Highways Inspector

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Highways Inspector
**Location - Windsor/Berkshire**

**Salary - £40,000 per annum**

As a Highways Inspector you'll be:

- Working within the inspection team and working with the operational delivery team to ensure safety inspections, defects and other works are completed on time and to specification. To ensure all relevant customer enquiries are dealt with effectively.
- To ensure that all works are conducted in line with the Legal and Company Health and Safety procedures.
- To assist in the review of safety inspection routes and ensure resources are assigned and optimised to meet the inspection regime and specification set out
- To undertake the routine safety inspection of the highway, street furniture, signs and other highway assets as per the agreed inspection regimes and to ensure inspectors record safety and service defects
- Ensure completion of ad hoc inspection of carparks and other assets as may be required from time to time including liaising with customers regarding enquiries.
- Liaise with residents and other contacts including parishes, Customer Contact Centre and members etc with regards to customer contacts; offering solution and or guidance to various enquiries received in a timely manner, as may be required from time to time.
- To provide engineering knowledge and assistance to other members of the team and service, the Council and members of the public
- Problem solving and arranging corrective action in relation to all basic safety maintenance of the highway’s infrastructure
- Ensure all utility defects are made safe, reported and dealt with in a timely manner.
- To be responsible for the economic, efficient and effective provision of Highway services and statutory obligations in accordance with the term service contract
- To routinely inspect the highways per the agreed inspection regimes, defined within WHIP for the roads within the borough.
- Carry out regular inspections of the adopted highway network and other highway land and assets to identify defects, commission feasibility reports and determine appropriate remedial works.
- Keep records of highway inspections using computerised systems, updating as necessary.
- Issue initial warning notification of enforcement issues related to by developers, Utility companies, residents and other third parties.

**Highway Inspector Key Competencies
- Highway asset protection, New Roads and Street Works Act, Highways Act
- Technical understanding and Knowledge of Highway Law, Health and safety regulations and codes of good practice, CDM, etc.
- Computer Literate with knowledge, New Roads and Street Works Act, Highways Act and Asset Management systems
- Current driving licence
- Experience/knowledge in the planning of a street works site relating to signing, lighting, guarding and site safety.
- “VGC Personnel are acting as a recruitment agency in relation to this vacancy”_