Job Introduction
Are you passionate about improving road safety for the people of Staffordshire?
If so, it’s an exciting time to join our Highways Team here at Staffordshire County Council.
Our vision is to help Staffordshire’s economy grow, so that everyone has the opportunity of a good job and good prospects in a beautiful, safe, accessible, vibrant, cultural, prosperous, business friendly and sustainable county.
Staffordshire has great places and great connections, boasting the beautiful rural landscape of a shire county together with excellent transport links to major destinations across the country.
We are committed to fixing more roads and improving transport and digital connections and we are making significant investment into our network. To ensure we can deliver our ambitious highways transformation we are looking to grow our team of highway engineering professionals and develop talent for the future.
Main Responsibility
This technical role sits within a team of road safety professionals and as the responsibility of managing our injury collision dataset and fulfilling our statutory duties to analyse road safety data to inform our casualty reduction engineering functions.
You will also:
- Use specialist mapping software to study and analyse Police reports of personal injury collisions.
- Identify data patterns and trends to establish appropriate road safety interventions and monitor their delivery.
- respond to queries and requests for collision data and statistics through the development and supply of data reports, technical drawings and statistical analysis.
The Ideal Candidate
You will:
- have the education or relevant experience to demonstrate excellent data interpretation and analytical skills.
- have excellent attention to detail with the ability to identify patterns and trends in complex data.
- be an exceptional team player and influencer, working alongside other highways professionals to coordinate and plan a successful operation.
- be strategically minded with excellent organisational and planning skills that will be necessary to deliver an annual suite of analytical reports.
- have confidence to work independently and under the direction of the Road Safety Manager to take ownership of the future development of this statutory and essential work area.
Please note we reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closing date.
For further information about the role please contact Stephen Mottram, Road Safety Manager at: stephen.mottram@staffordshire.gov.uk
About Staffordshire County Council
We are no ordinary county council:
Our Values:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.
Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.
We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.
Our benefits:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire
Our recruitment process:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities
As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
