Highways clerk of Works

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
 

• Job Title:                           Highways clerk of Works
• Job Location:                     Shire Hall 
• Salary:                              £33,143 - £36,363 per annum 
• Hours per Week:                37.00 
• Contract Type:                   Permanent 
• Closing Date:                    27/02/2026 
• Job Requisition Number:    12178 
• This post is not open to job share

About The Team & Role

Are you ready for a new challenge? Looking to progress your existing skills in highway construction? Want to expand on your experience in the private or public sector? Then your new career could be right here! 

We have an exciting opportunity for 2 skilled Highway Clerk of Works to join a busy Highways Development Management team in the beautiful county of Gloucestershire.

As a Clerk of Works you’ll take on a vital role undertaking site inspections to assess highway construction under Sections 38, 184 and 278 of the Highways Act (1980). You will work across Gloucestershire to ensure developer led infrastructure is constructed to the highest standards, inspecting every stage from initial ground condition reports to final sign-off for highway adoption. You will be liaising with developers and contractors along with councillors, members of the public and Gloucestershire County Council colleagues every day as well as compiling comprehensive inspection reports and being Gloucestershire County Council’s main point of contact for all developer’s site construction teams.

This is an exciting time for talented, self-driven highway professionals to join a team and County Council going from strength-to-strength, affording you the opportunity to play a crucial part in ensuring Gloucestershire remains a desirable location where people want to live, work, and visit.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have extensive knowledge of specifications and standards relating to the highway and construction sector along with experience of the on-site delivery of highway improvement schemes. You will have experience of working within CDM regulations, Road Safety Audits, Traffic Regulations and NRSWA and be familiar with related guidance and legislation such as GCC Technical Specification for New Streets, Manual for Streets, DMRB, TSRGD, LTN1/20, Tactile Paving Surfaces, Kerbing and SuDS. You will be capable of working independently and possess strong technical and engineering acumen, using this to generate regular work reports and carry out staged inspections. You will be personable and professional, with a proven track record of providing robust technical solutions to complex engineering problems. You will bring your problem-solving skills and customer-focused nature to a talented team delivering a crucial service.

You will be proactive and committed to your professional development within civil engineering and, more specifically, highways development management.

About Us

We are committed to investing in your development and operate flexible times and ways of working. Although you will be predominantly out meeting developers and their contractors anywhere within the County, you will also be working on your laptop in one of our offices or working from home.
 

As you’d expect, we offer an attractive package of benefits which makes a career in Local Government both flexible and rewarding.

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• An option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
• Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family
• Career development and qualification opportunities
• Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• An in-house Occupational Health service
• Employee discount scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&Cs apply)
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network

How To Apply

If you believe that this is your kind of environment, and you have the skills, desire and experience required to make a positive difference, then please submit your CV and personal statement today by clicking the “Apply Now” button.

For an informal discussion about the role or how your skill set may match ours, please contact Sam Fletcher on Sam.Fletcher@gloucestershire.gov.uk

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-

Highways Clerk of works - Job Profile

The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months' employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer. 

If you are an Internal applicant and consider yourself to have a disability* as per the Equality Act (2010), please declare this in an email to recruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk, as this is NOT currently covered in the application due to a technical error.

By providing this information, you can choose to be considered for a guaranteed interview under our Disability Confident pledge if you meet all essential criteria. It also enables the recruiting manager to arrange any reasonable adjustments you may need during the process.

*a disability is defined as: a physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial and long-term (more than 12 months) adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities.  Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.

For more information about the job, view links, download attachments and apply please click on the Apply Now button.