Highways Maintenance Supervisor

Costain Group; Ferryhill; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A national highway maintenance contractor seeks a Works Supervisor for a joint venture in the UK. This role involves supervising a team of highway operatives, planning maintenance activities, and engaging with the public and clients. The successful candidate will manage various schedule patterns, ensuring timely delivery of essential services to the road network. Shift work, antisocial hours, and on-call commitments are required. Previous team management experience is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing teams in a highway maintenance environment.
• Strong planning and organization skills with a focus on safety.
• Ability to handle public inquiries and engage with clients.

Responsibilities

• Provide line management and supervision to a team of team leaders.
• Plan and organize maintenance activities across the Area 14 network.
• Address public inquiries and support client engagement.

Skills

Team management

Planning and organization

Incident response

Job description

CHC project is a joint venture (JV) carrying out the maintenance and response services in relation to the Strategic Road Network in National Highways Area 14 network. This contract is for the provision of cyclic maintenance, reactive maintenance, incident response and severe weather response.

As a works supervisor you will provide line management and supervision to a team of highway team leaders operatives and have a maximum of 4 direct reports at any given time. You will oversee a team of up to 14 people across various shift patterns to assure the delivery of all required services of highway maintenance across the Area 14 Network under the National Highways Maintenance & Response Contract.

You will be responsible for planning, preparation and organization of the timely and quality delivery of construction and maintenance activities across the Area 14 network, safely and to budget. You will also be responsible for the management of your allocated team and the associated performance, development and people administration activities (as outlined below).

As a works manager you will also be required to address issues or queries from members of the public whilst delivering services and support the wider CHC team in recording works undertaken, any changes or disruption encountered. You may also be asked to support in Client engagement for allocated works.

You will be part of a team of 11 works supervisors and wider team of approx. 60 persons delivering these essential services to the road network across the North East.

This role will require shift working, antisocial hours and some on call commitments as part of a standard working pattern.