Traffic Assistant in Birmingham

This is a permanent role. Location: Two Snowhill - Birmingham. Salary: c£40,530.60pa to £47,683.60pa (inclusive of a flexible benefits fund of 15%) depending on skills and experience. HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives, and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish, and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As a Traffic Assistant at HS2 you will be responsible for supporting the Traffic Manager in fulfilling their accountabilities and liaising and co-ordinating between HS2’s contractors and the local highways authorities on traffic and transport matters to ensure that contractors provide appropriate documentation, plans, drawings and implementation in accordance with existing legislation and the HS2 Act. Traffic Assistants are embedded within the Integrated Project Teams (IPTs).

About the role:

• To be responsible for supporting the Traffic Manager to co-ordinate between the delivery contractors, their respective consultants, the local highway authorities, utility companies, and community engagement teams.
• To be responsible for supporting the Traffic Manager in the programming of temporary traffic management requirements.
• To be responsible for providing progressive assurance and reviewing the Contractors Local Traffic Management Plans to support a “right first time” submission enabling an efficient approval process.
• To be responsible for ensuring that traffic management programmes and all temporary traffic management records for a geographic area of the project are documented and updated.
• To be responsible for supporting the Traffic Manager in providing assurance that the project is not creating new significant adverse effects beyond those reported in the Environmental Statement and that HS2’s Traffic Management obligations (such as Undertakings & Assurances) are being met within the geographical area, escalating as required.
• To be responsible for supporting the Traffic Manager to review, submit and monitor applications for highway consent for highway works to be carried out by the contractors within a defined geographic area.
• To be responsible for supporting the Traffic Manager to review the contractors’ construction programmes and review if method constraints are required to meet the requirements of the project’s Environmental Statement.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

About You:

• Skills: Ability to quickly and effectively report on qualitative and quantitative data. Ability to use Microsoft applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access) and the internet. Ability to work methodically, follow processes and ensure the detailed records of programmes and contents are maintained.
• Knowledge: Awareness of Chapter 8 Traffic Signs Manual standards to assist the Traffic Manager in the assurance of the contractor’s temporary traffic management designer and installers/maintainers. Knowledge of the function and capability of traffic modelling tools.
• Types of Experience: Experience of general traffic management (particular safety schemes), temporary traffic management standards (Chapter 8), and delivery of temporary works at traffic signals. Experience of compiling reports, presentations and data models relating to traffic management. Educated to degree level in transport, traffic or highway engineering or a similar numerate discipline, or equivalent training and experience.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity, and Respect. It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept. Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application; however, we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised, and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs. HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities. HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.