Streetworks Manager

Brighton & Hove City Council; Hove; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Brighton & Hove City Council is seeking a Street Works Manager to lead a seasoned team coordinating road and street works across the city. You will oversee major utility upgrades, transport schemes and events, ensuring safe, efficient city movement and minimal disruption.

You'll introduce and lead Lane Rental, manage permits schemes, ensure compliance with NRSWA, TMA 2004, Highways Act 1980 and other statutes, and report to the Head of Network Management.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills and experience of working with external companies or works promoters, contractors and traffic management suppliers.
• Strong management skills with a passion for improvement, staff development and general leadership.
• Budget management including managing revenue and forecasting.
• To prepare reports on and be accountable for progress against agreed Service business plans for team meetings, Project and Programme Boards and Council Committees.
• To provide technical input as required to reports of other Senior Managers and Heads of service as they relate to Street work and Network Compliance.
• Ideally an understanding of the relevant legislation (New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, Traffic Management Act 2004, Brighton & Hove Permit Scheme, Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984); ability to explain requirements clearly to diverse stakeholders.
• Experience in working in transport, highways or a similar organisation showing understanding of the Highway Authority role in local government.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement Lane Rental.
• New Roads and Street Works Act (NRSWA) 1991.
• Traffic Management Act 2004.
• Highways Act 1980.
• Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.
• BHCC Permit Scheme.
• Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders.
• Events on the public highway.

Skills

Communication skills

Management skills

Budget management

Reporting

Technical input

Legislation knowledge

Transport/highways experience

Job description

Location

Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ

Job reference

REQ0001515

Salary

£49,817 - £53,051

Contractual hours

37

Benefits

We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages.

Attachments

Shortlisting questions - Street Works Manager.docx 4128.Nov24.Street Works Manager.JDPS.docx

Job description

Do you enjoy solving problems, leading people and making a real difference to how a city works?

We're looking for a Street Works Manager to lead a highly experienced team responsible for coordinating activity on Brighton & Hove's roads and streets. From major utility upgrades and transport schemes to public events and new infrastructure projects, you'll play a vital role in helping keep the city moving safely and efficiently.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape how works are managed across the city, minimise disruption for residents and businesses, and lead the introduction of Lane Rental, a major new initiative designed to reduce the impact of roadworks on the travelling public.

If you're looking for a varied leadership role where no two days are the same, we'd love to hear from you.

About the role

You will be one of the key managers reporting to the Head of Network Management.

You will be part of a strong, supportive, and efficient management team. Such an exciting time to join as we move towards the introduction of Lane Rental in the city you will be leading change and innovation in the street works world.

You will lead Brighton & Hove's Permit Scheme for road and street works which has been successfully operating since 2015. As the Street Works Manager, you and your team will provide support, technical advice to others to, to ensure that the Council's statutory and other obligations are met with particular emphasis on:

• Develop and implement Lane Rental
• New Roads and Street Works Act (NRSWA) 1991
• Traffic Management Act 2004
• Highways Act 1980
• Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984
• BHCC Permit Scheme
• Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders
• Events on the public highway

You will manage resources and processes to ensure the highway remains complaint, ensuring that inspections are undertaken and compliance supporting evidence is collated, for street works and all other activities on the highway including events. That the necessary inspection regimes to monitor compliance are in place to maintain the integrity of the public highway.

You will be able to work across internal service areas and external partnerships to promote an understanding of the Network Management Duty; the impact of coordination; evaluate any prospective impact on the strategic and local network and ensure that mitigating actions are taken to avoid disruption where necessary.

As the successful candidate you will have:

Excellent communication skills and experience of working with external companies or works promotors, contractors and traffic management suppliers. Ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders, council members and non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong management skills with a passion for improvement, staff development and general leadership.
• Budget management including managing revenue and forecasting.
• To prepare reports on and be accountable for progress against agreed Service business plans for team meetings, Project and Programme Boards and Council Committees.
• To provide technical input as required to reports of other Senior Managers and Heads of service as they relate to Street work and Network Compliance.
• Ideally an understanding of the relevant legislation (in particular the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, Traffic Management Act 2004, Brighton & Hove Permit Scheme, Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984); and the ability to explain their requirements clearly and concisely across a broad range of stakeholders.
• Experience in working in transport, highways or a similar organisation demonstrating an understanding of the role of the Highway Authority in local government.

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Why work for us?

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.