Construction Team Leader

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

Job summary

Ringway Jacobs is seeking a Team Leader for their Construction team in Cheshire East. This role involves overseeing highways improvement projects, ensuring safety and compliance, and managing both major and minor projects. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of construction regulations and highway legislation, with a focus on operational excellence and staff safety.

Benefits

Sick Pay

Competitive salary

Opportunity to purchase extra leave

Discounts through RJ Rewards

Life Assurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Pension scheme

Qualifications

• Good knowledge of Construction, Design and Management regulations.
• Experience with Highways Drainage is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Oversee planning and delivery of highways improvement projects.
• Ensure safety of all staff and compliance with standards.
• Manage budgets and change processes for successful outcomes.

Skills

Health and Safety

Construction

Highway Legislation

Job description

Ringway Jacobs is thrilled to offer an exceptional opportunity for a Team Leader to join our Construction team in Cheshire East.

In this pivotal role, you will report directly to the Construction Manager and be responsible for overseeing the seamless planning, coordination, and delivery of a variety of highways improvement projects across the borough.

Your primary focus will be to ensure the safety of all staff, including supervisors, operatives, and supply chain partners, while maintaining a high standard of operational excellence. You’ll lead a range of activities to ensure that projects are completed in line with relevant standards, policies, and strategies.

This role involves managing both major and minor projects, ensuring full compliance with NEC contracts, as well as overseeing budgets and change processes to deliver successful outcomes.

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