Highways Assurance Officer

**About the role**
Amazing infrastructure isn’t the only thing that gets built here. Incredible careers do too. Join our **Living Places** team as a **Highways Assurance Officer** and you can build something to be proud of.

Required to work across various areas of the Southampton HSP contract focussing on Network Assurance, utilising comprehensive knowledge and experience to ensure that green claims are managed sufficiently, relevant income streams are monitored and received, network updates are revised, amended accordingly and communicated to the inspectors and improvement projects are implemented.

**What you'll be doing**
As a **Highways Assurance Officer**, you will have the following accountabilities:

- Develop and improve current processes/systems and implement innovative ideas
- Collect required information for Green Claims and recoverable costs
- Ensure end to end process for Traffic Signal switch offs and disabled bays is managed sufficiently
- Select and undertake appropriate work methods to ensure the work is completed right first time
- Compliance with all statutory and company procedures across all the functions, specifically H & S
- Responding to customer enquiries and liaison with Highways Inspectors
- Updating safety inspections following any changes to the network
- Commercial awareness and understanding of budgets
- To establish and build positive customer relationships, with a range of different stakeholders, including Senior Management, and third-party organisations.

**Who we're looking for**
You will have the following:

- Health and Safety first
- Adaptable to changing situations
- Management skills
- Organised and able to prioritise work
- Good Communication skills
- Organised and efficient
- Liaising with internal and external key stakeholders
- Good IT skills including the use of Microsoft Office
- Familiar with systems such as Confirm, Streets Manager, KaarbonTech, Bridgestation and Oracle R12.

**Why work for us**
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

**About us**
The way we live our lives is changing fast: where and how we live, work, travel, shop, relax and socialise. The evolving nature of our society means we all need to shape our environment to meet a complex array of individual and collective needs.

Living Places works in partnership with Local Authorities to consult, finance, design, build and manage the essential place infrastructure that local communities and national economies need to prosper and grow.

We are right at the heart of a dynamic place shaping agenda that brings Local Authorities, local communities, Central Government, and the Private Sector together to create safe, sustainable, flexible and dynamic public spaces geared to community social need, economic growth and personal well-being as well as being environmentally sustainable.

The provision of maintenance services for highways is only a small part of what is really needed. Our focus has moved beyond the road to deliver the potential of the street: a dynamic public place that connects and combines local community and business needs, encourages social interaction and helps pedestrians, motorists, bus riders, and cyclists to coexist safely. Building great public spaces with resource efficient assets enables functional, flexible and inspirational places to be at the heart of the community.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Job Reference: BBUK06173