Highways Maintenance Manager

JR United Kingdom; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company in the highways maintenance industry as a Highways Maintenance Manager. This contract role offers the opportunity to lead operations that enhance the quality of life in Greater London. You will manage safety and environmental practices while implementing innovative strategies to improve highway services. Collaborating with local authorities and stakeholders, you will drive efficiency and sustainability initiatives. If you are a people-oriented leader passionate about making a difference in urban infrastructure, this is the role for you!

Qualifications

• Experience in highways maintenance or related field, ideally in management.
• Good understanding of sustainability impacts in highway services.

Responsibilities

• Manage health, safety, and environmental matters in highway maintenance.
• Develop and implement strategies for highway maintenance service.

Skills

Highways Maintenance

Team Leadership

Highway Asset Management Systems

Sustainability Knowledge

Procedure Writing

Education

Relevant Degree or Equivalent

Job description

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On behalf of a market leader in the highways term maintenance industry, we are looking to onboard an Highways Maintenance Manager. This is a contract role based in Belvedere South-East London.

Your new company

With 40 years of experience in the industry, this company provides award winning civil engineering programmes and highway services to a number of public sector clients. Working alongside local authorities, they aim to create communities where people want to live, work, and play.

Your new role

You will be tasked with ensuring best practise operations and maintenance activities are carried out, helping to raise the quality of life for those working and living or visiting London. You will be responsible for implementing changes to ensure efficiencies, working alongside leadership that gets out of the way and lets you get on with it. You will:

• Manage operational health, safety and environmental matters and promote improvements
• Develop, implement and improvement the Plans and Strategies associated with the highway maintenance service in London
• Represent the Highway Service at meetings with Transport for London / London Borough Clients and key stakeholder groups such as local businesses, neighbouring Authorities and public inquiries etc.
• Ensure compliance with the business and Authority’s policies and strategies
• Ensure that Risk Assessments, Method Statements and COSHH Assessments are carried out in a timely way and that any improvement activities are fully resourced to deliver best value
• Develop, promote and oversee recycling activities and carbon and water reduction targets
• Assist with the formulating and reviewing of appropriate recruitment and training strategies
• Work with the HSE team under CDM to ensure safe construction and maintenance.

About you

This is a diverse role so the ability to wear many hats is key, you will be joining a team with clear goals and direction who strives for continual improvement. You will be a people person who is capable of engaging and motivating a team. You will help to bring value to the team by ticking off some of the below:

• Experience of highways maintenance or a related field, ideally in a team leadership / management role
• Good working knowledge of highway asset management systems
• Good understanding of sustainability and carbon impacts of highway service
• Competence in writing procedures and setting up systems which reflect and promote the best practices of customer care, quality, value for money, continuous improvement, and equality of opportunity in service delivery.

If you fit the above or are keen to find out more, get in touch with us at the office or apply today!