Engineering Team Manager

National Highways; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways is seeking an Engineering Team Manager in the Southeast region to lead a team of engineers and technicians focused on pavement asset management, safety, and reliability. The role involves developing regional plans, prioritising works, and ensuring governance and value-for-money in funding approvals.

The position is based at either Basingstoke or Maidstone, with required driving for the role and only candidates with ≤3 points on their license considered.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead and develop technical teams.
• Strong experience in asset management decision making and lifecycle cost analysis.
• Experience building and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and line manage engineers and technicians with focus on safety and performance.
• Develop regional Forward Program and Asset Management Plans for Pavement assets.
• Identify maintenance, renewal and improvement needs with option studies and cost considerations.
• Govern renewal and improvement schemes with evidence of value for money to secure funding.
• Manage team resources and outsourced work to ensure proper resourcing.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and supply chain to drive efficiencies and improvements.

Skills

Leadership

Asset management

Stakeholder management

Team management

Education

Degree

Professional body membership

Job description

About the job

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.

About you.

• 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

About us.

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.