Senior Streetworks Compliance Officer

Overview

We’re looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Streetworks Compliance Officer to play a key role in ensuring the safe, efficient and compliant delivery of works on Buckinghamshire’s highway network. If you’re passionate about high standards, confident in interpreting legislation, and skilled at building strong relationships across partners and utilities, this is an excellent opportunity to make a real impact.

About us

Buckinghamshire Council is a relatively new organisation that combines the strengths and expertise of the previous five councils in the county to create positive change for local people, communities, and businesses. We are firmly focused on the future and have made a clear commitment to serve residents better and to provide stronger representation for Buckinghamshire, both locally and nationally. 

Buckinghamshire Council’s Highways Services plays a vital role in supporting our communities, keeping the county moving and ensuring our transport network is safe, resilient and well‑managed. We’re ambitious, collaborative and committed to continuous improvement. Joining our Highways & Technical Services team means contributing to essential public services and working with a range of internal and external partners to deliver positive outcomes for residents, businesses and road users.

As part of our ambition to deliver the very best highways service for Buckinghamshire, we have recently reshaped our service, creating a stronger, more resilient and forward‑looking structure. This transformation reflects both local priorities and significant national developments in the sector. With new initiatives emerging, including the introduction of Lane Rental and wider changes to streetworks and network management, we are now investing in a range of new and exciting roles that will help us meet the needs of our communities today and into the future. These posts offer a genuine opportunity to shape how we manage and improve our network, drive innovation, and ensure we continue to deliver a high‑quality, safe and efficient highway network.

About the role

As a Senior Streetworks Compliance Officer, you will lead a team responsible for auditing, monitoring and enforcing compliance of works promoters across the public highway. You will oversee complex investigations, negotiate charges, provide professional advice, and represent the Council in both internal forums and legal proceedings when required.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, plan and organise a compliance team to ensure adherence to the Council’s Lane Rental and Permit Scheme.
• Monitor and negotiate streetworks charges, including FPNs, S74s, sample inspections, permits, defects and coring.
• Carry out audits, investigations and performance reviews with utility companies and works promoters.
• Provide specialist advice and guidance to internal teams, external stakeholders and partners.
• Support service planning, performance monitoring, and development of policies, procedures and best practice.
• Manage the Council’s coring programme and oversee the co‑ordination, testing and charging of reinstatements.
• Lead specialist projects and improvement initiatives, including those using digital tools such as Power BI and Power Automate.
• Build strong working relationships, promoting best practice and supporting effective stakeholder engagement.
• Prepare reports, cases and evidence, including representing the Council as an expert witness in court.
• Line manage up to four staff members, including performance reviews, mentoring and workload coordination.

About you

You are an experienced compliance professional with a background in Streetworks or a related regulatory environment. You bring substantial expertise in applying legislation such as the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 and the Traffic Management Act 2004, and you can confidently interpret codes of practice, statutory requirements and industry standards.

You have a proven track record of leading and coordinating teams, managing complex caseloads and overseeing compliance activities to a high standard. You are skilled in undertaking investigations, analysing detailed evidence and preparing clear reports.

You are an effective communicator able to negotiate, influence and build constructive relationships with utility companies, internal services, partners and members of the public. You can manage contentious issues with confidence, resolve escalated queries and represent the service in professional or legal settings when required.

You are highly organised, able to manage competing priorities, and comfortable working both strategically and operationally. You use data and digital systems effectively, including specialist Streetworks platforms and tools such as Power BI or automation systems, to support decision‑making, reporting and service improvement.

You demonstrate sound judgement, integrity and a commitment to high standards. You are proactive, solution‑focused and able to contribute to policy development, service planning and the continuous improvement of Streetworks compliance functions.

Other information

For further information on this role please see the attached job summary.

The postholder will be expected to be in the office at least two days a week.

Closing date: 19^th March 2026

Interview date:  Week commencing 30^th March 2026.

Interview-type: In person

If you would like to have an informal conversation with the recruiting manager, please contact: Mark Cox Lane Rental and Compliance Team Leader - [email protected]

This post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent cautions and/or unspent convictions

For further information on how long it takes for cautions and convictions cautions to become spent, please refer to our guide on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (updated 2023) | Nacro

We understand that candidates may use AI tools to assist with their applications. While we welcome innovation, we expect all submissions to reflect your own experience, skills, and achievements accurately. Please ensure your application is truthful and demonstrates your personal capabilities, as this will be assessed during the selection process.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.

Our values and culture

We have a set of values, which our employees have chosen, that represent what we are – Proud, Ambitious, Collaborative and Trustworthy.

By joining Buckinghamshire Council, you can expect:

• a fair and inclusive culture
• the chance to really make a difference to those around you
• health and well-being initiatives including an Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and mindfulness workshops
• a unified voice through our Employee Representative Group
• ongoing support, and the opportunity to develop and progress in your career with us
• opportunities to take part in fun activities such as fundraising and social events

At Buckinghamshire Council, we know that our biggest strength comes from the people that work for us, and that’s why we’re working hard to ensure we continue to be an accessible and inclusive organisation.

From dedicated staff networks overseen by our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Steering Group, to proudly standing as a Disability Confident employer, it’s important to us that all our colleagues feel engaged, listened to, and valued. Our offer of flexible working empowers a productive and happy workforce and allows employees to combine work with other responsibilities and commitments.

We believe our workforce should reflect the diverse communities we service in Buckinghamshire, and are looking for like-minded individuals to join us in promoting equality, fairness, and inclusion for everyone.

About the Business Unit

Our Communities directorate works across the county to deliver a number of the key customer-facing services that our residents, businesses and visitors rely on every day. 

This directorate includes a wide range of services, including:

• collecting and disposing of waste and recycling
• maintaining our roads and Rights of Way network and parking
• ensuring the delivery of school transport, and supporting sustainable travel including public bus services and School Crossing Patrollers
• managing Country Parks
• leisure facilities, museums, theatres and libraries, as well as developing our Cultural Strategy
• Licensing, Environmental Health and Trading Standards
• Cemeteries and Crematoria

The customer is central to how we develop and deliver all of these services, which help promote our rich and vibrant culture and special environment. 

We are looking for enthusiastic, ambitious and committed individuals to join our team and help us to continue to make Buckinghamshire a great place to live, work and visit. This is an exciting time for us as we bring together the services previously run by five separate councils before Buckinghamshire Council was created. Whilst making major changes to contracts affecting residents across Bucks, we continue to focus on delivering great customer service. You will join us on our journey of continuous improvement - whether that’s through developing strategies and ways of working or delivering services on the ground, every person in Communities is a valued member of the team.

We recognise and reward you

Hard work and success deserves recognition. That’s why we pride ourselves on the benefits we give our people. We actively encourage a good work-life balance and promote flexible and agile working arrangements. We provide discounts on various Cafés, restaurants, shops and auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme. In addition to the opportunity to gain membership to Costco, we have discounted gym memberships, travel discounts with Arriva and much more.

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