Highway Inspector

**What's involved with this role:
**Interim Highway Inspector - Highways**

**Reference no: Surrey TCL 87815**

**Pay rate: £24.00 per hour PAYE**

**Hours per week: 35-37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours**

**This opening assignment is for 2 months**

**City: REIGATE**

Your main duties include inspecting the work carried out by utility & highways contractors, reporting any issues on the highway and ensuring all works are compliant with the legislation. Further duties include section 81 inspections, customer complaints resolutions, core sampling and defect inspection.

Key Responsibilities
- Carrying out highway safety inspections across the area
- Reporting and recording any issues back to the office
- Ensuring all works are compliant with the legislation
- Monitoring the works & ensuring they are carried out to a high standard
- Undertake driven, walked or cycled inspections
- Receive, prioritise, investigate and answer queries relating to the service including enforcement actions
- Represent the council in respect of claims against the authority including attending court
- Manage your individual workload to ensure required inspections and enquiries are completed within the relevant timescales.

**To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF**

**If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.**

Other “Essential Requirements” - Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:

- Hold or be willing to train to acquire relevant accreditation - Highway Safety Inspectors Training (IHE approved syllabus), NRSWA Supervisors card and LANTRA 12D (M7)
- Full clean UK driving licence.

Knowledge:

- Working knowledge of Microsoft including Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Teams, SharePoint and safety inspection systems such as CONFIRM.
- Awareness of relevant legislation and codes of practice such as Highways Act 1980 and Well Managed Highway Infrastructure

**Experience**:

- Previous experience of highway maintenance on undertaking safety inspections.
- Previous experience in Highways and Streetworks

Skills & Abilities:

- Possess excellent inter-personal and customer service skills,
- Be able to deal with a range of issues and conflicting demands whilst adhering to relevant legislation
- Be able to deliver to tight deadlines and keeping calm under pressure.

ALD

**Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please