Engineering Team Manager

Here at National Highways, we currently have an opportunity for an Engineering Team Manager to join the Southeast region Operations team. Within this role, you will be responsible for the management of Pavement asset to improve the safety and reliability of our network.

This role is based at either Basingstoke or Maidstone office.

Please note that you will be required to drive as part of your role, and you will need to have no more than 3 points to be considered for this position and during employment.

You will:

Lead, mentor and line manage a team of engineers and technicians, ensuring their health, safety and wellbeing, that timely objectives are set, regular performance management reviews undertaken and appropriate succession plans put in place.

Produce and develop the regional Forward Program and Asset Management Plans for the Pavement asset.

Identify and prioritise maintenance, renewal and improvement needs, undertaking studies, optioneering and preliminary designs, including compiling relevant documents, evidence and options for value management, taking into account standards, policies, strategies, industry innovations, delivery feasibility and cost.

Comply with our governance processes for renewal and improvement schemes, evidencing benefit and value for money to successfully secure funding.

Manage the utilisation and allocation of team resources to ensure appropriate resourcing levels, including the management of outsourced work.

Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, partners, including our supply chain and customers.

Continuously identify opportunities for efficiencies, working closely with stakeholders to implement ideas.

You will either be a Chartered or Incorporated Member of an appropriate professional body, have a relevant Degree, or have extensive relevant experience to the role.

You will have extensive experience of asset management decision making (capital investment, lifecycle costs, value optimisation, service & availability optimisation, social & economic knowledge)

Strong knowledge and understanding of relevant technical standards, asset policies, asset operation and maintenance requirements.

Good knowledge of Health & Safety requirements and CDM regulations.

Strong leadership and communication skills, with extensive experience managing technical teams, building complex stakeholder relationships, and influencing others to achieve positive outcomes

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England’s motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.

We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it – then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.

A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities

Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme

Community friendly – offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year

If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:

Right to work check

3 year employment history references

DBS criminal record check

Social media and adverse journalism check

Driving licence check (if applicable)

Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)

Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)

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