Streetworks Compliance Inspector

Role Purpose:

As an Inspector Streetworks Compliance within the Network Management Team, to operationally provide high quality inspection, recording and reporting on statutory undertakers works, Council promoted works, their contractors and highways activity organisers, so as to ensure compliance with conditions stipulated in permissions for these works, or activities (including events) taking place on the borough’s public highway network, ensuring works are carried out in safe manner and complies with legislative requirements 

Key Responsibilities:

To validate the accuracy of Permit Condition data as supplied by the works promoter and carry out performance monitoring as required under the legislation, providing accurate and concise documentary evidence (including photographs) for reinstatement defects, Fixed Penalty Notices, FPNs and s74 performance.

To manage activities and work streams responsible for, ensuring compliance with current, applicable, and relevant legislation, technical guidance, and Approved Codes of Practice (ACoPs) etc., including having due regard to and complying in particular with the following:

• Traffic Management Act 2004
• Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (as amended)
• New Roads and Street Works Act (NRSWA) 1991
• Specification for the Reinstatement of Openings in Highways – Feb 2019
• Highways Act 1980
• The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016
• Equality Act 2010

Requirements:

In order to feed into the objectives above, the postholder will require working experience of compliance of ‘street works’ and ‘works for road purposes’ and related activities, including sample (Category A, B and C) inspections, defect inspections, works inspection reports/diagrammatic illustrations, investigatory inspections and works, inspection of works under s50 license, overrun charges, compliance with Traffic Signs manual in particular the ‘Red Book’ Chapter 8 regulations.

Knowledge and experience required of the supervision and management of NRSWA 1991 inspections, street works coordination, SRoH, street works safety code of practice and charges related to unreasonably prolonged occupation of the highway.

The postholder will require valid supervisor level certificates from S1 to S7 issued by the Street Works Qualifications Register.

Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.