What’s involved with this role: Interim Highways Engineers/Inspectors Greenwich RQ1436773 Key Requirements: *Experience in highway inspection of construction/repair work completed.
*Experience of carrying out inspections.
*Experience of carrying out site inspections, preparing surveys, cost estimates and feasibility studies.
*Highway, road construction, bridges, drainage and paving inspection experience is preferred. .
*The candidate must have a relevant certificate in Highway Inspection (Legal/ Technical/Health & safety/Practical assessment).
*The successful candidate will carry out safety inspections of highways, managing minor repairs, and responding to service requests from residents.
Key Responsibilities: *Issue works orders within agreed programmes and delegated limits for repairs identified in the course of the safety inspections.
*Inspect work by contractors and statutory undertakers, checking for quality and quantity and materials as per specification.
*Assist in the production of contract documents.
*Produce estimates and carry out measurements for costing purposes.
*Carry out site measurements and inspection preparatory to payment and approval of contractors work.
*Design and supervise minor schemes.
*Supervise minor maintenance contracts. Initiate works within limits of delegated authority, prepare variation orders for authorisation, check contractor’s accounts and certify payments.
*Issue instructions and give guidance on site. Stop or reject works on site which violate specification or codes of practice and safety standards. Order minor works within limits of delegated authority.
*Assist in the supervision of the annual surface dressing programme including monitoring of the budget.
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.Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work.  It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address.Please feel free to apply to us direct via by quoting the job reference and exact job title.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 at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than 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.Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please