About the role
We’re looking for a Highways Inspector to join our UKCS Living Places team in Southampton, supporting the delivery of essential highway services across the city. This is a key role within our Southampton contract, where you’ll be responsible for maintaining the safety, quality and performance of the highway network in a high-profile environment.
Working across a variety of locations, you’ll carry out inspections, ensure compliance with health, safety and quality standards, and build strong relationships with customers and stakeholders. You’ll play an important part in delivering a safe and reliable service for the local community, while supporting our commitment to Zero Harm and operational excellence.
What you'll be doing
In this role, you’ll be at the heart of maintaining and improving the local highway network. Your responsibilities will include:
- Carrying out highway safety inspections across Southampton, ensuring routes meet required standards and are assessed within agreed timeframes
- Investigating third-party claims relating to personal injury or property damage, gathering robust evidence to support outcomes
- Conducting driven and walked inspections, identifying defects and ensuring appropriate actions are taken right first time
- Supporting asset management activities through technical assessments and contributing to long-term network performance
- Responding to urgent enquiries and supporting emergency service provision, including out-of-hours requirements
- Working collaboratively with internal teams, contractors, and stakeholders including the local authority and community representatives
- Attending meetings with councillors, residents and stakeholders, maintaining a professional and customer-focused approach
- Promoting a strong safety culture, ensuring compliance with all health, safety and environmental standards
- Acting as a positive ambassador for the business, delivering excellent customer service at all times
Who we're looking for
We’re looking for a proactive and detail-focused individual who is passionate about maintaining safe and efficient highways. You’ll bring:
- Experience within a highways environment, ideally in inspections or operational delivery
- Knowledge of highway civils and traffic management
- Experience working in a customer-facing environment and engaging with the public and stakeholders
- An understanding of insurance or third-party claims processes
- A full UK driving licence
You’ll also demonstrate:
- A strong commitment to health and safety and high-quality standards
- Excellent communication skills and a professional, customer-focused approach
- The ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Reliability, integrity and a positive, solutions-focused attitude
- A willingness to learn and continuously improve
Desirable (but not essential) qualifications include NRSWA, 12D Traffic Management, Safety Inspection of Highways, First Aid, SSSTS or CSCS Highway Maintenance.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About us
Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [email protected]
Job Reference: BBUK19441
