Rights of Way Officer - Northampton, United Kingdom - Kier Group

Kier Group

Verified Company

Northampton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We're looking for a Rights of Way Officer to join our Highways 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 imagine a world without roads or bridges? Nor can we Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Highways and make a difference.

Connecting roads, connecting people.

Location:
Brixworth, Northamptonshire

Contract:
Full time, part time and flexible

Responsibilities

As Rights of Way Officer, you'll be working within the rights of way team, supporting them with community engagement activities and working with rights of way and access issues.

Your day to day will include:

Liaising with community groups, partners and dealing with customer correspondence from Parish Councils, farmers, developers and members of the public
Attending meetings with different organisations to provide advice and information
Being creative and cost focused to ensure that budgets are spent in the best way possible and for the local community to benefit from our quality service
Using your local knowledge of the area and ensuring landowners carry out their duties, enforcing the requirements when necessary.
Delivering difficult messages, whilst handing many scenarios including some that could be challenging, instructing contractors to undertake minor maintenance works

Who are we looking for?
This role of Rights of Way Officer is great for you if you can:

Drive and hold a full driving licence
Demonstrate a good understanding of health & safety with an interest in regulations around local land
Work with a range of stakeholders speak to individuals on a technical and nontechnical basis

Benefits at Kier

We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

Some of our favourites include:

New and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our sharesave and share incentive plans
Kier's Green Car Scheme
A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands

Who is Kier?

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress.

We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

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 (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

Closing date: 5 April 2023