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Asset Systems and Data Officer

Permanent, Full Time

£35,114 to £41,311 per annum

Location: Chelmsford

Working Style: Fixed-base worker

Closing Date: 23rd February 2025

The Role

Essex County Council (ECC) is one of the largest and most dynamic local authorities in the UK and we look after a large and diverse geographical region of the country.

Essex covers over 1,420 square miles and has over 1.8 million residents in a range of coastal, rural and urban communities. ECC has a very successful track record of delivering transformational change in the public sector and has worked hard to deliver better quality at lower cost. We have an ambitious transformation agenda - one with the scope to reach every part of the council. We are changing the way we think, the way we work, and the ways in which we deliver our services to support our residents.

We are committed to becoming a place where individuals, partners and communities feel proud to play their role and genuinely want to belong. We're immensely proud of our flexible working options.

The Opportunity

Essex Highways is responsible for managing and maintaining one of the largest highway networks in the country: 5,000 miles of roads and around 5,000 miles of footways. Essex Highways is a delivery partnership between Essex County Council and our contractual partner.

Essex Highways Engineers will deliver a safe, sustainable and effective highway network for all road users, through sound asset management, scheme/programme identification, delivery, maintenance and management of the network. Liaising directly with elected members, district councils, strategic partners and other providers, the role will manage the implementation of the programmes of work relevant to an operational/service area, in accordance with the strategies and policies of the Council.

The Asset Systems and Data Officer will develop, implement and maintain Asset Management Systems, ensuring the effective use by managing relationships with all Highways Teams, stakeholders and business partners both internally and externally.

The role will develop, manage and support the implementation of Business Process/Work flows and make recommendations for continuous system or process improvement. Providing training and support to all Highways Teams, Stakeholders and Partners ensuring effective management of Asset Management systems.

Accountabilities

• Responsible for the identification, design, planning, programming, ordering and monitoring of work and services, to ensure future programmes are delivered on time and within budget.
• Responsible for providing specialist advice and guidance to senior leaders/members and the general public on all highway related matters, to meet relevant targets and deliver high performance standards.
• Responsible for ensuring strong budgetary control and financial management is undertaken for areas of responsibility in order to deliver programmes of work within the allocated budgets.
• Provide information to assist with the management and monitoring of the Essex Highways contract and work collaboratively with the others to ensure that they meet the service objectives.
• Contribute to the provision of statistical and management information to report/share relevant information with stakeholders.
• Develop and manage the implementation of system management protocols to enable the timely collection and provision of performance and management information. Researching and identify new systems when business and legislative requirements cannot be met by existing systems.
• Responsible for ensuring the seamless flow of information between Highways Teams, Partners and Stakeholders, including improved IT interfaces.
• Manage and Participate in key projects relating to Asset Management Systems with minimal supervision or instruction.
• Liaise with colleagues across Essex Highways to identify requirements for key performance and management information, access relevant and accurate data and to confirm reliability and validity for both internal and external stakeholders
• Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.

The Experience You Will Bring

• Educated to RQF Level 6 (Bachelor's degree) or equivalent proven experience in the field of highways and/or transportation.
• Evidence of continuing professional development, and expert knowledge in relevant professional area with Membership of the Institute of Civil Engineers, Institute of Highways & Transportation, Institute of Highway Incorporated Engineers, or other appropriate professional body.
• Detailed knowledge and experience of working with Highways IT Systems, in particular Confirm with an awareness of statistical information sources and an understanding of how data is collected.
• Knowledge and experience of budgetary governance, management and control measures.
• Extensive knowledge and application of Highway legislation, Health and Safety legislation including Construction (Design and Management) Regulations, relevant design procedures and standards/practice.
• Evidence of post qualification experience in the field of highways and transportation and project management and implementation. With experience of managing the development and implementation of the highway aspects of highways schemes including statutory processes.
• Detailed knowledge and experience of a wide range of relevant engineering or service techniques and procedures including being fully conversant with the use of specialist software tools.
• Ability to build and maintain effective internal and external working relationships and experience of dealing with members of the public.

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Please note that the job role requires you to be mobile throughout an operational area. Therefore, the post holder will need to have a driving licence and access to a vehicle, or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means.

Why Essex? Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England's oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest - Basildon and Harlow - are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career. Read more about us.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We're committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.

We're also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

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