Job description

2-3 month contract role with a Local Authority

Job Summary:

• Oversee and manage highway maintenance activities across the network, ensuring roads, footways and drainage systems are maintained to a safe and compliant standard.

• Deliver reactive, preventative and cyclical maintenance programmes, with a strong focus on highways drainage and flood management.

• Act as a key front-line representative for the Council, responding to incidents, engaging with communities and ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction.

Key Duties/Accountabilities (Sample):

• Undertake routine highway inspections, identifying defects and prioritising maintenance requirements.

• Investigate highway issues, particularly drainage and flooding, using site visits, data analysis and specialist techniques (e.g. CCTV surveys, ground investigations).

• Respond to incidents such as flooding, collisions and spillages, ensuring the network remains safe and operational.

• Scope, order and manage highway maintenance works, including cost estimation, contractor coordination and progress monitoring.

• Plan and programme cyclical and reactive maintenance works to minimise disruption and deliver value for money.

• Work closely with contractors to ensure works are delivered to required standards, timescales and budgets.

• Engage with local communities, parish councils and stakeholders, incorporating local knowledge into maintenance planning.

• Maintain accurate records, reports and data using IT systems, including spreadsheets and (ideally) GIS.

• Ensure compliance with health and safety legislation, risk management processes and council policies.

• Contribute to a “one team” approach, supporting cross-team collaboration and service improvement.

Skills/Experience:

• Strong experience in highway maintenance, particularly drainage and flood management (essential).

• Knowledge of highway legislation, including Highways Act 1980, New Roads & Street Works Act 1991 and Road Traffic Act 1988.

• Experience in winter maintenance operations (desirable).

• Ability to investigate issues, analyse data and produce clear, structured reports.

• Experience managing contractors and overseeing works delivery.

• Competent in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Teams, Outlook).

• Experience using GIS systems (desirable).

• Good understanding of health and safety practices within highways/construction environments.

• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.

• Full UK driving licence (essential).

• CSCS card (desirable).

Additional Information:

• Bi-Weekly Payments.

• Client: Cambridgeshire County Council.

• Contract: Temporary (3 months, with potential extension).

• Hours: 37 per week (09:00 – 17:30).

• Pay Rate: £250 per day (Umbrella).

• Working Pattern: Hybrid (approx. 2 days on-site, remainder remote).

• Role Type: Field-based / Hybrid.

• Requirement: Strong highways drainage and maintenance experience essential.

• Full UK driving licence required.

Cyclical Maintenance Officer

Cyclical Maintenance Officer

Job description