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SalaryContract: Essex Highways
Location: Chelmsford
Contract Type: Permanent
Essex Highways (EH) is responsible for managing and maintaining one of the largest highway networks in the country. EH is a delivery partnership between Essex County Council (ECC) and Ringway Jacobs. ?In this role you will work alongside our contractual partner to deliver highways services. Assist with the investigation and monitoring of streetworks, supporting and assisting with the co-ordination of a range of resources maximising opportunities to deliver our network management duty and safety for the travelling public.
The Role
- Contribute to delivery of the Network Management Duty
- To help in the operation of the Permit Scheme in accordance with Scheme Document and Section 3 of the Traffic Management Act.
- Assist the Senior Permit Officer and other Senior Officers to ensure delivery of the Essex Highways and Essex Permit Scheme objectives, as defined in agreed service plans, in accordance with all council and Essex Highways standards and policies.
- Assess and process Streetworks permits within requisite timescales and in accordance with good practice and legislation ensuring that the appropriate conditions are applied as necessary
- Taking ownership of your own workload whilst assisting with the team’s workload as capacity allows.
- Ensure all applications are compliant and in accordance with the relevant legislation/code of practice/guidance documents
- Assist with the use of systems and data for collating and reporting relevant performance and management information and record keeping systems.
- Review every application on a case-by-case basis ensuring that all relevant checks (21 point checklist or other checklist or requirement provided by management to assess permits) is used
- Ensure all relevant conditions and time restraints are applied to each job
- To ensure the discharge of the council duties under the relevant legislation ensuring parity with the council’s own works and utilities.
- To review every change request on a case-by-case basis and if necessary escalate for further review
- Ensure that the relevant Inspections are scheduled for the operational team to check compliancy of the works
- Have a working knowledge of all Streetworks processes – TTRO’s, Minor Undertaker, S50, Finance, Failed Reinstatements, Samples, Section 74 and ensure correct implementation
- Assist as part of the wider Streetworks function support continuous improvement of the Streetworks Team, demonstrated through innovations in service delivery, efficiencies and use of technology
- Support the Senior Permit Officer to evaluate prospective impact on local network and any mitigation that will be taken to avoid disruption.
- To help the Senior Permit Officer ensure that enquiries and complaints from members of the public, elected members, officers throughout the council and external agencies in relation to the service are responded to accurately and are within the required timescales.
- Responsible for assisting the Senior Permit Officer in responding to questions and complaints from the public, stakeholders, and partners, to meet relevant targets and provide high performance standards.
- Assist on projects and initiatives agreed with the Senior Permit Officer and other Senior managers.
- Responsible for providing advice, guidance and information to stakeholders, partners, and customers.
- To attend meetings related to your area of responsibility and be able to present information as required.
- To keep up to date and support implementation of updates and changes in legislation, guidance and best practice
- Ensure all health and safety procedures and policies are implemented and adhered to
- Other Ad Hoc duties to fulfil the requirement of the role
Job Description
About You
- We are looking for a thorough, disciplined and detailed oriented person
- Continually seeks out opportunity, practising and encouraging a culture of strategic excellence
- Ability to think logically and apply detailed analysis of data
- Ability to follow clearly defined processes and work independently with minimal supervision
- Ability to work well and co-operate as a member of a team displaying good levels of self-control
- Ability to communicate logically and objectively with a range of different stakeholders
- Good written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to build and maintain effective internal and external working
- Evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in relevant professional area
Benefits
At Ringway Jacobs we recognise that our people make the difference, and in order to do what we do well, particular care is taken in nurturing and investing in our people. That’s why you will always be given the opportunity to utilise your expertise and develop your career.
Ringway Jacobs recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles. We therefore welcome applications from people looking for an alternative working pattern e.g. part-time hours, job share etc. Please let us know on your CV or cover letter if this is what you are looking for.
In return for your hard work you will receive:
Ringway Jacobs recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles. We therefore welcome applications from people looking for an alternative working pattern e.g. part-time hours, job share etc. Please let us know on your CV or cover letter if this is what you are looking for.
In return for your hard work you will receive:
- Sick Pay
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to purchase up to 5 days extra leave
- A variety of discounts through our “RJ Rewards” app, including restaurants, holidays, days out etc
- Life Assurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension scheme
The Company
We are Ringway Jacobs, a leading highways service provider working with local authorities across the UK. Formed in 2005, specifically to provide road network management solutions to local government, our unique blend of engineering capability, innovation and customer care make us the best in class. We support over 10,000 miles of highways, 10,000 miles of footway, almost 7,800 miles of public rights of way and 242,000 street lights. We excel in delivering safe, sustainable service excellence, through our passion, integrity and collaborative culture.
Ringway Jacobs is an equal opportunities employer. We wish to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all our employees.
If you require further details, please contact our Recruitment Team on 0330 311 2502 or e-mail them on careers@ringwayjacobs.com. This will take you to a login page, where you will need to create an account to continue your application. Once you have created an account you will be able to see where your application is up to and apply for other opportunities within Ringway Jacobs.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.
We have a dedicated recruitment team and politely request that agencies refrain from contacting anyone across our businesses with regards to speculative CV’s or offering to assist with our vacancies, thank you.
Ringway Jacobs is an equal opportunities employer. We wish to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all our employees.
If you require further details, please contact our Recruitment Team on 0330 311 2502 or e-mail them on careers@ringwayjacobs.com. This will take you to a login page, where you will need to create an account to continue your application. Once you have created an account you will be able to see where your application is up to and apply for other opportunities within Ringway Jacobs.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.
We have a dedicated recruitment team and politely request that agencies refrain from contacting anyone across our businesses with regards to speculative CV’s or offering to assist with our vacancies, thank you.
Please click on the following link for more information on this role: Job Description
To find out more about what we do click here - www.ringway-jacobs.co.uk
