Highways Inspector

East Sussex, England, United Kingdom

6/2/2025

About the role

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our Living Places team as a Highways Inspector/Highways Steward, you’ll work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.

What you'll be doing

• To undertake routine and reactive safety inspections of the highway. Ensuring inspections are completed in accordance with the relevant timeframes and standard. 
• To identify and record defects, assessing risk and raising applicable works orders. 
• To manage enquiries, ensuring investigation and completion in accordance with relevant policies and procedures. Responding to customers in a professional manner. 
• To undertake detailed inspections of the highway, recording all relevant information and selecting appropriate remedial actions. 
• To fully investigate claims by 3rd parties for personal injury or damage to property. Ensuring all key information is collated, to support a robust defence. 
• Attend regular meetings with local councillors, residents, and other stakeholders, ensuring a professional & collaborative approach. 
•   Collaboratively support delivery of other service elements, in Network Management and the Wider Contract. 
• Support the implementation of effective processes, to maximise the recovery on green claims. 

Who we're looking for

• Previous experience within Highways Inspections or Operations. 
• A working knowledge of Highways Maintenance standards/policies. 
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to manage customer expectations, in a polite and professional manner. 
• Good IT skills. 
• Ability to manage a diverse workload, prioritising, to ensure relevant deadlines and targets are achieved.  

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About us

Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [email protected]