Location: Maidstone, Kent
Salary: £30,200 - £32,800
About the job.
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.
This role may involve working unsociable hours, including nights.
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 our Farthing Corner Depot M2.
* 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
About you.
* 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 us.
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.
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.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
About Us
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.
A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.
Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.
Our benefits package
* 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 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. 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
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)
* Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)
And finally
We reserve the right to close before the advertisement expires
Salary description
£30200.00 - £32800.00 per year