Locality Designer

2 weeks ago


Norwich, United Kingdom Norfolk County Council Full time

**Permanent Contract | 37 hours per week | £27,344 to £29,439 per annum (Grade G) | Norwich**

We are looking for an experienced, organised and self-motivated individual to join our Highways Maintenance team based in Norwich. You should be knowledgeable in highway maintenance, construction or other related engineering environment.

The Highway Area teams are responsible for the client highway maintenance and streetworks functions for the County Council as highway authority. Key services include highway inspection and scheme identification, member and public interface, and supervision of all works affecting the public highway.

The Locality Designer provides technical support and design services working on small scale, locally important improvements.

We are looking for an organised and self-motivated person to join our highways maintenance team based in Norwich. You will need to have experience of highway design techniques, working in highway maintenance, construction or other engineering environment. This is a great opportunity to consolidate your highway engineering and maintenance knowledge and experience through a busy and challenging role in a highway area team. You will assist in developing solutions to maintenance problems and the provision of safe and efficient technical highway / civil engineering design and project delivery in a supporting role. This will enable the area team to deliver its programme of maintenance and improvement schemes.

You will play an important role as a member of the Highways area office team working with Norse and Tarmac in the delivery of the service. You will assist the area engineers to assess and design a range of highway related schemes including structural maintenance schemes,, local member and parish partnership to match agreed budget, resource and organisational requirements. You will ensure that schemes are ordered and implemented to agreed standards, procedures, specification, programme, legislation, time and budget.

The main duties involve providing technical support and design services for the Highway Engineers and area sector teams, designing and developing solutions to highway problems, and producing design documentation for highway schemes.

You will need to possess excellent communication skills in order to deliver high quality customer service as well as deal effectively with contractors and utility companies on site. You will be involved a wide range of highway maintenance and network management matters, supporting the Highway Engineer in developing solutions, supervising works, and providing first line responses to customer enquiries.

You will need to have:

- Experience of working in a highway maintenance and/or construction environment. (Essential)
- Experience of dealing directly with members of the public (Essential)
- Excellent communication and customer care skills
- Organised and methodical approach
- Self-motivated and able to prioritise workload effectively
- An understanding and knowledge of Health and Safety
- An understanding and knowledge of works ordering Inc. method of measurement Able to use own initiative, be flexible, multi-task over a range of activities and be able to work as part of a team.

We want our people to be inspired and motivated to work well together, make the most of our workspaces, enjoy a healthy work-life balance, and deliver excellent services to Norfolk and its people. Flexibility is built into the way we work, with hybrid working a key feature for many roles. Our technology platform and equipment are first class, enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have in place good Broadband connectivity.

**Job description and person specification
You can also find out about the rewards and benefits we offer as well as our other terms and conditions.

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

- Competitive salary
- Generous holiday entitlement with the ability to buy and sell leave
- Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
- Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working - dependent on your job role and business need.
- Financial benefits such as:

- ‘ Norfolk Rewards’ our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
- A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
- Relocation expenses paid upfront (where applicable)
- An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
- Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants’ pensions.
- A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job.
- Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension, new bikes and electric cars.

**Closing date: 31 July 2023**

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