Street Lighting Manager

Tarmac; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 70 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Bonus scheme

Enhanced holiday entitlement

Contributory pension

Résumé du poste

Tarmac in London seeks an experienced Street Lighting Manager to lead and develop street lighting services across multiple contracts. You will drive safe, high-quality delivery, maintain critical accreditations, and protect revenue while growing the in-house delivery capability.

Lead operations, provide technical guidance, manage KPIs, and collaborate with commercial teams to optimise resources and performance across boroughs.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing street lighting or similar infrastructure services.
• Strong leadership capability with experience developing supervisors and teams.
• In-depth understanding of health & safety and quality standards in a live environment.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams across contracts and locations.
• Commercial awareness including estimating, programme delivery and financial performance.
• Strong stakeholder management with the ability to guide clients and internal teams.
• Proactive approach to improving operational efficiency and reducing external resource reliance.
• Commitment to maintaining accreditations and compliance.

Responsabilités

• Lead street lighting operations across multiple contracts and locations.
• Provide technical support to clients, contract leads and internal teams.
• Ensure KPIs and performance targets are met.
• Maintain HEA accreditation to enable service delivery.
• Drive health, safety and quality standards on site activities.
• Support supervisors and operational teams with leadership and development.
• Review programmes of work to optimise resources, equipment and cost.
• Support estimating activities to grow private works and future opportunities.
• Assist with payments and provide support to commercial teams including QS functions.
• Develop in-house delivery capability to reduce reliance on freelance resources.

Connaissances

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Health & safety

Commercial awareness

Programme delivery

Resource management

Description du poste

Job Introduction

We're looking for an experienced Street Lighting Manager to play a critical role in leading and developing our street lighting services across London. This is a key leadership position within the business, responsible for ensuring safe, high-quality delivery while maintaining essential industry accreditations and meeting client expectations. Operating across major London Borough contracts including Harrow, Bromley, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest, this role will be central to protecting current revenue streams, unlocking future opportunities, and strengthening our self-delivery capability.

What You'll Be Doing

As Street Lighting Manager, you will take ownership of the operational and technical delivery of street lighting services across the business. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Leading and managing street lighting operations across multiple contracts and locations
• Providing technical support to clients, contract leads, and internal teams
• Ensuring all KPIs are achieved and maintained within required performance targets
• Maintaining critical industry accreditation (including HEA) to enable continued service delivery
• Driving high standards of health & safety and quality across all site activities
• Supporting supervisors and operational teams with leadership, guidance and development
• Reviewing and optimising programmes of work to ensure efficient use of resources, equipment and commercial performance
• Supporting estimating activities to grow private works and build a strong pipeline of future opportunities
• Assisting with applications for payment and providing support to commercial teams including QS functions
• Reducing reliance on freelance resource and supply chain by developing in-house delivery capability

This role will also play a key part in ensuring client satisfaction and protecting contract extensions and long-term partnerships across London Borough clients.

What We Are Looking For

We're looking for a driven and experienced leader with strong technical and operational expertise in street lighting services. The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

• Proven experience managing street lighting or similar infrastructure services
• Strong leadership capability, with experience supporting and developing supervisors and operational teams
• In-depth understanding of health & safety and quality standards within a live operational environment
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams across different contracts and locations
• Commercial awareness, including experience supporting estimating, programme delivery and financial performance
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to provide technical guidance to clients and internal teams
• A proactive approach to improving operational efficiency and reducing reliance on external resource
• Commitment to maintaining accreditations and ensuring compliance with industry standards

You'll be someone who can balance operational delivery with strategic thinking—ensuring both immediate performance targets and long-term business growth are achieved.

Why us

In addition to this role we also offer an extensive range of career development opportunities and industry-leading rewards, incentives and benefits including:

• Bonus scheme
• Enhanced holiday entitlement
• Contributory pension scheme
• Access to the Tarmac Reward website with discounts on retailers, holidays, etc.
• Access to our Employee Assistance helpline for free and confidential advice
• Access to join our Employee Communities (employee networks) we currently have nine communities inc. (REACH) Religious, Ethnic, Cultural Heritage, LGBTQ+, Parents & carers, Ability, Wellbeing, Female voice and menopause
• Training and development opportunities

Tarmac, a CRH company, is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Job Reference tarmac/TP/39940/8196