Highways Maintenance & Inspection Officer

Job description

We are currently looking for a Highways Maintenance & Inspection Officer. You will be working in Cambridgeshire

Monday - Friday

9am - 5pm

Temp Contract - Ongoing

Day rate: £250 per day umbrella

Job Purpose

To oversee and manage highway maintenance works to ensure that the highway network is managed and maintained to a safe standard for the benefit of our communities. By implementing reactive, preventative, and cyclical maintenance schemes, the Highway Maintenance Officer will contribute to the effective management of Cambridgeshire’s highway network, inclusive of footways, cycle routes, carriageways, and public rights of way.

Main Duties

• Inspect the highway network on a routine basis for the purpose of identifying faults in need of repair or informing planned and cyclical maintenance activities. Document findings, observations, and actions in a structured and consistent manner. Ensure that the County fulfils its statutory duties to safely maintain the highway network.
• Respond to reported faults on the highway network to conduct on site investigations or conduct investigations in preparation for cyclical maintenance activities. This will be undertaken in isolation or with assistance from our contractors when intrusive investigation is needed.
• Placing of orders includes scoping of the works, establishing costs from activity schedules, consideration for traffic management and negotiation with our contractor. Once works are ordered their progress will need to be reviewed through to completion.

Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices. 4Recruitment Services is an equal opportunities employer.

To discuss this vacancy, please apply to the job with your updated CV

Reference 225628475