Highway Regulation Officer

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Highway Regulation Officer to join our Living Places business unit to work in Southampton. You will be managing the implementation of highway regulation schemes from start to finish, as well as supporting clients and colleagues on all types of highway regulation matters.

To be successful as a Highway Regulation Officer you should have excellent analytical, research and communication skills, the ability to prioritise and work to tight deadlines, and be able to work well both independently and within a team.

• Managing the end to end process for highway regulation schemes;
• Identifying regulatory requirements for highway improvement schemes and new developments;
• Drafting legal documents, project briefs and reports;
• Coordinating with multiple stakeholders to make sure that scheme requirements, deadlines, and schedules are being met;
• Researching, analysing and advising on legal and regulatory matters;
• Liaising with a range of different stakeholders (including Senior Management, Ward Councillors and organisation leaders).

• Degree;
• An understanding of Traffic Engineering or Highway Regulation is desirable but not essential;
• Highly organised and able to manage multiple tasks;
• Excellent communication skills;
• Strong analytical and research skills;
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

The way we live our lives is changing fast: where and how we live, work, travel, shop, relax and socialise. The evolving nature of our society means we all need to shape our environment to meet a complex array of individual and collective needs.

Living Places works in partnership with Local Authorities to consult, finance, design, build and manage the essential place infrastructure that local communities and national economies need to prosper and grow.

We are right at the heart of a dynamic ‘place shaping’ agenda that brings Local Authorities, local communities, Central Government, and the Private Sector together to create safe, sustainable, flexible and dynamic public spaces geared to community social need, economic growth and personal well-being as well as being environmentally sustainable.

The provision of maintenance services for highways is only a small part of what is really needed. Our focus has moved beyond the ‘road’ to deliver the potential of the ‘street’: a dynamic public place that connects and combines local community and business needs, encourages social interaction and helps pedestrians, motorists, bus riders, and cyclists to coexist safely. Building great public spaces with resource efficient assets enables functional, flexible and inspirational places to be at the heart of the community.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ’Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/