- Pay Rate:
£16.70 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 6-7 months
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Temporary Highway Maintenance Officer
Reference no: Surrey BL TCL 81135
Pay Rate: £16.70 per hour PAYE
35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 6-7 months
City: REIGATE
This is an important front facing role and will be the focal point for delivering and supporting a range of maintenance activities. The role will be varied with different challenges each day, ranging from managing vegetation gangs, investigating drainage issues to explaining what we are doing to customers and Members. The postholder will always be expected to uphold excellent customer care standards and communicate directly with a range of stakeholders, including residents and elected Members. Reporting to the Maintenance Engineer, they will be part of a team which needs to be flexible and deal with issues over a wide geographical area. It is expected the team will be the eyes and ears on the ground and support significant or emergency events
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan and prioritise own work activities for the weeks ahead, to ensure operational efficiency. Respond effectively to changing demands, adjusting priorities as needed.
- Assist with work in a relevant technical or regulatory area in order that statutory and policy compliance is maintained.
- Respond to and resolve enquiries and problems, judging when to pass on complex queries or involve others, to provide an effective service and clear advice to colleagues and customers.
- Guide and/or supervise junior staff in their duties to facilitate their development and ensure service quality standards are maintained.
- Communicate and liaise with service users and/or external contacts, representing the team/service as required.
- May assist in the management of a small budget or recovery of income.
- Collate data, prepare reports/statistics to meet statutory/management information requirements.
- Recommend improvements and support implementation to systems, processes and procedures, ensuring best practice is shared across the team.
- Support, coordinate and undertake research into a variety of projects in the defined area of activity to support achievement of team’s objectives.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
- Good standard of Secondary Education. New Roads and Street works Act accreditation (or equivalent, training can be provided for this).
- Suitable qualification (such as City & Guilds) in Highways and Inspection & Monitoring (training can be provided)
- Educated to A level, HNC or equivalent, or able to evidence ability at an equivalent level, and/or relevant vocational qualification (level 3/4 QCF).
Knowledge:
- Knowledge of relevant technical area including, where appropriate, relevant practical skills.
Skills & Abilities:
- Good IT skills, including MS Office and database management systems.
- Good written and oral communication skills with the ability to build sound relationships with customers and explain technical issues to non technical people.
- High level administrative, analytical and organisational skills.
- Ability to prepare and present reports in a logical and digestible format.
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