What is the job role?
Help keep Coventry’s roads safe, efficient, and moving.
Join our Highways team and play a key role in improving the safety and performance of the city’s highway network. You’ll support traffic management, accident investigation, road safety schemes and the delivery of essential improvements across Coventry.
What you’ll be doing:
1. Respond to enquiries from councillors, MPs, residents and partners
2. Help design and implement traffic and road‑safety solutions
3. Support accident data analysis and safety improvement schemes
4. Assist with Traffic Regulation Orders and highway inspections
5. Help manage MVAS speed‑compliance sites
6. Work with colleagues to keep the network safe, efficient and compliant
7. Contribute to community engagement and customer‑focused service delivery
If you’re motivated, detail‑driven and passionate about safer streets, this is a great opportunity to develop your skills and make a real impact.
All candidates must have the Right to Work in the UK. We are currently not offering sponsorship for this role.
Who are we looking for?
We’re looking for someone who can help keep Coventry’s highway network safe, efficient and well‑managed. To thrive in this post, you’ll bring a blend of technical knowledge, practical skills and strong people skills.
To be successful in this post, you will need:
8. Knowledge of how street works coordination, inspections and reinstatement standards support a safe, efficient highway
9. Temporary traffic management requirements, including signing, lighting and guarding (Safety at Street Works & Road Works Code of Practice)
10. Key highway legislation such as the New Roads and Street Works Act and the Traffic Management Act
11. Working effectively with colleagues and external organisations
12. Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation abilities
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Guaranteed Interview Scheme - As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:
13. Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
14. Are currently in care or have previously been in care
15. If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
For full details on the application process please read the attached document labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.
About Coventry
Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.
We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.
At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.
To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.