Highway Technician in Hove

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.

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
• Supporting the Highway Engineer in delivering the work to resurface carriageways and footways
• Project managing small scale reactive maintenance schemes
• Procuring work through the NEC Highway Framework Contract
• Analysing 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

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

Additional Information: Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only. Work Permits: We may be able to obtain a Work Permit for this post but this is subject to meeting the requirements of the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) Points-based Immigration System. Please see Gov.uk for more information on the Skilled Worker Visa.

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

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 the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce.