Highway Steward - West Sussex County Council : Job Details

Are you passionate about maintaining and improving the roads and highways in West Sussex? Are you looking for a role with work life balance?

Salary: £31,586 to £34,314 per annum.

Contract: Full-time, 37 hours per week.

Location: Base Drayton Jobs Depot, Hickstead. You will be able to work in a hybrid manner, as determined by the needs of the service.

Contract: Permanent.

Employer Pension Contribution: 19.70% this alters per annum on the 1 April each year.

Annual leave: 27 days holiday + Bank holidays = 35 days.

We are looking for a motivated and customer focused individual to become Highway Steward!

As a Highway Steward, you will support the delivery of a safe highway network to all residents of West Sussex, through the regular inspection and repair of the highways and enforcement of highway legislation. This role is about effective 'stewardship' of the highway responding to highway matters proactively.

You will have a wide range of responsibilities, but the primary focus is responding to customer enquiries; to understand and resolve issues in a timely manner. As the post holder you will also focus on how we can support and enable community groups (e.g. Parishes and Neighbourhood groups) to undertake work themselves.

You will be required to travel around the county independently and will need to plan your work efficiently. You will use your own initiative when carrying out duties and these will include physical activities. The role requires flexibility, you will be expected to cover other areas across the whole of the county or focus on other tasks within the role when required to ensure the efficient operation of the service and teams.

Experience and skills

Key Skills:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to anticipate and identify problems, plan solutions, make sound pragmatic problem-solving decisions and make best use of available resources.
• Strong customer focus with the ability to work within a team that provides a high quality Highways network and effectively raises the profile of Highways maintenance within the Area.
• Good professional observational skills in order to locate faults in the highway and ability to keep accurate records in order to document findings.

Qualifications and/or experience:

• Full current driver's licence.
• Basic theoretical knowledge of engineering / civil construction for planning improvements and repairs to the highway, including the Highways Act and NRSWA, and other relevant pieces of legislation, including health and safety, for enforcement work.
• Sound and accurate IT knowledge.
• Demonstrable customer service & community engagement skills.
• Proven successful experience of working as part of a team to effectively meet objectives within agreed / necessary timescales.

Reward and benefits

We care hugely about wellbeing, allowing time for fun, and developing our team to be the best they can be. Alongside this, we also offer the below benefits:

• A competitive salary
• 27 days annual leave + bank holidays
• A generous pension scheme.
• Supported and encouraged to achieve professional membership of institutions such as the Institution of Civil Engineers and/or the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation, to IEng or CEng status as appropriate
• A strong supportive management team.
• Training opportunities including: coaching and apprenticeships.
• A range of discounts including Argos, Samsung, Asos, B&Q and many more
• Free access to employee assistant programmes
• Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres
• A range of commuting and business travel discount and initiatives.

For a full list of the benefits offered to you as a West Sussex County Council employee you can find them on our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further information

The reference number for this role is EIE01352.

You will be required to travel around the county independently and will need to plan your work efficiently. You will use your own initiative when carrying out duties and these will include physical activities. The role requires flexibility, you will be expected to cover other areas across the whole of the county or focus on other tasks within the role when required to ensure the efficient operation of the service and teams.

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