Community Highways Assistant Manager

Staffordshire County Council; Lichfield; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Staffordshire County Council's Highways Team is expanding its Community Highways capability and looking for a highway professional to work across Gailey and Lichfield depots with flexible working arrangements.

You will provide leadership to deliver local highway services, respond to enquiries, and guide improvements within budget and statutory constraints, while prioritising community needs. Interviews are scheduled week starting 07 September 2026.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in the delivery of highway services.
• knowledge of highway related legislation, regulations, and best practice.
• Excellent relationship management skills with experience of working and negotiating with community representatives and delivery partners.
• ability to manage a complex workload and respond flexibly to changing circumstances.

Responsibilities

• provide management support to ensure a community-based approach to the delivery of the highway service, improving elected member and community satisfaction.
• respond to complex highway enquiries and providing expert advice and guidance on what local highway improvements can be achieved within budgetary, best practice and legislative constraints.
• provide a local focus for all highway activity within a geographical area, identifying and collating priorities against a complex criteria, and commissioning delivery to ensure contract compliance, quality and value for money

Job description

It's an exciting time to join our Highways Team here at Staffordshire County Council.

Our vision is to help Staffordshire's economy grow, so that everyone has the opportunity of a good job and good prospects in a beautiful, safe, accessible, vibrant, cultural, prosperous, business friendly and sustainable county.

Staffordshire has great places and great connections, boasting the beautiful rural landscape of a shire county together with excellent transport links to major destinations across the country.

We are committed to fixing more roads and improving transport and digital connections and we are making significant investment into our network. To ensure we can deliver our ambitious Highways Transformation we are looking to grow our team of highway engineering professionals and develop talent for the future.

Our Community Highways team ensure local concerns are prioritised and addressed alongside strategic programmes of highway works - acting as highway ambassadors within communities and as advocates for local communities within the wider service.

We have 1 post available, working across two highway depots including Gailey and Lichfield, flexible working arrangements are available.

Main Responsibilities

In this role you will:

• provide management support to ensure a community-based approach to the delivery of the highway service, improving elected member and community satisfaction.
• respond to complex highway enquiries and providing expert advice and guidance on what local highway improvements can be achieved within budgetary, best practice and legislative constraints.
• provide a local focus for all highway activity within a geographical area, identifying and collating priorities against a complex criteria, and commissioning delivery to ensure contract compliance, quality and value for money

The Ideal Candidate

it is essential you have:

• Significant experience in the delivery of highway services
• knowledge of highway related legislation, regulations, and best practice.
• Excellent relationship management skills with experience of working and negotiating in both community representatives and delivery partners.
• ability to manage a complex workload and respond flexibly to changing circumstances.

Please note we reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closing date.

Interviews will be held during the week starting 07 September 2026.

For further information about the role please contact Community Highway Managers: Mark Keeling (Gailey) [e-mail] or Garry Hunt(Lichfield) [e-mail]

Our Recruitment Process:

We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please note: The minimum essential criteria in the ideal candidate section detailed above will be used if you are applying under one of our Interview Guarantee Schemes, detailed below.

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as yourapplication meets the minimum criteria for the post.