Highway Scheme Manager

Newcastle City Council; Newcastle upon Tyne; Remote; GBP 48,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Flexible working

Staff discounts

Learning opportunities

Job summary

Newcastle City Council is seeking a Highway Scheme Manager to lead a range of Highways construction and maintenance projects in the city. You will oversee carriageways, footways, drainage works and related schemes, ensuring safe delivery to programme and budget.

You will support and mentor frontline staff and apprentices, ensuring compliance with policies and delivering high-quality outcomes while maintaining strong health and safety standards across the worksites.

Qualifications

• Experience of Highway Management in a civil engineering environment.
• Ability to interpret design drawings and related construction works.
• Strong knowledge of health & safety legislation and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead in safe construction of Carriageways, Footways, Drainage and related works.
• Provide a management role across Highways to deliver programmes on time and within budget.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, designers, staff and apprentices.

Skills

Highway Management

Civil Engineering

Health & Safety

Job description

Network Management and Construction

Would you like to make a real difference in the city for residents and visitors?

If you have experience of Highway Management in a civil engineering environment and Ad-Hoc Highways Maintenance, then this could be just the opportunity for you.

We want you to help us make Newcastle a great place to work, visit and live in.

What the role will involve?

You will be integral in making a positive impact to the city by leading in the safe construction of Carriageways, Footways, Flood elevation works, Drainage work and duct installation; interpreting design detailed drawings in relations to these construction works. Working closely with designers to achieve successful outcomes on all works.

You will be supporting and advising piers, colleagues, front line staff and apprentices whilst complying to Newcastle City Councils policies and procedures.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking to appoint a self-motivated and driven Highway Scheme Manager to support the delivery of a wide range of projects in Highways Capital programme, Highway Construction and Maintenance.

You will be expected to provide a Management role across Highways, ensuring services are provided professionally, to programme and within budget.

You will have the ability to interact and communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, and you will play a Lead role in ensuring productivity targets are met.

It is essential that you have a working knowledge of health & safety legislation, and excellent planning and communication skills.

What can we offer you?

If a competitive salary and pension with the option to opt in to an AVC scheme wasn’t enough you will also have

• A generous annual leave allowance.
• The option to buy additional annual leave.
• Access to family friendly policies including maternity and adoption leave, maternity support leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, special leave, leave when caring for a terminally ill dependent, leave for armed forces reservists, disability related special leave, career breaks and paid leave to support the electoral process.
• An enhanced work life balance including agile working, part-year working, compressed hours and flexi time where appropriate.
• Access to numerous salary sacrifice schemes including home electronics, car lease and gym membership.
• Access to physiotherapy, counselling services and eye tests for VDE users through our Occupational Health Service.
• Access to an extensive wellbeing programme including access to a 24-hour employee assistance programme for you and your immediate family.
• Access to Mental Health First Aiders.
• Ability to join staff network groups to meet and share information and raise awareness and include, Black and Minority Ethnic network, Disabled Employee network and LGBT+ network
• Ability to join a trade union.
• Access to a staff travel scheme.

Access to learning and development opportunities including a comprehensive corporate induction programme, access to e-learning, an annual performance appraisal, upskilling apprenticeships, access to Learning Resource Centres

A rewarding and most importantly access to a challenging career.

Additionally, we also offer you retail discounts on hundreds of the UK’s high street and online retailers including travel, dining out, mobile and broadband from the point of receiving your offer of employment.

Who we are

Newcastle is an ambitious City; it always has been. Its’ an iconic City with a rich heritage but one that also shapes the future of the region.

Here at Newcastle City Council, we have a real passion to improve the lives of residents and visitors in the city through the wide variety of essential public services we deliver and the relationships we influence.

From our city leaders to every member of our team, we’re all committed to making Newcastle a City that is vibrant and thriving.

Our values

• Proud
• Fair
• Ambitious

Why work for us

We strive to be an organisation where equality, diversity and inclusion is part of who we are and how we work and where every member of our team is treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to building an inclusive and supportive workplace where you can bring your whole self to work and succeed in being your best.

Our people deliver amazing services, initiatives and projects to benefit the lives of our residents. They also develop, manage, and maintain the City’s vital infrastructure and public spaces that our societies and communities rely on.

If you want to become an integral part of the team to make a citywide difference for our residents and visitors, then we want to hear from you.

We are committed to protecting and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is working in regulated activity. If you are successful we will undertake additional recruitment checks which will include a check to see if you have had any criminal convictions, a check of police information and we will check the barred list(s). It is a criminal offence for a barred individual to apply for a job in regulated activity.