Job Description

This role will include coordinating and managing Highways Consents in accordance with the Route-wide Traffic Management Plan. It will also require liaising between the project, HS2 Ltd and the relevant stakeholders with regards to Highways Consents and proactively developing productive relationships which deliver benefits for all parties.

Flexible working: We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need. This might be part-time, remote working, or compressed hours for example. Anyone who applies for a role can ask about flexibility at interview. In return, we will explore what is possible for the role.

Key Responsibilities

• Work in accordance to the HS2 Route-wide Traffic Management Plan.
• Advise the project delivery team on Highway Consenting manners.
• Work closely with the Area Traffic Management Manager to ensure that the delivery teams’ requirements are consented within a timely manner.
• Maintain the consents register, ensuring that consents are identified and progress is updated in accordance with the programme of works.
• Co-ordinate, prepare and submit highways consents, and other highway related applications.
• Submit Streetworks notices and, or notification of works through the agreed notification process, such as DfT’s ‘StreetManager’.
• Assist in the production of General Principle Compliance Notes (GPCN) and provision of evidence for the HS2 Undertakings & Assurances, to demonstrate compliance for works.
• Ensure works are planned and carried out in accordance with any relevant Undertaking and Assurances.
• Lead and host (if required) the Local Traffic Liaison Group meetings within the area of working, and present current and future planned works.
• Maintain and update highways reports within the delivery area in accordance with the HS2 Route-wide Traffic Management Plan.
• Understand the Client and Joint Venture Partners' Environment and Sustainability Policies, Processes and statutory requirements as they affect the company's operations and ensure that the requirements, as applicable within their discipline, are implemented on the project.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Understanding of the New Roads and Street Works and Traffic Management Acts. Understanding of the Streetworks noticing. Knowledge of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB), Traffic Signs Manual, Traffic Signs Regulation and General Directions (TSRGD). Strong communication and listening skills. Strong presenting skills. Ability to work under pressure. Ability to maintain and build relationships. Understanding of the High Speed 2 London to West Midlands Act, and the associated Highways consenting regime.