Highways Inspector

About the role

National Highways is seeking a field-based Highways Inspector to cover the Sandy and Newport Pagnell areas. This position is suited to someone with an inspection background in highways or a similar environment who wants a fresh challenge, regular daytime working, and greater independence in planning day-to-day work.

Reporting to the Inspector Team Manager, you will work alone or alongside another team member to complete condition and safety inspections, carry out survey activity, and feed back on the quality of asset repairs. Inspections will be completed across your assigned patch during the working day.

The post offers flexibility in working patterns by agreement with the team manager, although the contractual working week is 37 hours. You should also expect occasional unsociable hours, including nights, when required to respond to incidents.

You must be able to drive as part of the role and have no more than 3 penalty points on your licence, both at the time of consideration and throughout employment. It is also preferred that you live within one hour’s commute of the depot.

Key duties

• Perform routine driven safety checks and raise work requests for urgent safety defects.
• Complete scheduled and ad hoc driving and walking inspections of network assets, following agreed procedures, standards, and programmes of work.
• Record the condition of assets and note findings such as defects and likely causes.
• Review event and illegal signage and escalate concerns where action is needed.
• Help regional engineering teams plan work by gathering and sharing current inspection and asset condition information.
• Keep health, safety, and wellbeing considerations at the centre of all work carried out for customers and colleagues.

Candidate profile

National Highways is looking for someone who can bring either direct experience of highways asset condition inspections or transferable inspection experience from another sector. A working knowledge of highway asset maintenance and the legal aspects connected to highway maintenance and inspection is important.

You should also have a solid understanding of health and safety as it applies to highway maintenance work, along with strong IT and data collection skills. Experience using data capture devices would be an advantage.

The successful candidate will be able to manage their own workload effectively while also contributing positively as part of a team.

About National Highways

National Highways looks after and improves England’s motorways and major A roads, supporting safer, smoother, and more dependable journeys for road users. Its core priorities are safety, customers, and delivery, underpinned by the values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork, and ownership.

Operations plays a central role in keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring customers receive the best possible service on the roads. The organisation handles more than 39,000 customer enquiries each month, plans and delivers maintenance across the network, works to improve efficiency and systems, and responds to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads.

Additional information

External applicants will normally be placed at the lower end of the salary band, while existing employees will be appointed in line with the organisation’s pay policy. National Highways is committed to building a diverse workplace and encourages applications from candidates of all backgrounds.