Highways Infrastructure Support Officer

About us
Salford has changed and is continuing to change; at the heart of our approach are ambitious plans to transform Salford into a modern global city where we can all make a real difference to the lives of Salford people. As a people centred and values-based organisation Salford really is a great place to work. With a positive permission culture and can-do approach, we embrace innovation and encourage performance.

We currently have an exciting vacancy within our Traffic & Transportation team to enable us to continue to build on our success and bring new experience, knowledge, and ideas into the team.

About you
Your style and approach will reflect our values: you will be passionate about what you do always striving to improve things; valuing and respecting others’ contribution, You will work together to deliver a better service; you will take pride in always getting things right first time and learn from when things do go wrong; you will enjoy taking personal responsibility to resolve issues and change what you do and how you do it to make a difference.

About the role
This is a fantastic opportunity to take on a varied, exciting role offering the chance to make a real difference to our Council, as well as Salford as a whole.

The role will require you to get involved in all the aspects of Traffic & Transportation work, including day to day duties to facilitate the smooth running of the office. The main duties include providing timely responses to requests for the Traffic & Transportation service and maintaining a good level of knowledge of projects as well as policies, procedures and statutory legislation to allow support and service delivery.

In addition the role requires having financial responsibility for overseeing the Revenue Maintenance Budget and also to undertake supervision and management of both the Traffic Land Charge Searches Service and the Street Naming and Numbering function.

You must have excellent analytical, scrutiny & public liaison skills and be able to provide a professional primary point of contact for the service, in writing, by e-mail, by telephone and where appropriate face to face. Additionally, you will be required to provide support to senior members of the team and attend relevant meetings from time to time

What we need from you if you are invited to interview:

• Passport/ID - You will be required to provide original documentation confirming your right to work in the UK. Successful candidates will also be required to provide proof of address.

• Qualifications/registrations if applicable for the role

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