Senior Highway Safety & Community Projects Lead

Kirklees Metropolitan Council; Kirklees; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Excellent pension scheme

Career development

Flexible working

Family friendly policies

Job summary

Kirklees Metropolitan Council is seeking a role within the Community Projects team to manage traffic and highway safety initiatives across Kirklees. The position emphasizes delivering Traffic Regulation Orders, working with councillors and the public to improve road safety for all users, including vulnerable groups.

The team operates in a busy environment with varied projects, offering hybrid working, ongoing training, and a supportive culture.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a small team and guiding junior officers on minor traffic schemes.
• Ability to prioritise competing workloads.
• Proven experience handling challenging customers with a strong customer focus.
• Ability to investigate and respond to requests from the public, councillors and MPs with solutions.
• Ability to operate effectively in a political environment.
• Knowledge of Traffic Regulation Orders processing and where they are used.
• Ability to consult with a wide range of people.
• Ability to assess potential housing impacts on the Highway Network.

Responsibilities

• No explicit responsibilities listed beyond the role requirements in the HTML.

Skills

Team management

Prioritise workloads

Customer focus

Investigate and respond

Consultation with varied stakeholders

Political environment experience

Traffic Regulations Orders processing

Housing impact assessment

Job description

Kirklees Metropolitan Council is seeking a role within the Community Projects team to manage traffic and highway safety initiatives across Kirklees. The position emphasizes delivering Traffic Regulation Orders, working with councillors and the public to improve road safety for all users, including vulnerable groups.

The team operates in a busy environment with varied projects, offering hybrid working, ongoing training, and a supportive culture.