Highway Management Officer - Leicester, United Kingdom - Leicester City Council

Leicester City Council
Leicester City Council
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Leicester, United Kingdom

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Description

Job details:

Job reference

  • REQ3328
Date posted

  • 11/10/2023
Application closing date

  • 19/11/2023
Location

  • Various locations across Leicester City
Salary
- £15,549 - £16,910 Per Year (pay award pending).

Package

  • Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): £23,058
Contractual hours

  • 18.5
Basis

  • Part time
Job category/type

  • Planning and Transport
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Highway Management Officer:

Job description

Part Time / 18.5 Hours Per Week / Fixed Term for 14 Months

Would you like to play a key role in ensuring public highways in Leicester are maintained and safe for all residents and visitors?

The Highways Maintenance group look after the public highway within the City.

We carry out inspections to maintain the carriageway, footway and cycleway infrastructure in a safe condition and ensure works are carried out on time, within budget, in accordance with specifications and codes of practice and to acceptable standards.


This is a fantastic opportunity for a Highway Management Officer to work join our team to undertake condition surveys and inspections of the highway assets, carrying out risk-based assessment to identify and prioritise maintenance work requirements.


This is a part-time, temporary position covering paternity leave, working 18.5 hours per week, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday one week and Thursday and Friday the next week.

Your time will be shared between the office and being on site at various locations across the city. Therefore, it is essential you have a full driving licence.


What you'll be doing


You'll inspect, assess, record, estimate and monitor works which keep public highways, pedestrian, and cycle ways infrastructure of the city in a safe condition and provides a one-stop service and ownership for local highways and street scene concerns.

By determining general maintenance work requirements and specifications for repair traffic management, safety arrangements etc, you'll issue orders for maintenance works as well as inspect and identify defective highway reinstatement works, unsafe working practices.

Using your experience of working with measuring equipment and systems, you'll provide cost estimates and quotes for highway maintenance works.

You'll carry out duties on site such as inspections, dealing with highway enquiries and will include meeting members of the public, ward councillors and council officers.


What you'll need


With previous practical experience of working in a technical environment, highway maintenance or similar, you'll also have experience of interpreting plans and maps, contract documents, measuring and valuing work.

You'll have knowledge of highways legislation & guidelines sufficient to estimate works and give advice as well as be qualified with Highway Inspector Accreditation and NRSWA Supervisor Accreditation or be willing to attain these within agreed timescale.

Using excellent communication skills, you'll be able to effectively engage with the public and others associated with highway works and street scene enforcement to deal with matters concerning programmes of works and act decisively and assertively when enforcing relevant legislation.


What we can offer you


As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance.

You'll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working.

We'll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities.

In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.


Join us
**Interview/Assessments will take place week commencing Monday 27th November 2023.
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