Traffic Surveyor

This role has a starting salary of £14.90 - £15.35 per hour, inclusive of a 15% annual leave allowance.

Are you curious about how people move around Surrey?

Join our Transport Studies Survey Team as a Traffic Surveyor and help shape safer, more sustainable journeys across the county.

Our Offer to You:

• Generous annual leave allowance
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
• Carers leave and volunteering days dependant on agreed working hours
• A generous local government salary related pension
• Wellbeing and lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, and shopping
• Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
• A chance to make a real difference to the lives of our residents

About The Role

As a Traffic Surveyor with our Transport Studies Survey Team, you'll be supporting the Place directorate whose purpose is to enable safe, reliable journeys and sustainable, prosperous places across Surrey.

Your core duties in this role will include:

• Conducting a variety of traffic surveys, including: manual classified vehicle turning counts, pedestrian counts, queue length surveys, journey time, origin-destination, speed radar, roadside and bus surveys as instructed by the Survey Supervisor
• Working both independently and as part of a team to collect pedestrian, cyclist, vehicle, and passenger movement data
• Interviewing members of the public and bus passengers to gather information about travel behaviour, supporting improvements to bus routes and cycle infrastructure
• Accurately recording survey data and ensuring high standards of detail and reliability
• Adapting to both routine and ad-hoc survey assignments, which may involve early starts, late finishes, and travel across the county

This is a key role where you will contribute to ongoing monitoring and analysis projects, as well as supporting new initiatives to improve bus routes and cycle infrastructure. Your work will provide evidence for transport modelling and infrastructure improvements, helping us to shape safer, more sustainable journeys and places. The data you collect will help us make the strategic decisions that deliver tangible benefits to communities across the county.

Your Application

In order to be considered for shortlisting, your application will clearly evidence the following skills and align with our behaviours:

• Excellent time management and reliability
• Strong attention to detail to be able to accurately record information
• Ability to use initiative and a proactive approach to problem-solving
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a helpful and friendly attitude
• Good teamworking ability
• Availability for early starts and/or late finishes (typically between 7am and 7pm, however bus surveys may run between 6am and midnight

Candidates will be expected to have a valid driving licence to drive in the UK and access to a vehicle and be willing to travel across a wide geographical area. Reasonable adjustments where needed will be made for successful applicants who have a disability or long term health condition to enable them to fulfil the requirements of the job (expenses for mileage and parking can be reclaimed).

This is a rolling advert and we will be reviewing applications on a regular basis.

We look forward to receiving your application, please click on the apply online button below to submit.

Local Government Reorganisation (LGR)

Surrey County Council is undergoing Local Government Reorganisation, moving from a two-tier system to new unitary councils in April 2027. If you are employed by Surrey on 1st April 2027, your role will transfer with current terms and conditions to one of these new councils, supporting local devolution and greater powers for our communities.

Join our dynamic team and shape the future of local government. Make a lasting impact with innovative solutions and improved services for our community. Help us build a brighter future for our residents!

Our Commitment

We are a disability confident employer which means if you have shared a disability on your application form and have evidenced you meet the minimum criteria, we guarantee you an interview.

Your skills and experience truly matter to us. From application to your first day, we're committed to supporting you. We value inclusion and warmly welcome you to join and help build a workplace where everyone belongs.