Permit Inspector, East Sussex Highways

**Your Impact**:
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

**About the Opportunity**

As a Permit Inspector on our East Sussex Highways contract you will work within the Network Management Team whose objective is to ensure that all work activities carried in the public highway are undertaken in compliance with the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (NRSWA), the Traffic Management Act 2004 (TMA), the East Sussex Permit Scheme, Street-Manager and national guidance and Codes of Practice. The Network compliance team undertake inspections on works, to ensure compliance with permit conditions, SROH and other legislative requirements

Your key tasks and accountabilities will include:

- To carry out the inspection and monitoring of works to ensure that they are being undertaken safely and in accordance with the current requirements namely the NRSWA 1991, SROH and the safety at Street-works and roadworks code of practice.
- Understand the East Sussex permit scheme and national permit conditions to ensure effective inspections are undertaken.
- Liaise with Network coordinators to monitor in progress works and report on site activities and attendance to minimise traffic disruption and reduce permit durations.
- To assist in the investigation and report on complaints received in respect of work being undertaken by others on the highway, acting as appropriate and producing reports on findings/actions.
- Act in accordance with legislative requirements when a danger to highway users exists due to defective signing, lighting, and guiding and defective Utility frames and covers.
- Ensure that all utility companies are working in a safe manner, monitoring active sites, and inspecting reinstatements to ensure they have been completed to the required specifications.
- If required attend meetings with local councillors, residents, and other stakeholders with a positive and professional approach.
- Represent Network Management at meetings to contribute appropriately with research, analysis and reporting of information, and if required briefing senior staff on issues.
- Research customer enquiries and provide accurate and timely information, advice and guidance to internal and external customers.
- Maintain and process paper and ICT based systems and records for the coordination of road works using appropriate ICT systems as required under the NRSWA and TMA for a designated service area.

**Here’s What You’ll Need**:

- Experience working in inspection/operational Highway environment
- Excellent customer service, observational and organisation skills
- Understanding of a Permit Scheme
- Any knowledge of relevant legislation including Highways Act 1980, New Roads and Street Works Act (NRSWA) 1991, Traffic Management Act 2004,SROH V4 would be valuable but training will also ge given
- Basic knowledge of highway maintenance techniques and procedures

**Our Culture**

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s - find out more about our employee networks here.