Highways Superintendent

About The Job

Some key information

• Hybrid working available - working out on the Somerset based highway network, our Bridgwater based office and from home.
• Permanent Contract – 37 hours per week
• 28 days’ annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Opportunity for Out of Hours paid overtime as emergency response support.
• On-going training to ensure both role and industry recognised competencies are met and to achieve accreditation.
• Progression/development opportunities.
  
  

What will I be doing?

Somerset Council is responsible for highway management and maintenance within Somerset. This role is key to day-to-day management of the Highway Service.

Your day-to-day work will involve:

• Responding to reports from all stakeholders of alleged dangerous conditions on the highway. Inspect, assesses risk and priority, and order repairs when necessary.
• Considering and responding to service requests/complaints from elected members, public, police and other organisations in accordance with current policies and service objectives.
• Using computer-based systems (Confirm, SharePoint and iShare), for network record keeping, issuing works to the service provider and for the recovery of historical information.
  
  

What kind of experience or qualifications do I need?

We offer ongoing support, training and guidance to help you be the best you can be. But it will really help if you:

• Have practical experience of highways maintenance and can identify, risk, assess, prioritise and order necessary highway maintenance works.
• Can evaluate information, identify solutions and be able to organise your own workload.
• BTEC in Civil Engineering with relevant craft and/or technical experience, or equivalent.
• Experience in Local Budget Management
  
  

We’re proud to be here for the people of Somerset. And that means everyone in Somerset. An important part of this is ensuring that we are as diverse and inclusive as the people and communities we serve.

We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact the hiring manager for a chat if there’s anything you want to talk about before you apply.

What's in it for me?

We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset. We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

• We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.

Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave.

Staff discounts in gyms.

Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.

Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.

A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work, computers, mobile phones and health screenings.

My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more.

Anything else I should know?

The salary for the role is Grade 12, ranging from £28,598 to £32,061 per annum

For an informal chat about the role, you can contact Neil McWilliams, Highway Service Manager, via 0300 123 2224.

If you have everything you need, just hit the apply button. We can’t wait to hear from you.