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Job Title: Traffic Regulation Officer

Location: Southampton

Company: Balfour Beatty

About the Role:

Balfour Beatty is looking for a Traffic Regulation Officer to join our team supporting local authority clients in the development and delivery of traffic regulation and road safety schemes. This role offers the opportunity to work on projects that improve traffic management, road safety and the overall efficiency of the highway network.

You will be responsible for delivering traffic regulation projects from conception through to implementation, ensuring compliance with legislation, client requirements, budget constraints and programme deadlines. This role requires excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of internal and external partners.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and deliver traffic regulation schemes to agreed budgets and timescales.
• Produce and review traffic management and signing designs in accordance with current legislation and industry standards.
• Prepare legal documentation and supporting information required for the implementation of traffic regulation orders.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with clients, elected members, stakeholders and colleagues.
• Prepare fee proposals and support project financial management activities.
• Develop and maintain project programmes to ensure successful delivery.
• Provide technical advice on traffic regulation, road safety and highway legislation.
• Keep up to date with industry developments, legislation and best practice.
• Contribute to sustainability initiatives and business improvement activities.
• Maintain a strong focus on health, safety and wellbeing in all aspects of work.

• Experience working within traffic regulation, highway engineering, traffic management or road safety.
• Knowledge of traffic regulation legislation, highway law and associated guidance.
• Understanding of traffic signage, road safety principles and traffic regulation processes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building abilities.
• Experience using GIS software and Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities effectively.
• Degree in Civil Engineering, Traffic Engineering, Law or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

Professional and personal development

The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.

We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.

We're proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.

• 70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.

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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 the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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/