Highway Inspector - England, United Kingdom - Highways England

Description

National Highways is hiring a Highways Inspector to join our Operations Directorate in the Midlands.

This role will be based primarily from our Watford Gap depot but will carry out inspections on our routes and highways assets around Northamptonshire / Leicestershire or other parts of the Midlands as required.

Reporting to the Inspector Team Manager, you will work individually or with another team member to complete asset condition and safety inspections, survey works and signing off on quality of asset repairs.

Working patterns can be flexible by agreement with the team manager but contractually your working hours per week will be 37 hours.

We also provide a package formal training including NRSWA supervisor and Highway Inspector Lantra / City & Guilds courses.

You will be required to drive as part of your role and you will need to have a full clean UK driving license to be considered for this position and during employment .

Carrying out cyclical and ad-hoc driving and walking asset inspections on the network in line with agreed schedules, procedures and standards, recording all asset conditions and findings (e.
Monitoring event signage and illegal signage and escalating any issues
Supporting regional engineering teams in planning activities by collecting and sharing up to date asset condition and inspection information
Knowledge or experience of undertaking highways asset condition inspections, OR equivalent inspections experience in other sectors
Knowledge or experience of highway asset maintenance and legal aspects of highways maintenance/inspection
Good understanding of Health and Safety applicable to highway maintenance works
Good IT and data collection skills, ideally with the ability to use data capture devices

We keep the roads open for business and play a key role in making sure the network we manage is fit for purpose today and for the future.