Highways Maintenance Manager

Your new company

On behalf of a market leader in the highways term maintenance industry, we are looking to onboard an Highways Maintenance Manager. With 40 years of experience in the industry, this company provides award winning civil engineering programmes and highway services to a number of public sector clients. Working alongside local authorities, they aim to create communities where people want to live, work, and play.

Your new role

You will be tasked with ensuring best practise operations and maintenance activities are carried out, helping to raise the quality of life for those working and living or visiting London. You will be responsible for implementing changes to ensure efficiencies, working alongside leadership that gets out of the way and lets you get on with it. This is a contract role based in Belvedere South-East London.

You will:

• Manage operational health, safety and environmental matters and promote improvements
• Develop, implement and improvement the Plans and Strategies associated with the highway maintenance service in London
• Represent the Highway Service at meetings with Transport for London / London Borough Clients and key stakeholder groups such as local businesses, neighbouring Authorities and public inquiries etc.
• Ensure compliance with the business and Authority s policies and strategies
• Ensure that Risk Assessments, Method Statements and COSHH Assessments are carried out in a timely way and that any improvement activities are fully resourced to deliver best value
• Develop, promote and oversee recycling activities and carbon and water reduction targets
• Assist with the formulating and reviewing of appropriate recruitment and training strategies
• Work with the HSE team under CDM to ensure safe construction and maintenance.

About you

This is a diverse role so the ability to wear many hats is key, you will be joining a team with clear goals and direction who strives for continual improvement. You will be a people person who is capable of engaging and motivating a team. You will help to bring value to the team by ticking off some of the below:

• Experience of highways maintenance or a related field, ideally in a team leadership / management role
• Good working knowledge of highway asset management systems
• Good understanding of sustainability and carbon impacts of highway service
• Competence in writing procedures and setting up systems which reflect and promote the best practices of customer care, quality, value for money, continuous improvement, and equality of opportunity in service delivery.

If you fit the above or are keen to find out more, get in touch with us at the office or apply today!