Job Description
Suffolk County Council - Rougham Service Delivery Centre, Rougham Industrial Estate, IP30 9ND - Onsite
£38,223 per annum (pro rata for part time)
37 hours per week - Flexible working options available
Permanent
We're passionate about improving the future for our customers, our communities, and the environment. If you are too, join us as a Highways Assessment Engineer and make a huge and meaningful impact. Your innovation and drive will help us to continue improving and evolving.
Your role and responsibilities:
1. Managing a team to complete regular highway safety inspections on time and to high standards, in line with SCC's statutory duty.
2. Maintaining a customer-focused approach, ensuring that both you and your team carry out ad-hoc safety inspections of the highway and update customers on all outcomes.
3. Ensuring that reactive maintenance repairs are completed in accordance with statutory duties and the term maintenance contract.
4. Taking an asset management approach when commissioning small-scale maintenance works and reporting to asset managers to prevent deterioration of highway assets.
5. Assisting in the use of AI technology to survey the condition of the highway, while helping develop new processes to enhance its effectiveness.
You will need:
1. Experience of highway maintenance materials and techniques and sound awareness of highway maintenance standards and asset management.
2. Good knowledge of relevant policy, codes of practice, design and construction standards for highway maintenance.
3. Experience in managing a team with the ability to determine appropriate priorities in the long term and a day-by-day basis to meet timescales.
4. To be able to adapt to innovation and be able to turn your hand to new techniques and technologies with a proficiency in using software systems.
Applicants will be considered who can demonstrate the appropriate skills, values, and a willingness to learn, for which training and resources will be made available to gain experience.
The team
Suffolk Highways is a collaboration between Suffolk County Council and private sector service providers, aimed at maintaining roads and delivering new highway infrastructure across Suffolk. This role is within the Highways & Assessment Team of Infrastructure Management. You will be part of a team of three, managing a 21-strong group of Highway Assessment Officers.
How to apply
1. Read the Job and Person Profile (JPP) (docx).
2. Click 'Apply Now' to start your online application.
3. Upload a supporting statement answering specific questions.
4. Upload a CV (without name and personal details).
Closing date: 11.30pm, 21 November 2024.
Interview date:W/C 25 November 2024.
This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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