It’s an exciting time to join our Highways Team here at Staffordshire County Council!
Our vision is to help Staffordshire’s economy grow, so that everyone has the opportunity of a good job and good prospects in a beautiful, safe, accessible, vibrant, cultural, prosperous, business-friendly, and sustainable county.
Staffordshire has great places and great connections, boasting the beautiful rural landscape of a shire county together with excellent transport links to major destinations across the country.
We are committed to fixing more roads and improving transport and digital connections and we are making significant investment into the quality of our roads. To ensure we can deliver our ambitious Highways Transformation, we are looking to grow our team of highway engineering professionals and develop talent for the future.
Although your base will be in Stafford, we have highway inspection teams working from a number of locations across the county and are able to discuss flexible working options and locations that might be applicable for this role.
Main Responsibilities
As a member of the Highways Maintenance and Network Management team you will:
* Lead the highway inspection team to fulfil the statutory duties of the highway authority to maintain the network through a programme of highway safety & tree inspections and commissioning of safety repairs.
* Ensure operational, resource and contingency plans are in place for responding to weather events and incidents.
* Ensure the team provides excellent customer service in dealing with customer enquiries, ensuring effective communication with the public.
* Lead on the development of a risk-based approach to network hierarchy, inspections and defects identified and network resilience due to weather events and incidents.
* Establish, develop and maintain relevant contacts and stakeholder relationships to enable effective regional working.
* Coach, mentor, empower and develop team members to ensure they deliver a customer-focused, modern professional service, challenging work practices as required.
The Ideal Candidate
You will have significant experience in the management and delivery of highway inspection, highway tree management and highway resilience services together with:
* A Degree in a relevant discipline e.g. Civil Engineering and/or.
* Professional qualification at Incorporated Engineer level or knowledge/experience at equivalent level.
* Experience of representing a highway authority in the defence of claims against it or action against third parties.
* Demonstrable understanding and management of customer and public interfaces.
* Leadership and team management of multi-disciplinary teams.
* Analytical skills with good attention to detail.
* Good written, verbal and digital communication skills, with the ability to pitch communications at an appropriate level to the target audience.
The interview dates for this vacancy will be Thursday 30 January and/or Friday 31 January 2025.
Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat about the role please contact David Walters, Head of Highway Maintenance & Network Management at: david.walters@staffordshire.gov.uk
Please note we reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closing date.
Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.
About Staffordshire County Council
We are no ordinary county council:
Our Values:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.
Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.
We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.
Our benefits:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire
Our recruitment process:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities.
As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
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