Your New Role
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. There is a requirement to be on call once in every 6-7 weeks, which may involve working unsociable hours to respond to incidents. An on-call uplift payment is included within the basic salary.
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.
What You’ll Be Leading On:
- 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 in all activities
To Be Successful:
- 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
A bit about us
Making sure our customers have safe and reliable journeys is at the heart of everything we do in Operations. 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.
Want to know more?
To request a copy of the role profile, please contact hrhighwaysengland@mailgc.cx.ukg.oraclecloud.com quoting reference number #5170
Why you should join us
At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.
So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it – then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.
- Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
- 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 blended working between base location/home
- 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. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, 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 job experience
And we are
- 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 pa), eg for caring responsibilities
- Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
- Community friendly – offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort
If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our 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)
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