Highway Steward – Balfour Beatty, East Sussex, Living Places Team, Operational Specialists East Sussex, Permanent
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 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…
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