Construction Team Leader

Essex Highways; Crewe; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading highways service provider in the UK seeks a proactive Team Leader for their Construction team in Cheshire East. This position involves overseeing end-to-end highways improvement projects, managing budgets, ensuring compliance with NEC contracts, and leading various teams to uphold safety and quality standards.

Benefits

Sick Pay

Opportunity to purchase extra leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Discounts through RJ Rewards

Qualifications

• Good knowledge of Health and Safety regulations.
• Experience in project delivery and resource management.
• Ability to manage self-priorities and workloads.

Responsibilities

• Supervise self-delivery and SCP gangs to ensure safety standards.
• Manage project budgets and ensure timely delivery.
• Lead the planning and execution of highways improvement projects.

Skills

Project Management

Health and Safety Knowledge

Team Leadership

Communication

Education

NEC Contract Knowledge

Experience in Highways Drainage (desirable)

Job description

Ringway Jacobs is offering an exciting opportunity for a proactive and skilled Team Leader to join the Construction team in Cheshire East.

As a key member of the team, you will report directly to the Construction Manager, overseeing the planning, coordination, and successful delivery of end-to-end highways improvement projects across the borough.

This role is vital in ensuring that supervisors, operatives, and supply chain partners are supported and empowered to carry out their work safely. You will lead a variety of activities, ensuring that all operational elements meet the required standards and align with the service’s policies and strategies.

Your responsibilities will include managing both major and minor projects, ensuring strict adherence to NEC contracts, and overseeing budgets and change management processes.

The Role

• Carry out supervision of both self-delivery and SCP gangs to ensure that works are carried out safely and to the highest standard
• Take ownership of recourse to ensure programmes are delivered to key milestones across the contract and to financial budgets
• Take ownership of delivery to ensure work is carried out in accordance with Ringway Jacobs specifications and procedures
• Ability to self-manage priorities and workload using agile/mobile working across the Cheshire East
• Communicate daily with the drainage support team

About You

• Good knowledge and application of design procedures, guidance and standards and good practice documents
• Good knowledge of Construction, Design and Management regulations and application of Health and Safety legislation
• Good Knowledge of and application of Highway Legislation
• Previous experience of working with Highways Drainage is desirable but not essential

At Ringway Jacobs we recognise that our people make the difference, and in order to do what we do well, particular care is taken in nurturing and investing in our people. That’s why you will always be given the opportunity to utilise your expertise and develop your career.

Ringway Jacobs recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles. We therefore welcome applications from people looking for an alternative working pattern e.g. part-time hours, job share etc. Please let us know on your CV or cover letter if this is what you are looking for.

In return for your hard work you will receive:
- Sick Pay
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to purchase up to 5 days extra leave
- A variety of discounts through our “RJ Rewards” app, including restaurants, holidays, days out etc
- Life Assurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension scheme

The Company

We are Ringway Jacobs, a leading highways service provider working with local authorities across the UK. Formed in 2005, specifically to provide road network management solutions to local government, our unique blend of engineering capability, innovation and customer care make us the best in class. We support over 10,000 miles of highways, 10,000 miles of footway, almost 7,800 miles of public rights of way and 242,000 street lights. We excel in delivering safe, sustainable service excellence, through our passion, integrity and collaborative culture.

Ringway Jacobs is an equal opportunities employer. We wish to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all our employees.

If you require further details, please contact our Recruitment Team on 0330 311 2502 or e-mail them on [e-mail] , or click on the “Apply Now” button. This will take you to a login page, where you will need to create an account to continue your application. Once you have created an account you will be able to see where your application is up to and apply for other opportunities within Ringway Jacobs.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.

We have a dedicated recruitment team and politely request that agencies refrain from contacting anyone across our businesses with regards to speculative CV’s or offering to assist with our vacancies, thank you.

Benefits

At Ringway Jacobs we recognise that our people make the difference, and in order to do what we do well, particular care is taken in nurturing and investing in our people. That’s why you will always be given the opportunity to utilise your expertise and develop your career.

Ringway Jacobs recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles. We therefore welcome applications from people looking for an alternative working pattern e.g. part-time hours, job share etc. Please let us know on your CV or cover letter if this is what you are looking for.

In return for your hard work you will receive:
- Sick Pay
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to purchase up to 5 days extra leave
- A variety of discounts through our “RJ Rewards” app, including restaurants, holidays, days out etc
- Life Assurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension scheme

The Company

We are Ringway Jacobs, a leading highways service provider working with local authorities across the UK. Formed in 2005, specifically to provide road network management solutions to local government, our unique blend of engineering capability, innovation and customer care make us the best in class. We support over 10,000 miles of highways, 10,000 miles of footway, almost 7,800 miles of public rights of way and 242,000 street lights. We excel in delivering safe, sustainable service excellence, through our passion, integrity and collaborative culture.

Ringway Jacobs is an equal opportunities employer. We wish to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all our employees.

If you require further details, please contact our Recruitment Team on 0330 311 2502 or e-mail them on [e-mail] , or click on the “Apply Now” button. This will take you to a login page, where you will need to create an account to continue your application. Once you have created an account you will be able to see where your application is up to and apply for other opportunities within Ringway Jacobs.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.

We have a dedicated recruitment team and politely request that agencies refrain from contacting anyone across our businesses with regards to speculative CV’s or offering to assist with our vacancies, thank you.

Please click on the following link for more information on this role: Job Description