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Location

Chelmsford, Essex | United Kingdom

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Job description

Join Essex Highways, where you'll play a pivotal role in managing and enhancing one of the nation's most extensive highway networks, encompassing 5,000 miles of roads and footways.
As a Highways Inspector, you'll contribute to the safety, sustainability, and efficiency of our highway network through regular Monthly, Quarterly, and Annual inspections. Your responsibility will involve identifying defects in alignment with our maintenance strategy's investigatory levels. Utilising cutting-edge mobile capture devices, you'll assess and log identified issues, ensuring the continual improvement of our infrastructure. Join us in shaping the future of a dynamic and vital transportation system.

The Role

• Thorough Inspections: Conduct inspections to assess and document the condition of the public highway, ensuring it adheres to the Highways Authority's standards.
• Efficient Defect Management: Utilize data capture devices to promptly identify and report defects. Facilitate effective planning and prioritization of work by delivery teams and utilities, aligning with Essex County Council policies.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Provide expert advice, guidance, and information to stakeholders, partners, and customers. Responsively address complaints, offering clear guidance even when no immediate action is required.
• Accident Site Management: Identify accident claim sites, ensuring works comply with safety specifications. Prepare documentation and, when necessary, attend court hearings as a professional witness, contributing to informed resolutions.
• Target-Driven Performance: Work towards individual and shared targets and objectives outlined annually within the performance management framework.
• Flexibility in Duties: Fulfill other ad-hoc duties essential to meet the requirements of the role, showcasing adaptability and dedication.
• Educated to RQF Level 3 (A Level) or equivalent by experience. A City and Guilds qualification relevant to highway engineering or ONC or equivalent, is desirable.
• Knowledge of Highway Authority and Local Government policies, practices and procedures in relation to highways maintenance, including Health and Safety Legislation as it affects works on the highway including Construction, Design and Management Regulations and traffic management
• Provide practical advice and solutions to problems and ensure that tasks are followed through, loose ends are tied up and the job is completed.
• Be persistent in problem solving, seeking solutions through the expertise of both self and others, researching the facts with care and resolving problems in a timely and thorough manner.
• Give support and care in terms of both practical advice and action in areas where competence, knowledge and experience are needed.
• Develop competences and expertise in both self and others in order to gain a satisfactory standard and deliver results within agreed timescales.

At Ringway Jacobs we recognise that our people make the difference, and in order to do what we do well, particular care is taken in nurturing and investing in our people. That’s why you will always be given the opportunity to utilise your expertise and develop your career.

Ringway Jacobs recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles. We therefore welcome applications from people looking for an alternative working pattern e.g. part-time hours, job share etc. Please let us know on your CV or cover letter if this is what you are looking for.

In return for your hard work you will receive:
- Sick Pay
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to purchase up to 5 days extra leave
- A variety of discounts through our “RJ Rewards” app, including restaurants, holidays, days out etc
- Life Assurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension scheme

The Company

We are Ringway Jacobs, a leading highways service provider working with local authorities across the UK. Formed in 2005, specifically to provide road network management solutions to local government, our unique blend of engineering capability, innovation and customer care make us the best in class. We support over 10,000 miles of highways, 10,000 miles of footway, almost 7,800 miles of public rights of way and 242,000 street lights. We excel in delivering safe, sustainable service excellence, through our passion, integrity and collaborative culture.

Ringway Jacobs is an equal opportunities employer. We wish to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all our employees.

If you require further details, please contact our Recruitment Team on 0330 311 2502 or e-mail them on [email protected] , or click on the “Apply Now” button. This will take you to a login page, where you will need to create an account to continue your application. Once you have created an account you will be able to see where your application is up to and apply for other opportunities within Ringway Jacobs.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.

We have a dedicated recruitment team and politely request that agencies refrain from contacting anyone across our businesses with regards to speculative CV’s or offering to assist with our vacancies, thank you.

Benefits

At Ringway Jacobs we recognise that our people make the difference, and in order to do what we do well, particular care is taken in nurturing and investing in our people. That’s why you will always be given the opportunity to utilise your expertise and develop your career.

Ringway Jacobs recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles. We therefore welcome applications from people looking for an alternative working pattern e.g. part-time hours, job share etc. Please let us know on your CV or cover letter if this is what you are looking for.

In return for your hard work you will receive:
- Sick Pay
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to purchase up to 5 days extra leave
- A variety of discounts through our “RJ Rewards” app, including restaurants, holidays, days out etc
- Life Assurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension scheme

The Company

We are Ringway Jacobs, a leading highways service provider working with local authorities across the UK. Formed in 2005, specifically to provide road network management solutions to local government, our unique blend of engineering capability, innovation and customer care make us the best in class. We support over 10,000 miles of highways, 10,000 miles of footway, almost 7,800 miles of public rights of way and 242,000 street lights. We excel in delivering safe, sustainable service excellence, through our passion, integrity and collaborative culture.

Ringway Jacobs is an equal opportunities employer. We wish to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all our employees.

If you require further details, please contact our Recruitment Team on 0330 311 2502 or e-mail them on [email protected] , or click on the “Apply Now” button. This will take you to a login page, where you will need to create an account to continue your application. Once you have created an account you will be able to see where your application is up to and apply for other opportunities within Ringway Jacobs.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.

We have a dedicated recruitment team and politely request that agencies refrain from contacting anyone across our businesses with regards to speculative CV’s or offering to assist with our vacancies, thank you.
Please click on the following link for more information on this role: Job Description #J-18808-Ljbffr

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