Highways & Streetworks Inspector

We Are St Helens Borough Council.

Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.

Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.

Making A Difference as A Highways & Street Works Inspector in the Operations Department.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Street Works Team as a Highway & Street Works Inspector within Highway Management at St Helens, to help us drive forward and support the delivery of the Council’s ambitious Borough strategy. We want you to be part of our new team that is tasked with making us a leading highway authority, efficiently managing, maintaining, and improving our network and supporting economic growth.

We want to compliment the experienced technical expertise that we possess with officers who have relevant programme management experience, displaying first class customer service and stakeholder management skills. Most importantly, if you can bring a willingness to think and act differently, whilst embracing change then you will be rewarded with exciting career development opportunities and a chance to be involved in a variety of transformational programmes of work. We also commit to invest in your professional development to help you forge a career within the Local Authority.

We are looking to recruit a Highways & Street Works Inspector who will be required to assist the Street Works Team with all aspects relating to the management, improvement, and maintenance of the Highway.

You should be experienced in the undertaking of highway inspections and identifying potential defects in accordance with the relevant legislation, as well as co-ordinating and monitoring of statutory undertakers and private contractors working on the public highway, undertaking inspections of street works, attending site meetings, agreeing permit conditions, monitoring Section 50 licences, and permit holders in relation to skip, scaffolding, etc.

Other requirements of the role include site supervision duties, have a knowledge of health and safety procedures and legislation, and Enforcement of the Highways Act 1980., investigate and resolve customer enquiries, and to have experience liaising directly with elected members, resident groups, members of the public, representatives from the emergency services and other public agencies.

Interested to Find Out More?

You can review our full job description details, and person specification information here.

You are also welcome to contact us for a chat before applying by contacting Gareth Tyson, Team Manager – Highway Management on 07966 318555, or Stewart Roberts, Principal Engineer – Street Works on 07824 415325.

Thank you for your interest in working for us. If you are experiencing issues with applying online, you can contact a member of the team at Recruitment@sthelens.gov.uk and a form will be sent to you to complete.

Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications and encourage you to apply early, to avoid disappointment.

Equality & Diversity

St Helens Borough Council respects and values the individuality that every employee brings. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation. Further information about Equality & Diversity at St Helens Borough Council can be found here https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/equality

St Helens Council is a Disability Confident Employer. This means that the Council guarantees an interview to disabled applicants who demonstrate that they meet the essential criteria for the job, as detailed on the Person Specification, and will, for qualifying disabled candidates, make reasonable adjustments within the interview/selection process.

NOLAN Principles of Conduct in Public Life.

All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership.