Highway Technician

Job introduction

Highway Technician – Highway Operations

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full Time, 37 per week

Interview Date: TBC

Are you passionate about delivering change that has a long-lasting, positive impact on people’s lives and where they live? This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-profile service that has a direct influence on the way that everyone travels around Brighton & Hove.

This role is central to supporting the city’s highest-value asset – its highway network – ensuring it is well-maintained and continues to meet the needs of our diverse communities through the provision of specialist engineering expertise.

About the role

Join us in Brighton and Hove – a unique, energetic, diverse centre for culture in the South East and an exciting place to develop your career.

The city places emphasis on high-quality, forward-thinking, sustainable development and travel solutions. As a council we are committed to creating a more liveable city in which residents and visitors feel healthier, safer, more socially connected and included.

As a Highway Technician you will support the delivery of the safety maintenance service. The role will support the Highway Engineer in delivering planned and reactive maintenance across the city.

The condition of the city’s highway network affects all residents, businesses and visitors, so you’ll be joining a service in the public eye. Your organisational abilities and can do approach will be as important as your communication skills and experience working with a wide range of stakeholders.

You will be responsible for:

• Producing detailed technical drawings in AutoCAD

• Support the Highway Engineer in delivering the work to resurface carriageways and footways

• Project manage small scale reactive maintenance schemes

• Procure work through the NEC Highway Framework Contract

• Analyse technical data to support the identification of schemes and use as evidence for the development of forward work programmes.

• Assisting with the Asset team to improve/ support the way we deliver maintain our network.

You will be based in our modern, open plan offices in the city centre and benefit from flexible working, including home-working. Joining an enthusiastic and supportive team, you’ll collaborate with colleagues from a range of fields, working closely with other Transport services to deliver transport infrastructure changes across the city.

We offer great terms and conditions including the Local Government Pension Scheme, excellent training and development, generous annual leave and staff discounts.

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full Time, 37 per week

If you would like to discuss this position further then please email tom.kent@brighton-hove.gov.uk

We welcome full and part-time applications. For information about other benefits of working at the Council and how we can support your application, please see the following links:

As part of your application, you will need to complete your education and work history and provide answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk)) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us

Company information

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and How we create a fair and inclusive workplace.