Highway Safety Inspector & Highway Steward

Role Responsibility

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

Our roads, footways, street lights, street furniture, traffic signals, gullies and drains, trees, grass verges, signs, road markings, bridges and other structures are all different types of highway assets. These assets help to ensure that journeys around and through the county are safe and reliable.

As one of Kent’s Highways Inspector’s you will play a key role in Kent County Council’s management of a safe highway network.  You will be part of a countywide team of inspectors tasked with the identification of all defects likely to create danger or serious inconvenience to users of the network or the wider community. You will need to demonstrate the ability to use a risk-based approach and provide a practical and reasonable evaluation of the risks and potential consequences identified taking into account all highway users and in particular the most vulnerable.

Kent’s Highways Inspectors undertake scheduled walked and driven inspections of roads, footways and cycle tracks.

As one of Kent’s Highway Safety Inspector’s or Stewards you will be using the latest mobile technology; you will ensure accurate and timely recording of inspections and demonstrate attention to detail when raising job orders to ensure the safety of work crews and the travelling public. A New Roads and Street works qualification is required as a minimum (training can be provided).

The Highway Stewards role is based in the Highway Operations team. This team aims to ensure that we help everyone to make safe and reliable journeys on Kent’s highway network. We do this by regularly inspecting roads and footways, repairing faults and damage quickly, responding to highway emergency situations (including winter gritting and other severe weather response), resolving faults reported by customers and by engaging with local communities and local Councils.

Both of these roles will require the successful candidate to provide support to the Safety inspections team or local district maintenance teams as directed.

If you are able to prioritise and organise your own workload and be a team player, work to tight deadlines, be methodical in your approach and have good 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

Dan Brown - 03000 421867

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.