Highway Maintenance Engineer (Client)

It’s an exciting time to join our Highways Team here at Staffordshire County Council.  

 Our vision is to help Staffordshire’s economy grow, so that everyone has the opportunity of a good job and good prospects in a beautiful, safe, accessible, vibrant, cultural, prosperous, business friendly and sustainable county. 

Staffordshire has great places and great connections, boasting the beautiful rural landscape of a shire county together with excellent transport links to major destinations across the country.    

We are committed to fixing more roads and improving transport and digital connections and we are making significant investment into the quality of our roads. To ensure we can deliver our ambitious Highways Transformation we are looking to grow our team of highway engineering professionals and develop talent for the future. 

Main Responsibilities

As a member of the Highways Maintenance and Network Management team you will:

• develop, maintain and review service specifications for emergency, routine, reactive and cyclical and winter highway maintenance services.
• review of annual service plans submitted by delivery partners.
• develop, agree and review the performance management framework for highway maintenance contracts in conjunction with key stakeholders and contractors.
• Lead on public engagement for highway maintenance services and communications across multiple formats.

The Ideal Candidate

You’ll have experience in the management or delivery of emergency, reactive, routine and cyclical highway maintenance together with:

• Degree or equivalent professional qualification in relevant discipline
• knowledge of statutory obligations of highway authorities, highway inspections and work identification procedures
• understanding of design standards, design guidance and statutory requirements associated with highway maintenance activities.
• experience of contract and performance management with providers to deliver services.
• Ability to develop and maintain partnerships to support ongoing service delivery.

The interview date for this vacancy is Thursday 27 February 2025. 

For an informal chat about the role please contact Anna Johnson or Colin Perkins (Wed-Fri only) at: anna.johnson@staffordshire.gov.uk or colin.perkins@staffordshire.gov.uk

We are committed to flexible working, with options for working from home and office depot locations across Staffordshire. 

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too. 

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance. 

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.