Engineering Team Manager - National Highways

Polluxa, Inc.; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways is seeking an Engineering Team Manager to lead a Pavement asset team in the Southeast, based at either Basingstoke or Maidstone offices. You will drive health, safety and performance reviews while delivering the regional Forward Programme and Asset Management Plans for Pavement assets.

The role requires Chartered/Incorporated membership or a relevant degree with deep asset-management knowledge and governance to secure funding.

Qualifications

• You will be a Chartered or Incorporated member, or have a relevant degree and extensive experience.
• Experience in asset management decision making (capital investment, lifecycle costs, value optimisation).
• Strong knowledge of technical standards, asset policies, operation and maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and line manage engineers and technicians, ensuring health, safety and wellbeing, with performance reviews.
• Produce regional Forward Program and Asset Management Plans for the Pavement asset.
• Identify and prioritise maintenance, renewal and improvement needs with option studies and cost considerations.
• Comply with governance processes for renewal schemes and evidence value for money to secure funding.
• Manage resources including outsourced work and allocation of team bandwidth.
• Collaborate with internal/external stakeholders and supply chain to deliver objectives.

Skills

Team leadership

Performance management

Stakeholder collaboration

Asset management

Value for money

Optioneering

Education

Chartered/ Incorporated membership

Relevant degree

Job description

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.

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.