Highway Operations Team Manager

Network Management and Construction

Our work in the Transport Division impacts on the economy, the environment and equality. Our purpose is to improve people’s daily lives and their longer-term heath, wealth and happiness.

It’s about people and neighbourhoods and providing the right places to enjoy their lives.  Our city’s transport infrastructure can play one of the most important roles in helping the people of our city make healthy choices for them, their family, and friends. 

The Transport division are committed to delivering services that will help Newcastle develop into the UK’s safest, most accessible, and best integrated multi modal carbon efficient transport system thereby ensuring the future economic growth of the city. 

We have excellent expertise across the Transport division and are committed to delivering resilient, customer focused and high-quality services.

What the role will involve?
If you aspire to make a real difference and are passionate about delivering high-quality, effective services, then our Traffic Signals team within Network Management and Construction, part of the Transport Division, could be the perfect place for you.

This is an exciting time to join the Highway Operations team as we deliver a range of major transport improvement schemes, capital investment projects, routine highway maintenance, and essential gully cleansing services, helping to keep our network safe, efficient, and resilient for everyone who uses it.

Who are we looking for?
The successful candidate will have a proven track record and recent experience in leading the implementation, management and delivery of highway schemes and programmes.

As a natural leader with a strong commitment to staff wellbeing, you will foster positive working relationships, engage effectively with key stakeholders and customers, and champion innovative approaches to service delivery and continuous improvement to achieve service and financial objectives.

You will possess demonstrable experience in managing contractual performance, ensuring operational requirements are consistently met while maintaining a safe, healthy and secure working environment.

Through strong leadership and effective collaboration, you will drive high standards of performance, customer service and programme delivery.

What can we offer you?
If a competitive salary and pension with the option to opt in to an AVC scheme wasn’t enough you will also have

• A generous annual leave allowance.
• The option to buy additional annual leave.
• Access to family friendly policies including maternity and adoption leave, maternity support leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, special leave, leave when caring for a terminally ill dependent, leave for armed forces reservists, disability related special leave, career breaks and paid leave to support the electoral process.
• An enhanced work life balance including agile working, part-year working, compressed hours and flexi time where appropriate.
• Access to numerous salary sacrifice schemes including home electronics, car lease and gym membership.
• Access to physiotherapy, counselling services and eye tests for VDE users through our Occupational Health Service.
• Access to an extensive wellbeing programme including access to a 24 hour employee assistance programme for you and your immediate family.
• Access to Mental Health First Aiders.
• Ability to join staff network groups to meet and share information and raise awareness and include, Black and Minority Ethnic network, Disabled Employee network and LGBT+ network
• Ability to join a trade union.
• Access to a staff travel scheme.
• Access to learning and development opportunities including a comprehensive corporate induction programme, access to e-learning, an annual performance appraisal, upskilling apprenticeships, access to Learning Resource Centres
• A rewarding and most importantly access to a challenging career.

Additionally, we also offer you retail discounts on hundreds of the UK’s highstreet and online retailers including travel, dining out, mobile and broadband from the point of receiving your offer of employment.

Who we are
Newcastle is an ambitious City, it always has been. Its’ an iconic City with a rich heritage but one that also shapes the future of the region.
Here at Newcastle City Council we have a real passion to improve the lives of residents and visitors in the City through the wide variety of essential public services we deliver and the relationships we influence.  From our City leaders, to every member of our team, we’re all committed to making Newcastle a City that is vibrant and thriving.

Our values
Everyone who works within one of our valuable public services makes an important contribution to delivering our vision and priorities of the city. How we do things is as important as what we do. In everything we do we strive to embed and live the Councils values
Proud
Fair
Ambitious

Why work for us?
We strive to be an organisation where equality, diversity and inclusion is part of who we are and how we work and where every member of our team is treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to building an inclusive and supportive workplace where you can bring your whole self to work and succeed in being your best.

Our people deliver amazing services, initiatives and projects to benefit the lives of our residents. They also develop, manage, and maintain the City’s vital infrastructure and public spaces that our societies and communities rely on.

If you want to become an integral part of the team to make a citywide difference for our residents and visitors, then we want to hear from you.
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