Transport Maintenance Manager

Brighton & Hove City Council; Hove; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Brighton & Hove City Council is seeking a Maintenance Manager to lead maintenance services for parking assets and city infrastructure. You will manage planned maintenance cycles, oversee contractor-delivered repairs, and drive large-scale refurbishments while keeping carparks operational 24/7.

A strong focus on health and safety, collaboration, and staff mentoring is essential. You will work with contractors, technical specialists and operational teams to deliver high-quality services for

Qualifications

• Experience leading maintenance programmes and managing third-party contractors.
• Strong collaboration across cross-functional teams to deliver high-profile projects.
• Commitment to health and safety and inclusive service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Manage planned annual maintenance cycles across city assets.
• Oversee one-off repair programmes delivered by contractors.
• Lead large-scale refurbishment projects while ensuring day-to-day maintenance keeps carparks operational 24/7.
• Mentor and unite the maintenance team through periods of change.
• Promote health and safety in all decision making.

Skills

People leadership

Health & safety

Programme management

Collaboration

Mentoring

Job description

Contractual hours: 37 Package: 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., Do you have a talent for leading maintenance services, managing complex assets and delivering high-quality projects? Are you keen to shape the future of parking asset maintenance, ensuring car parks and on-street infrastructure remain safe, accessible and fit for purpose? Are you enjoy working with contractors, technical specialists and operational teams to solve problems and deliver excellent services for residents and visitors? Can you inspire and support a diverse team whilst championing health and safety, continuous improvement and inclusive service delivery?, The Transport Maintenance Team plays a vital role in meeting City Infrastructure's aims, to ensure the parking assets and the councils car parks are maintained and controlled effectively. The team carry out first line and a programme of routine maintenance to protect the council's parking assets, ensuring they meet all Health and Safety standards, maximising the life of equipment, and protecting parking revenue. As a Maintenance Manager you will have extensive knowledge of building management and maintenance. You will be responsible for identifying impacts and risks and responding appropriately with health and safety at the forefront of all your decision making. This is an exciting role, where you will be managing planned annual maintenance cycles, one-off repair programmes delivered by third-party suppliers, and large-scale refurbishment projects whilst ensuring day-to-day, routine maintenance is carried out efficiently to keep our carparks operational 24/7. You will have strong people leadership skills, managing a team who predominately lone work on site throughout the city. You will be able to mentor and unite the team through periods of change. You will have strong collaboration skills and have experience working as a subject matter expert in cross functional teams on complex and high-profile projects. 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 actions, our and the work we are doing to Why work for us? As a council, we want to:

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