Highway Officer – AR

MAIN PURPOSE

1. To ensure that public safety on the public highway (and off the highway in exceptional circumstances) is maintained and to report on conditions/activities, predominantly, where public safety may be put  initiate remedial action in accordance with health and safety guidelines where necessary.

2. To undertake the inspection, recording and reporting of highway infrastructure condition defects in accordance with codes of practice, associated highways legislation and best practice on highway maintenance and arrange for appropriate corrective action as necessary.

3. To deal with new applications for vehicle crossovers and disabled bays including, visiting sites, recording details, taking accurate measurements, preparing estimates of costs, assessing safety, statutory and other Council requirements in consultation with colleagues, and advising residents and businesses as appropriate.

4. To assist enforcement of infringements of Highways, Street Works and other related legislation including attending at court on behalf of the Council to give expert evidence on these matters.

5. To monitor, record and report on the activities of 3rd parties working on the highway and take appropriate action to ensure the quality of signing/guarding and workmanship does not adversely impact on user safety.

6. To input data into the Council’s systems in an accurate and timely basis, and to be aware both of the performance indicators this data contributes to, and of the Council’s Data Quality strategy.

At Grade ME8:

7. To carry out a daily inspection of major routes/highways in an allocated area by motor vehicle and report on or initiate action to maintain safety levels and standards within that area.

8. To carry out detailed highway surface inspections on foot, in accordance with current Council inspection regimes, or as otherwise determined by management. The findings of the inspection to be recorded and forwarded to the Council’s engineers and contractors for remedial action as appropriate.

9. To identify and report all street furniture defects, including lighting columns and other electrical signs and bollards, damaged non‑electrical signs and bollards and cycle stands, guard‑rails, street nameplates, highway seats, and road markings, blocked gullies, carriageway ponding and associated drainage problems.

• a. highway surface defects
• b. fly tipping
• c. dangerous structures on or adjacent to the highway
• d. car park conditions
• e. street trees and associated landscaped areas
• f. nuisance vehicles
• g. graffiti and fly posting
• h. instances of hazardous wastes/spillage
• i. illegal crossing of the footway and illegal construction of crossovers
• j. unauthorised excavation of the highway
• k. road traffic accidents and associated damage to Council property debris and oil spillage etc
• l. street trading infringements
• m. overhanging vegetation obstructing the highway.

10. To enforce aspects of legislation including the Highways Act 1980 London Local Authorities Act 1995 and the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 (control of advertising regulations) and to enforce local byelaws.

11. To be competent in the use of electronic data capture devices and to be able to use such devices and to understand the associated software packages and programmes.

12. To interrogate the Corporate Asset Management system on a daily basis, deal with complaints and then update the system and sign off the enquiry/complaint.

13. To ensure that information on all inspection matters is passed promptly to the appropriate party for corrective action, to report on the progress and completion of that action and to ensure that such reports are processed and logged promptly in the appropriate system(s).

14. To undertake asset condition and rating assessments for all highway infrastructure items and to recommend whole streets or individual items within streets for possible inclusion in the Council’s annual major planned maintenance programmes.

15. To assist in the processing of straightforward applications for new or extended footway crossovers and new disabled parking bays including visiting the site, recording details, taking accurate measurements and reporting…