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Duties include coordination of major project work, assessing applications for road works and streetworks taking place on the public highway from internal teams, private contractors and Utility companies, assessing applications for skips, scaffolds, and connections into existing utility assets.
Key Accountabilities:
1. Inspect, monitor and maintain records of activities within or affecting the highway to ensure compliance with legal, technical and other regulations placed upon the Council as a Highway Authority, to ensure safety at road and street works and that the condition of the highway asset is protected.
2. To assist with the governance of delivery contracts by carrying out a programme of inspections designed to ensure activities delivered through the highway authorities maintenance contracts meet the required technical standards/specification.
3. Minimise disruption to the highway network through day-to-day monitoring and inspection of activity, including other Traffic Management Act (TMA) functions on the network to ensure the statutory duties of the Council as a Traffic Authority are fulfilled.
4. To organise individual inspection workload within a geographical area to ensure that the required inspections and site visits are efficiently carried out and completed.
