Highways Inspector

**About The Role**:
**Working Hours**: 17.5 Hours per week

**Contract Type**: Part-Time, Permanent

**Closing Date**:04 June 2024

**Essential Car Documentation**:

- This post is a designated Essential Car User. Therefore, you must always hold a full valid driving licence and provide your own car for use at work. You will receive the Essential Car User Allowance.

The role holder will act as a member of a team to enforce standards & regulate community activity in order to provide a safe environment for Manchester residents.

Working under the guidance of the Technical Officer the Highway Inspector will support in fulfilling the necessary process and licenses are in place to enable planned and reactive works to take place in line with legislation and health and safety requirements. The post holder will need to have a keen eye for detail and be comfortable negotiating and dealing with and external internal stakeholders and contractors via the supply chain to ensure delivery of works, escalating when appropriate.

The Highways Service is responsible for the leadership, management and delivery of all Highway related activities and

functions that are involved in both management and improvement of the Highways network across Manchester. The

scale and ambition of the work planned in the city over the next few years, to deliver both the Greater Manchester Transport Strategy 2040 and National Transport Strategies, is huge. It will provide excellent opportunities for career development to the full range of professionals who support our schemes, across the full range of professional disciplines

The Network Management Team is responsible for Asset Management, acts as the Highway Authority, keeping the city moving and maintenance of the highway and contract management via the following functions - Client Officer and Policy Development, Development Control, Traffic and Road Safety Inspections, Maintenance and Contract Management and Maintenance.

The role holder will have an understanding and awareness of core regulatory activities including the implementation,

inspection, enforcement and review of statutory regulations, legislation and national guidelines.

The role holder will be responsible for advising the public and external stakeholders on compliance and regulatory processes.

The role holder will provide high quality, customer focused, flexible and timely support thereby contributing to the

achievement of objectives of a high-quality service.

skills.

**About Us**:
We’re the local government authority for Manchester, and have teams across the city helping to make this a great place to live for everyone. We’re proud to do local government differently, in a city with an international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion.

When you join us, you’re joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality. Whatever your role, you’ll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and helping to build a Manchester that's fairer for everyone who lives, works, volunteers, studies or plays here.

To make our ambition a reality, every person we recruit needs to play their its part. It takes a certain type of behaviour, attitude and way of working to get Manchester where it wants to be. Our people and partners have agreed five ‘behaviours’ - the grounding for how we must work together and treat one another:

- We take time to listen and understand
- We work together and trust each other
- We show that we value our differences and treat each other fairly
- We ‘own it’ and we’re not afraid to try new things
- We’re proud and passionate about Manchester

A career with us means you can be yourself, thrive, and build the career your talent and ambition deserve.

**Creating an inclusive team at Manchester City Council**

**Guaranteed Interview Scheme**

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

**Accessibility**

As a Disability Confident Employer, we provide support for employees with physical or mental-health conditions, a disability or neurodiversity. Our workplaces are accessible by design, and we make workplace adjustments including providing aids, adaptations and equipment. These, combined with our flexible working policies such as disability-related leave, enable our employees to perform their role, thrive and be their authentic selves in work.

**When you join us**

We want everyone to be able to be themselves at work and give their best. If you need additional support to undertake the duties of the role, we’ll make every effort to source any necessary