Highways Maintenance Technician

**How you'll make a difference**:
As a Highways Maintenance Technician your focus will be on the development of carriageway, footway, cycleways and all highways and open space assets to ensure the people that live and work here are able to travel across South Gloucestershire safely and efficiently.

**What will you be doing?**
- In the role you will provide project briefs to the Design and Operations team and technical specifications for works to specialist maintenance contractors and provide regular feedback to customers and internal departments.
- Attending sites, you will assess the condition and any associated risks, gather and review data and analysis to assess any problems. It will be your responsibility to make decisions about technical issues, making recommendations and clear options within professional legislation and codes of practice.
- You will ensure that data from condition surveys, scrim surveys and other sources are assessed and rated, and prioritise and reorganise programmes in line with changing financial restraints.
- Working with with colleagues and other organisations, you will provide and receive information, support and guidance and liaise with customers, partners and external contacts to keep them informed about specific situations.
- Keeping records up to date on software packages is essential, as you will be responsible for ensuring the asset register data base is current and accurate.

**What we need from you**:

- You must hold a degree level or equivalent qualification in civil engineering or have have experience in a variety of highway maintenance processes, able to use systems and process to construct, monitor and maintain programmes of work through a priority matrix, against a monitored budget.
- We require you to be able to demonstrate highway related knowledge regarding best practice of maintenance design principles and process and have an understanding of asset management principles and life cycle planning.
- You will be confident to communicate programmes of work, anticipated budget spend profiles and site constraints to operations teams, as well as explaining priority sites to interested parties and make decisions relating to changing circumstances.
- You must be experience in dealing with measurement, valuation and estimating of scheme costs, together with the ability to transfer these to IT mediums for effective communication and analysis.
- It is essential that you are confident in the use of various software packages including Microsoft office, data bases and mapping systems.
- You must hold a full UK Driving Licence or able to travel to various locations across South Glos.

**How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different**:
We trust our team to work in the way which allows them to make the biggest difference and we continue to **invest in technology** to help staff do their jobs to the best of their ability and **celebrate innovation**.

We invest in the careers of our people and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our **training and development** offer, which helps our people make the greatest long-term difference in their work.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of
- We're planning for the future; building and improving the roads, railways, schools, green spaces, and houses. We’re providing essential services across our communities to ensure they are safe and well maintained.

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

**We’re making a difference, be part of it