As a Street Works Officer you will:
- Have a good working knowledge and ensure compliance with the New Roads & Street Works Act, Traffic Management Act and Highways Act. To work collaboratively in providing professional advice and guidance for the wider contract team;
- Have a good working knowledge and clear understanding of the importance of managing the network effectively. Proactively manage and coordinate works, events and activities on the highway. Be responsible for the monitoring and responding to works promoter permits ensuring compliance with the Southampton Roadworks Permit Scheme. Identify and resolve in non compliance and performance issues;
- Liaise with customers, local authorities and utilities to ensure positive relations are maintained and their observations and comments are taken into account to the benefit of the contract. Ensure contractual KPIs for customer responses are achieved. Updating information on public facing systems ensuring precise and clear information for customers;
- Develop and produce contract specific; Contract Performance, Management Information and Performance Indicator Reports and Analysis. Support the roll out of the Integrated Annual Plan in support of the Design / Programme teams. Ensure processes for permit and licence applications, invoices, and streetworks charges are followed and updated to ensure income and cost recovery is maximised aligning to HSP objectives and contract turnover targets. Update and maintain the National Street Gazetteer (NSG) to ensure we comply with statutory requirements for Southampton City Council;
- Be able to demonstrate proficiency in Word, Excel, other MS applications, Street Manager, Confirm, NSG and One-Network;
- Have the ability to prioritise workload to ensure compliance with legal requirements in response to permit applications are met. To achieve relevant contract and client KPIs for Weekly/Monthly reporting to senior management team;
- Be able to communicate efficiently, effectively and clearly with a range of different stakeholders, Senior members of staff, Elected Members and MPs;
- Have a good knowledge and understanding of the relevant Health & Safety requirements. Ensuring compliance with BB Group processes and procedures;
- Undertake personal training and development as required in order to build own skill, knowledge and competence. To act as mentor for new team members as and when required.
Who we're looking for
Personal Qualities and Experience:
- Proven experience in a Network Management environment;
- A working knowledge of Permit Schemes for road & street works;
- Experience of successfully working to targets and tight deadlines;
- PC Literate with knowledge of MS applications e.g. Word, Excel;
- Working knowledge of Street Works management systems e.g Street Manager, Confirm, NSG and one.networks);
- Commercial & Financial Awareness Educated to GCSE standard;
- NRSWA street works Accreditation;
- Lantra 12D T7;
- Full driving licence.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.
About us
The way we live our lives is changing fast: where and how we live, work, travel, shop, relax and socialise. The evolving nature of our society means we all need to shape our environment to meet a complex array of individual and collective needs.
Living Places works in partnership with Local Authorities to consult, finance, design, build and manage the essential place infrastructure that local communities and national economies need to prosper and grow.
We are right at the heart of a dynamic place shaping agenda that brings Local Authorities, local communities, Central Government, and the Private Sector together to create safe, sustainable, flexible and dynamic public spaces geared to community social need, economic growth and personal well-being as well as being environmentally sustainable.
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
To apply - follow this link: Balfour Beatty (balfourbeattycareers.com)