Structures Inspector

**Your new role**

National Highways are recruiting a Structures Inspector to join our team in the Midlands Region on **an initial fixed-term contract until December 2024 **. This can be based form any of our Midlands offices such as the Cube in Birmingham or Stirling House in Nottingham.

The main responsibilities for this role are to plan and complete inspections of all types of highway structure assets, in line with agreed inspections schedules, procedures and standards, raise jobs to address defects and contribute to prioritisation and development of maintenance schemes.

**_You will be required to drive as part of your role and you will need to have a full clean driving license to be considered for this position and during employment.
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**What you’ll be leading on**
- Work with Inspection Manager to plan, deliver and report upon the cyclical and special Inspection programmes for assets is in line with agreed timescales, budgets procedures standards, guidance and industry best practice.
- Provide support to Inspection Manager by arranging roadspace and creating orders for suppliers to deliver bridge inspections, with customer focus in mind.
- Liaising with key stakeholders such as Local Authorities, Network Rail, Canal & River Trust and land owners to facilitate all types of bridge inspections.
- Producing specifications to permit the procurement of monitoring, investigation, testing and other special inspections of structures.
- Complete cyclical and special inspections of highway assets, including complex structures, identify defects, defect causes and options for remedial actions, in line with agreed timescales, procedures and standards.
- Oversee and gather data from all inspections and testing.
- Awareness of health and safety within the industry

**To be Successful**
- Working towards or Qualified to HNC/HND in Civil Engineering or Equivalent, with experience of undertaking all types of inspections including the use of NDT techniques for highway structures
- Qualified as a Inspector on the Bridge Inspector Certification Scheme (NHSS31) or working towards qualification with demonstrable evidence of the core competencies required
- Proficient in undertaking cyclical and acceptance Inspections and NDT testing techniques
- Evidence of planning/ organising all types of inspections with good stakeholder management and communication skills with strong customer focus
- Capable of recognising and categorising defects and maintenance needs of all types of highways assets
- Knowledgeable in the use of defect scoring systems and have an understanding of their use in objectively determining the condition of the asset

**A bit about us**

Making sure our customers have safe and reliable journeys is at the heart of everything we do in Operations. We keep the roads open for business and play a key role in making sure the network we manage is fit for purpose today and for the future.

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