Description:
National Highways are looking to hire an Engineering Team Manager in our Asset Needs Team for the Sout West, based at either Bristol or Exeter, as part of our Operations Directorate.
As a proven people manager, you will lead and inspire a team of engineers to identify and prioritise the need for schemes, undertake feasibility studies and develop early solutions. Working with peers in other disciplines and colleagues across our business you will contribute to our Region’s integrated forward programme and the achievement of our business objectives for Roads Periods 3 and beyond.
Using your expert engineering knowledge and experience in developing highway infrastructure improvement and renewal schemes, you and your team will provide technical advice and support to designers, project managers and spatial planners, ensuring that our schemes and those of our stakeholders and other third parties meet our operational requirements.
As the South West focal point for improvement schemes, you will work collaboratively with both internal and external partners and stakeholders. This will include working with local and national teams within National Highways, our supply chain, local authorities and customers. You will also interface with our Safety, Engineer and Standards (SES) colleagues to ensure compliance with our asset management framework, technical standards and scheme approval governance.
What you’ll be leading on
- Lead, mentor and line management of a team of highway engineers, ensuring their health, safety and wellbeing, that timely objectives are set, regular performance management reviews undertaken and appropriate succession plans put in place.
- Production and development of Asset Class Management Plans for drainage, road signs and ancillary assets.
- Identifying and prioritising 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.
- Development of the regional five-year programme for highway improvements, drainage, road signs and other ancillary assets.
- Compliance with our governance processes for renewal and improvement schemes, evidencing benefit and value for money to successfully secure funding for each stage of delivery.
- Managing the utilisation and allocation of team resources to ensure appropriate resourcing levels, including the management of outsourced work.
- Collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, partners, including our supply chain and customers, looking for opportunities for efficiencies, working closely with internal and external stakeholders to implement ideas.
To be successful
- You will be a Chartered, or Incorporated Member of the ICE, IHE, IHT with a Civil Engineering Degree, or equivalent and have extensive post-professional qualification with relevant experience to the role.
- You will have strong leadership skills and extensive experience in managing a technical team.
- You will have extensive experience of asset management decision making and governance (capital investment, lifecycle costs, value optimisation, service & availability optimisation, social & economic knowledge).
- You will have extensive experience of developing strategic management plans and tactical implementation plans
- You will have extensive experience in collaborating with internal and external stakeholders at all levels