Asset Officer - Highways

Cambridgeshire County Council; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 47,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing package

Additional annual leave (salary-sacr.'

Flexible bank holidays

Additional Voluntary Contributions (AV

Development opportunities

Paid volunteering hours

IDEAL peer support groups

Employee Recognition Awards

Our Cambs Rewards discounts

Car Lease & Cycle to Work schemes

Job summary

Cambridgeshire County Council is seeking an Asset Officer to maintain and improve highways assets, including roads, footways and drainage. You will contribute to smart, evidence-based investment decisions and delivery of preventative maintenance schemes.

You will work with contractors, communities and internal teams to ensure safe, resilient highway infrastructure for residents across Cambridgeshire.

Qualifications

• A Levels, NVQ Level 3 or equivalent.
• HND (or equivalent) in Civil Engineering, Highways, Construction or a related discipline.
• Experience of customer or community engagement.
• Knowledge of sustainable highway practices and infrastructure maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Inspect highways and identify maintenance needs.
• Investigate highway issues and undertake site visits across the county.
• Use asset management principles and data to prioritise investment.
• Work with contractors to scope, order and manage maintenance works.
• Plan and coordinate works programmes to minimise disruption.
• Support preventative maintenance programmes delivering long-term value.
• Engage with local communities, parish councils and stakeholders.
• Keep residents informed about planned works and improvements.

Skills

Communication

Organisational skills

Problem solving

Independence

Stakeholders

Education

A Levels, NVQ Level 3 or equivalent

HND in Civil Engineering/Highways/Construction

Job description

Are you passionate about improving local communities? Do you enjoy solving problems, working outdoors, and seeing the real-world impact of your work?

At Cambridgeshire County Council, we're looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Asset Officer to help shape the future of our highway network and deliver improvements that matter to residents every day. As an Asset Officer, you'll play a key role in maintaining and improving roads, footways, cycleways, drainage systems and other highway assets that keep Cambridgeshire connected.

Make a Difference Every Day

This is a role where no two days are the same.

One day you could be inspecting roads and identifying future maintenance needs. The next, you'll be working with contractors to deliver improvement schemes, engaging with local communities, or using data to help determine where investment should be focused. You'll be helping ensure that Cambridgeshire's highway network remains safe, resilient, and fit for the future.

If you're looking for a career where you can combine technical knowledge, community engagement and practical problem-solving, this could be the opportunity for you.

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.

What will you be doing?

As an Asset Officer, you'll be responsible for supporting the planning and delivery of preventative highway maintenance programmes while helping the Council make smart, evidence-based investment decisions.

• Inspecting highways and identifying maintenance needs.
• Investigating highway issues and undertaking site visits across the county.
• Using asset management principles and condition data to help prioritise investment.
• Working closely with contractors to scope, order and manage maintenance works.
• Planning and coordinating works programmes to minimise disruption.
• Supporting preventative maintenance programmes that deliver long-term value.
• Working with local communities, parish councils and stakeholders to understand local priorities.
• Keeping residents and stakeholders informed about planned works and improvements.

About you

We're interested in people who are curious, proactive and passionate about making a positive contribution to local communities.

You might already work in highways, civil engineering, construction, infrastructure, utilities or asset management. Equally, you may be looking to progress your career and bring transferable skills from a related environment.

You’ll Bring

• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and a practical approach to finding solutions.
• The confidence to work independently and manage competing priorities.
• Experience within highways, construction, infrastructure or a related field.
• An understanding of highway maintenance, construction or engineering principles.
• The ability to build positive relationships with colleagues, contractors and communities.

Essential Qualifications

• A Levels, NVQ Level 3 or equivalent.
• HND (or equivalent) in Civil Engineering, Highways, Construction or a related discipline.
• Experience of customer or community engagement.
• Knowledge of sustainable highway practices and infrastructure maintenance.

Desirable

• Street Works Supervisor accreditation (NRSWA).
• Experience of customer or community engagement.
• Knowledge of sustainable highway practices and infrastructure maintenance.

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

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Asset Officer - Highways

Company: Cambridgeshire County Council

Salary: £35,570 to £37,563 a year

Hours: Full-time

Location: Huntingdon, PE28 4YE

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 22 Oct 2026

Closing date: 15 Nov 2026