Interview Flashcards
1
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Work as a team to achieve positive outcomes
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- Experience
- Internal and External
- CC3 and LTH
- SID for leading a team
2
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Commitment to CPD
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- ASDA to Travelwise to Traffic
- Level 3, HNC, HND and NVQ
- Looking at degree pre-corona
- ICE mailing lists, seminars and Traffex
3
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Monitor and Coach Staff
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- Work with junior, trainees and work experience
- Teaching systems, HS, site work, design
- Checking drawings and correspondance
- Coach and mentor within SIDs
- Check their priorities and deadlines
4
Q
Achievement of equal opportunities in employment and service delivery
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- Always consider local impact to make inclusive
- Look at inclusive mobility to ensure no undue impact
- Consultation with stakeholders and DAG
- Understanding locations and communities
- Chapeltown Road
- RE at A Level
5
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Commitment to sustainability
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- Consider local and wider impact
- Materials, reusing, transport to site, green space/planting, flora/fauna, reusing signs, impact to network and choice of transport
- NVQ in sustainable construction
6
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Contribute to initiatives to improve standards and performance
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- Helped create new standards and policy
- Assist with redrafting standards in drawings and responses
- Running correspondence sheets and providing info to staff
- SID policy
7
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Ability to take forward initiatives and policy from development to implementation
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- Have to be adaptable in local government
- Policy and initiatives constantly updated
- Changing of SID policy including teaching
- Corona virus policies
8
Q
Working knowledge of CDM
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- Joined at same time as CDM came out
- Plan out risks, get right people and info, and consult all staff about H&S
- Operate as all three parties
- Our duties (highlighting on drawings, stats, H&S plans, method statements, PPE) but it IS DUTY OF EVERYONE
- Have trained other staff for H&S
- Academic study during HND
9
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3 years in feasibility an design or construction
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- Worked in traffic for over 5 years
- Taken all size of schemes from conception to completion
- TROs, Crossings, S106, School expansion, CC3, LTH, Movement orders
- Initial investigation (levelling, collating evidence)
- Pre design (iterative design, consultation, SA)
- Design (detail, BoQ, H&S documentation
- Building (spray out, instruct contractors)
- Post (snagging, SA and monitoring)
- SA give unique understanding into feasibility
- Early warnings, Compensation, defects)
- collaborative working
10
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Well developed computer skills
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- 5 years mean I’m efficient and professional
- Experience with AutoCAD, KeyLINES, KeySIGNS, AutoTRACK to produce professional drawings
- Experience with ArcGIS like Parkmap and Signplot
- Supplemented by academic work (including manual)
- Microsoft packages INCLUDING PROJECT
- Use of LCC systems (Insight)
11
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Experience of delivery and managing schemes to meet customer needs using scheme management techniques and reporting reccomendations
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- Every scheme I consult with statutory, ES, councillors MPs and the public
- Responsible for logging and responding to them
- Language is very important (jargon depending on consultee)
- Listening to feedback is very important to ensure compliance acceptance and benefit (avoiding negative perceptions)
- Reported recommendations officially at HB (obj. reports)
- Don’t lose sight of core objectives of work but always listen and try help
12
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Appreciation of the public sector and its relationship with private and third
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- Worked closely with both to the benefit of all
- Private sector ensures we’re cost effective, high quality and helps avoid conflict with open conversations
- Third sector is medium party and helps get public on board
- Good perceptions
13
Q
Interpret corporate visions and values and put into practice
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- Changes a lot in political landscape
- Sustainable travel increasingly important (national and local)
- Corona has pushed this with immediate change to our outlook
- New SID policy including teaching to others
- Climate emergency changed how we work and what we do
14
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Communicate key issues clearly and succinctly both verbally and in writing
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- Works closely with members of the public all career
- Always adapt how I speak write to suit audience (jargon)
- Attended varying size meetings with all different parties (1to1, events and PC/TC)
- Contractors important to convey technical information clearly and contractual information for legal reasons
- Writing HB reports and presenting them need to be clear
- MOP and cllrs clear and deep understanding
- Checking drawings and correspondence of staff
- Academic writing
15
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Ability to resolve conflict
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- Conflict naturally occurs but can be avoided
- Internal (management, grievance, mediation, disciplinary, improving performace)
- Contractor (Conversation, site meetings, NEC4 framework to avoid and resolve, use Senior Representatives, Mediation and adjudication. Early warnings, programme changes AVOID FORMAL
- MOP (open and honest about objectives, stage of complaints and ombudsman, Objection report)
