jacobs, a leading highways service provider working with local authorities across the UK. Formed in 2005, specifically to provide road network management solutions to local government, our unique blend of engineering capability, innovation and customer care make us the best in class. We support over 10,000 miles of highways, 10,000 miles of footway, almost 7,800 miles of public rights of way and 242,000 street lights. We excel in delivering safe, sustainable service excellence, through our passion, integrity and collaborative culture.

Ringway Jacobs is an equal opportunities employer. We wish to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all our employees. As part of this commitment, we proudly support the Armed Forces Community by identifying roles for which we can offer a guaranteed interview to service leavers, veterans, reservists, cadet force adult volunteers, and military spouses/partners who meet the essential criteria for the position.