Overview
Do you have an inspection background in highways or a related area and looking for a new challenge? Do you enjoy being out on site but would like a regular daytime working pattern and more freedom to manage your own workload? 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 providing feedback 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. There is also a requirement which may involve working unsociable hours, including nights, to respond to incidents. Please note that you will be required to drive as part of your role, and you will need to have no more than 3 points to be considered for this position and during employment. Ideally you should live within an hour's commute from the Depot.
Responsibilities
* Carrying out regular driven Safety Inspections, reporting and raise work requests for high priority safety defects
* 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.g. defects and causes)
* 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
* Prioritising health, safety and wellbeing needs of customers and colleagues in all activities
Qualifications and experience
* 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
* Ability to manage own workload whilst working as part of a team
About National Highways and working at NH
Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.
Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads. We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.
Benefits and employment terms
* External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy
* Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
* Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
* Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working
* Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
* Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders; access to a wellbeing app, occupational health service and flu vaccines
* A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
* Significant investment in your career development through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on‑the‑job experience
* Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave; plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days p.a.)
* Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure and holidays, plus a financial wellbeing programme
* Community friendly – offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year
If you are successful, all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include: Right to work check, 3 year employment history references, DBS criminal record check, social media and adverse journalism check, driving licence check (if applicable), fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable), and qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable).
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