Environment Team Manager

National Highways; Maidstone; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure organization is seeking an Environment Team Manager in Maidstone. You will lead a team of specialists, ensuring sustainable practices in road management and maintenance. Candidates should have an environmental degree or equivalent experience along with strong leadership and communication skills. Join us to make a significant impact on the Strategic Road Network.

Qualifications

• Degree in environmental discipline or equivalent experience with full membership of a recognized institute.
• Strong understanding of environmental standards and CDM 2015 regulations.
• Proven track record in developing environmental asset management plans.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop a team of environmental specialists.
• Act as the regional focal point for environmental requirements and impacts.
• Ensure environmental considerations are embedded in forward programmes and plans.

Skills

Environmental standards knowledge

Communication skills

Team leadership

Environmental asset management

Education

Degree in environmental discipline or equivalent experience

Job description

About the job

Are you passionate about protecting and enhancing the environment to make a real impact on our roads? We’re looking for an Environment Team Manager to join our team in the South East at National Highways.

This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the environmental future of the Strategic Road Network, ensuring our projects and maintenance activities are sustainable, compliant, and forward‑thinking. You’ll play a key role in delivering our environmental priorities through:

• Managing and developing a team of environmental specialists, supporting their growth and performance.
• Acting as the regional focal point for environmental requirements, impacts, and needs.
• Ensuring environmental considerations are embedded in forward programmes and maintenance plans.
• Setting direction for inspections and maintenance regimes to ensure compliance with standards.
• Maintaining accurate environmental asset data and systems and driving development and implementation of best practice processes.

The role can be based at any of our South East offices (Maidstone, Basingstoke or Guildford) on a hybrid basis.

You will be required to drive as part of your role and you will need to have a full driving licence, with no more than 3 points, to be considered for this position.

About you.

• A degree in an environmental discipline (or equivalent) or substantial relevant experience in the field, along with full membership of a recognized environmental professional institute (e.g., CIEEM).
• Strong understanding of environmental standards, policies, and CDM 2015 regulations.
• Proven track record of developing environmental asset management plans and asset management decision making.
• Proven experience in leading teams in a complex service delivery environment.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical information to a variety of audiences.

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.