Engineering Team Manager

About The Job

Here at National Highways, we currently have an opportunity for an Engineering Team Manager to join the Southeast region Operations team. Within this role, you will be managing the integration of Major Projects and Third-party schemes into Operations, ensuring effective liaison between stakeholders and managing timely completion of Operations’ inputs and approvals, as well as effective planning of business readiness activities within Operations.

This role is based at either our Guildford, Basingstoke or Maidstone office.

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.

You Will:

• Work with internal Operations colleagues (Engineering teams, Service Delivery teams etc.) to understand the implications of new assets entry into service and ensure that appropriate business readiness activities are planned and implemented in time to ensure robust handover of new assets and ultimately, that project benefits can be achieved.
• Proactively manage and coordinate the escalation of major risks and issues with regional stakeholders (i.e. Regional Director, Route Sponsors, etc.), ensuring implications are understood and mitigating actions can be agreed in a timely manner. 
• Coordinate and ensure good flow of communications between all relevant stakeholders so that any changes to project scope, timescales, requirements or specifications can be assessed and relevant plans can be adjusted to minimise risks and knock on impacts.
• Become an integral team member ensuring Operations related inputs, decisions and approvals are planned, coordinated and delivered in a timely and consistent manner.
• Promote and focus the needs and interests of Operations and regional customers on major projects, influencing and advising on any relevant project decisions, risks and issues.
• Ensuring the health and safety needs and wellbeing of customers and employees are fully considered and accounted for throughout the planning and delivery of each service activity.

About You.

• Preferably with Highways management experience together with a Degree in Engineering and/or technical qualifications/accreditations.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of relevant technical standards, asset policies, asset operation and maintenance requirements. 
• Evidence of managing complex relationships with multiple stakeholders and evidence of skills to influence relationships for positive outcomes.
• Demonstrable experience of managing the development of project plans and detailed stage plans in conjunction with delivery partners.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

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.

Why you should join us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers. 

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it – then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.

A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our Benefits Package

• Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
• Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
• Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working
• Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
• Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
• A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
• Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And We Are

• Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
• Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
• Community friendly – offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year

If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:       

• Right to work check
• 3 year employment history references
• DBS criminal record check
• Social media and adverse journalism check
• Driving licence check (if applicable)
• Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)
• Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)

And Finally

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