Senior Highway Maintenance Officer

We're looking for a proactive and community focused Senior Highway Maintenance Officer to help keep Cambridgeshire's highway network safe, resilient, and well maintained. In this leadership role, you will oversee reactive maintenance across your district, ensuring the network is inspected, managed and maintained to our standards.

• Oversee reactive maintenance across the district ensuring roads, footways, drainage systems and associated infrastructure are safe, resilient and maintained to standards.
• Lead a team of Highway Maintenance Officers, providing day‑to‑day support, coaching and oversight to ensure inspections and customer reports are carried out consistently and to a high standard.
• Manage the district inspection rota, ensuring all parts of the network are inspected at the required frequency, and carry out spot checks and shadowing to maintain quality and compliance.
• Oversee highway fault investigations, working with officers to scope repairs, estimate costs and place orders with the term maintenance using an asset management system in line with the council's operational standards.
• Ensure all inspection records and documentation are accurate, well‑maintained and available for use in claims, audits and Freedom of Information requests.
• Work closely with contractors, residents, elected members, parish and town councils, and internal specialist teams to deliver high‑quality maintenance works, investigate faults and keep communities informed.
• Handle minor highway enforcement matters such as unauthorised works or verge encroachment, escalating cases when necessary.
• Contribute to the organisation's sustainability and Net Zero goals by promoting responsible decision‑making and best practice within the team.

• H.N.C. (or equivalent experience) in Civil Engineering, Highways, Construction or a related discipline.
• Strong technical knowledge of highway design, construction, maintenance and drainage, informed by national standards such as DMRB and MCHW.
• In‑depth understanding of relevant legislation, including the Highways Act 1980 and NRSWA 1991.
• Excellent organisational, communication and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to lead, support and motivate a team, ensuring consistent high‑quality service delivery.
• Confident IT skills across Microsoft applications.
• Experience with asset‑management applications.
• Understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Ability to contribute to the Council's Net Zero 2030 commitment.
• Flexibility to travel to sites (including locations with limited public transport) and occasionally work outside standard hours.

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family.
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro‑rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme.
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances.
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings.
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth.
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day.
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards.
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in‑store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes.

Why join us? You'll be part of a supportive team passionate about delivering high‑quality services for communities across Cambridgeshire.

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self‑organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

Disability Confident: A disability‑confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. In certain recruitment situations such as high‑volume, seasonal and high‑peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non‑disabled people.

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