Senior Highway Maintenance Officer in Huntingdon

We’re looking for a proactive and community focused Senior Highway Maintenance Officer to help keep Cambridgeshire’s highway network safe, resilient, and well maintained. In this leadership role, you will oversee reactive maintenance across your district, ensuring the network is inspected, managed and maintained to our standards. This is a key operational position, responsible for ensuring that our roads, footways, drainage systems, and associated infrastructure are safe, resilient, and maintained to our standards. You’ll take responsibility for managing a team of Highway Maintenance Officers, supporting their development, and acting as the escalation point for complex cases. This role is central to Cambridgeshire County Council’s commitment to excellent customer service, safe highways, and effective asset management.

What will you be doing?

You will lead a team of Highway Maintenance Officers, providing day-to-day support, coaching and oversight to ensure inspections and customer reports are carried out consistently and to a high standard. This includes managing the district inspection rota, ensuring all parts of the network are inspected at the required frequency, and carrying out spot checks and shadowing to maintain quality and compliance. A key part of the role involves overseeing highway fault investigations, working with officers to scope repairs, estimate costs and place orders with the term maintenance using an asset management system in line with our own highway operational standards. You will ensure all inspection records and documentation are accurate, well maintained and available for use in claims, audits and Freedom of Information requests. In collaboration with the Area Highway Maintenance Manager, you’ll work closely with contractors, residents, elected members, parish and town councils, and internal specialist teams to deliver high quality maintenance works, investigate faults, and ensure our communities are kept informed and supported. You will also handle minor highway enforcement matters, such as unauthorised works or verge encroachment, escalating cases where necessary. Throughout all activities, you will contribute to the organisation’s sustainability and Net Zero goals by promoting responsible decision making and best practice within the team.

About you

• H.N.C. (or equivalent experience) in Civil Engineering, Highways, Construction or a related discipline.
• Strong technical knowledge of highway design, construction, maintenance and drainage, informed by national standards such as DMRB and MCHW.
• In depth understanding of relevant legislation, including the Highways Act 1980 and NRSWA 1991.
• Excellent organisational, communication and problem solving skills.
• Ability to lead, support and motivate a team, ensuring consistent high quality service delivery.
• Confident IT skills across Microsoft applications.
• Use of asset management applications.
• Understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Ability to contribute to the Council’s Net Zero 2030 commitment.
• Flexibility to travel to sites (including locations with limited public transport) and occasionally work outside standard hours.

Why join us?

You’ll be part of a supportive team passionate about delivering high quality services for communities across Cambridgeshire. You’ll have the opportunity to make a visible difference on the ground, grow your technical expertise, and shape how the county’s highways are managed in the future.

Our benefits

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family.
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme.
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances.
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings.
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth.
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day.
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards.
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes.

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes. Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do. We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities.