Assistant Traffic Order Officer Contract

Assistant Traffic Order Officer
Lambeth
Full-time contract
4-Month contract
£22/Hour

Responsibilities:

• To support, assist and deputise for the Senior Traffic Orders Officer in preparing all highway-related legal orders and notices required by the Council and by others
• To keep up to date the definitive database of Orders and Notices relating to the Council’s highway network and to respond to service requests relating to this
• To invoice third parties for services rendered in relation to traffic orders and notices
• Respond to all the Traffic Orders team’s service requests and enquiries promptly, escalating if outside post-holder’s area of responsibility.
• After undertaking any necessary research, write first drafts for any highway-related legal orders and public notices requested by the Council or by others
• Ensure the accuracy and comprehensiveness of all definitions of restriction and prohibition in draft orders, using maps and diagrams.
• Circulate draft proposals to all statutory consultees in advance of publication, recording and communicating any responses prior to final draft
• Prepare documentation for public consultation, including arranging for publication of the statutory notices in the London Gazette and local press and preparing on-site notices, ensuring full compliance with The Local Authorities’ Traffic Orders (Procedure) (England and Wales) Regulations 1996
• Make deposited documents available for public inspection, ensuring that these can be accessed during normal working hours at the address stated on the order/notice for not less than six weeks after the Order was made.
• Instruct the appropriate Street Works Inspectors on the placing, checking and removal of on-site notices, securing and filing a Certificate of Posting upon removal. If no Street Inspector is available attend site to display notice.

For more information please call Tom on 0161 667 0020 or email