Clerk of Works

Role Responsibility

Kent County Council (KCC) maintains 8,700km (5,400 miles) of highway network and associated “assets”.

This role is a newly introduced post within the Road and Footway Asset team.  The Clerk of works will become an essential part of the team and will provide support to our engineers by being our site representative for our programmed works schemes.

The role of the Clerk of Works will assist the Road and Footway Asset Team Engineers  in delivering both asset renewal and asset protection programmes of work.  Whilst the role will predominantly be assisting in the footway asset team, there may be occasions that you would be required to assist with our carriageway works programmes also.

For the role to be a success it will be necessary for the Clerk of Works to be an involved with all stages of our scheme work, from the pre-construction early contractor involvement meetings, the construction phase and completion walkthroughs.

As an extension of the engineers role, it is extremely important that the Clerk of Works forms good working relationship with all of our engineers to ensure the critical two-way communication and regular contact that will ensure that works are carried out to the expected quality, to the correct specification and that works are carried out in the safest manner.  

The Clerk of works will be required to keep a good standard of site records, mainly in the form of a comprehensive site diary.  This will be essential to ensure final measure quantities are correct, and the final cost applications consider any differences from the original design whether that be negative or positive adjustments.

If you can prioritise and organise your own workload and be a team player, work to tight deadlines, be methodical in your approach and have excellent customer service skills then this is the post for you.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Contact Details

For further information regarding this role, please contact:

Neil Tree - neil.tree@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.