Lighting Engineering Team Manager

Medirest Signature; Bedford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A national infrastructure company seeks a Lighting Engineering Team Manager to lead a team of engineers in managing asset needs for highway improvements. The successful candidate will have a background in civil engineering, strong leadership skills, and experience adhering to industry standards, all while contributing to the delivery of safer roads.

Qualifications

• Chartered Engineer with relevant experience or near Chartered Engineer.
• Knowledge of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) standards.
• Good knowledge of CDM 2015.

Responsibilities

• Manage activities and resources for asset management.
• Provide leadership and performance reviews for engineering team.
• Ensure governance for asset needs identification and prioritisation.

Skills

Leadership

Commercial acumen

Technical expertise

Education

Civil Engineering Degree or HND

Job description

About the job.

National Highways have an exciting opportunity for a Lighting Engineering Team Manager to join our team in the East region. The Engineering Team Manager will manage the activities and resources involved in the identification of asset needs and lead a team of engineers in identifying and prioritising asset needs and developing early scheme solutions for asset renewal and improvement.

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.

• Provide leadership, direction and line management for a team of specialist engineers, ensuring timely setting of objectives, performance management reviews and development of appropriate succession and development plans.
• Manage the utilisation and allocation of team resources to ensure appropriate resourcing levels for all the activities in scope, including providing technical support for Project Managers in the scheme design and delivery process.
• Be the asset owner for the relevant asset class, ensuring asset specific management plans and asset management decisions adhere to defined policies and standards, provide value for money and maximise contribution to the delivery of business objectives.
• Ensure that all asset needs are identified, prioritised and managed in accordance with required governance and to achieve business objectives.
• Act as the Region's focal point and provide technical expertise in the identification and prioritisation of asset specific needs, renewal and improvement option evaluation and selection, and development of early solutions.

About you.

• A Chartered Engineer with appropriate experience, or an Incorporated Engineer/near Chartered Engineer with extensive relevant experience
• Civil Engineering Degree, or HND with relevant experience, or equivalent.
• Good commercial and financial acumen, including budget management
• Knowledge of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) standards and their application on the highways network
• Good knowledge of CDM 2015

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.