Rights of Way Officer

Northampton, England, United Kingdom

11/29/2024

We're looking for a Rights of Way Officer to join our Transportation team based in Brixworth. Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, matched pension scheme, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, with opportunities to buy/sell leave and even more.

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment

Location: Brixworth, Northamptonshire

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

What will you be responsible for?

As an Rights of Way Officer, you'll be working within the Delivery Team ensuring that public rights of way / access to the countryside is maintained

Your Day To Day Will Include

• Communicating with a wide range of partners and stakeholders, including landowners, elected members and partner organisations, achieving public enquiry KPI response time targets and improving further where possible
• Inspecting and assessing the general condition of the rights of way network, inspecting 20% of the network annually in accordance with the rights of way improvement plan
• Categorising, logging and entering defects onto the asset management system. ensuring defects are categorised and repaired in accordance with the highways inspection manual, recommending sites for comprehensive maintenance to be included in the capital programme
• Checking maintenance i.e. grass cutting is following various service plans
  
  
  

What are we looking for?

This role of Rights of Way Officer is great for you if:

• Demonstrate qualifications in a relevant subject or field including knowledge of Rights of Way legislation and “Rights of Way: A Guide to Law & Practice” (Blue Book)
• You drive and hold a full driving licence with Lantra qualifications
• Have experience working on the Rights of Way network, demonstrate an ability to resolve conflict confidently and effectively
  
  
  

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards And Benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier