Senior Inspection Officer

FTC - 12 Months

Grade C - £35,412 - £44,075

Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Equal Pay Programme

Working 36.5 hours per week

Are you passionate about maintaining high standards across our city’s highway network?

Do you have an eye for detail, strong analytical skills, and the confidence to hold service providers to account?

If so, we’d love to hear from you.

We are recruiting for a Senior Inspection Officers on Fixed Term Contract (12 months) to help ensure our highway infrastructure is maintained to the highest technical, legal, and safety standards.

About the Role

As a Senior Inspection and Enforcement Officer, you will play a key role in monitoring, auditing, and verifying the performance of service providers responsible for delivering highway maintenance and related services.

Reporting to the Principal Performance Officer, you will deliver a programme of planned and ad hoc inspections, ensuring that contractual obligations are met and that all work complies with required standards, legislation, and council policies.

This is a varied and hands‑on role that directly supports the effective management of the city’s highway network.

Key Responsibilities

You will:

Conduct inspections and audits to assess service provider performance against contractual, technical, and legal requirements.
Deliver both scheduled and ad hoc inspections, providing clear, balanced, and evidence‑based performance assessments.
Record all findings accurately using approved systems and equipment, ensuring full auditability.
Maintain strong working knowledge of highway standards, legislation and relevant Council policies
Work collaboratively across internal teams and with external service providers.
Uphold the Council’s Equal Opportunities policies in all aspects of your work.

About You

You will hold a relevant qualification of significant experience in:

Experience auditing or verifying service delivery (highways experience ideal)
Understanding of statutory highway obligations and PFI contract principles
LANTRA trained
Strong communication and relationship‑building skills
Ability to analyse technical and performance data
Confident IT user
Commitment to excellent customer care and equality in service delivery

If you’re detail‑driven, confident in the field, and ready to help uphold high standards across our highway network, we’d love to hear from you.

Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application, this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached.

Job Description and Person Specification

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

For any informal enquires please contact the Resourcing Team <Resourcing@birmingham.gov.uk>

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed.

Birmingham City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our citizens and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. You can view our Corporate Safeguarding Policy | Birmingham City Council here.

Sponsorship is not available for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK that does not require employer sponsorship for the duration of the appointment.