Highways Inspector

**About the role**
Do you want to work for a company that will support you to grow and progress in your career? Where you feel like you belong? This might be the opportunity you have been looking for.

**What you'll be doing**
- Carry out network inspections to identify defects and create work orders.
- Carry out site audits, field and network safety inspections.
- Provide routine and specialist surveys, including night lighting patrols.
- Supervise works undertaken by the workforce and subcontractors.
- Provide assistance with the production of road traffic orders.
- Be part of the rota for an out of hours duty officer for winter maintenance and emergency response.
- Maintain road space requirements and Network Occupancy requirements.
- Manage abnormal loads.
- Deputise for the Route Manager when required.
- Assist with the production of a carbon calculator and environmental KPIs.

**Who we're looking for**
- Good communication skills
- **Full driving licence **(essential)**:

- Awareness of highway contracts & works (desirable)
- CSCS, CITB (desirable)
- Willing to work unsociable hours when required.

**Why work for us**
- An attractive / negotiated salary
- 37.5 hours per week
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Pension Scheme
- A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, exclusive offers etc)
- Refer a friend bonus scheme
- Discretionary annual salary reviews
- Role specific training: Winter Maintenance Decision Maker & Road Space Bookings

**About us**

Our **Highways Business Unit** maintain, manage, and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live, work and play.
We provide high quality asset strategy, management, and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We also provide specialist, reliable, sustainable, and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK.

We create safe, flexible, and dynamic public spaces. We are right at the heart of a vital place-shaping agenda that brings together local authorities, local communities, central government, and the private sector.
The essential work is to keep daily life moving

**The Balfour Beatty DBFO** projects are three highway maintenance projects based at Leeds, Derby and Exeter covering the following routes M1 A1 A50 A30/35

We deliver routine cyclic and winter maintenance, keeping our roads safe and running and deliver over a hundred renewal and repair schemes per year.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Job Reference: BBUK07775