Sign Services Traffic Management Operative
Sign Services Traffic Management Operative
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Job Description
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Mountsorrel Depot Hawcliffe Road Mountsorrel LE12 5TZ
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: per annum (prorata for parttime)
Working Hours:37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent.
Closing Date: 6th April 2025
Interview Date(s): TBC In person
About the Role
As a Sign Services & Traffic Management Operative you will provide an excellent delivery and collection service for temporary traffic management signage for the Highway Delivery workforce. Your work will also support the provision of highway maintenance construction forestry and street lighting activities where stop/go boards are required to direct the flow of traffic. You are responsible for safe temporary traffic management provisions for the site.
The nature of the work may involve you carrying out activities outside of normal working hours including night weekends and public holidays in all weather conditions to meet the needs of the service.
You may be required to support a callout rota to cover evening weekend and public holiday emergencies. Exclusion will apply to employees aged under 21.
This role is a Safety Critical Post and consequently subject to random drug and alcohol testing in accordance with our policies and procedures. A copy of our Substance Misuse Policy and Procedure is available upon request.
About You
To apply for this post you must:
- Have the following qualifications
New Roads and Street works Act (NRSWA) Qualification (Operative)
Valid Driving Licence; it would be ideal (but not essential) if you also has a valid Large Goods Vehicle Licence and CPC Trained with current DQC Card
OR demonstrable evidence of the skills and experience as outlined in the Person specification together with a commitment to attain the essential qualifications. - Experience of working in a highways or civil engineering environment.
- Experience of the safe installation of Temporary Traffic Management including road closures and diversions and the installation maintenance and removal of traffic control systems in a safe manner. Acting as banksman/ signaller for other drivers.
- Extensive knowledge of safe working practices when using plant and machinery construction Health Safety and Environmental requirements and safe working procedures and the code of Practice for Safety at Roadworks.
- Be able and willing to work with everyone in the team. You are selfmotivated and well organised with the ability to use your own initiative in planning and prioritising workload.
- Be able to respond confidently to customers & colleagues with understanding & diplomacy whilst maintaining an objective & professional stance and give customers the correct information and keep them up to date with regular contact.
- Be able to remain calm & positive in challenging circumstances you can react quickly when the work environment requires to make safety related changes to temporary traffic management independently of supervision and you can engage with proposals constructively & rigorously to help agree a way forward
You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.
In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for termtime working parttime hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:
Phil Smith Supervisor Highways Service
Telephone: 0
Email:
or
John Benson Highways Works Manager
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Email:
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Applysection on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning0(select option 2 or raising a ticket via our online portal: applying for this post you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.
Employment Type
Full-Time
