Highway Area Surveyor

Are you a problem solver and enjoy working with a wide variety of people?

Do you have the motivation to proactively manage your own area of Warwickshire's road network?

Have you ever wondered how Historic Shakespeare's County road networks are managed - to patch or not to patch?

About the Team

County Highway's Client Services Team is charged with the routine maintenance of the highway network in Warwickshire as well as dealing with all enquiries from the public and other stakeholders, licencing and legal enforcement of the Highways Act 1980, winter maintenance activities, Councillor delegated budget schemes and contributing to forward programmes of larger structural maintenance works.?

About the Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the role of Highway Area Surveyor, to work in the highway maintenance arena.?Warwickshire is really proud of its Highways Team and their passion, commitment and all the hard work that goes into getting the highest possible rating for our highways service. With continuing investment into Warwickshire's highway network, we aim to ensure that our roads and footpaths are fit for future generations and continue to score highly in national surveys.?

The Highway Area Surveyor role is a fantastic opportunity for self-starters with experience in Highways and Traffic Management and knowledge of current legislation relating to Highways Act 1980.

In this role as a Highway Area Surveyor you would be part of the South Area Client Team, based at Budbrooke. You will be responsible for a geographical area in the County, within which you will be dealing with all routine highways related matters and making responses to all customer contacts within your area, including dealing with our Winter service and Out of Hours emergencies on a rota basis. The Emergency Rotas are subject to additional standby payments plus additional hours worked, on top of the base salary.

You would also be responsible for determining many different programmes of highway maintenance work, managing demand from members of the Public, Elected Member and Parish Councils. Managing Highway regulation and providing customer service, to ensure Warwickshire meets its obligations under the Highways Act and other relevant legislation.

An understanding of or experience with current highway maintenance best practices would be an advantage, as would familiarity with Highways Act 1980, TMA (2004), NRSWA (1991) winter service experience and knowledge of Microsoft Office applications., The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.

Working for Warwickshire - This is the difference you make

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels?valued, included, safe, supported,?and?welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!?

At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire's economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.

Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage - Warwickshire Pension Fund'

The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.