Job Introduction
It’s an exciting time to join our Highways Team here at Staffordshire County Council!
Our vision is to help Staffordshire’s economy grow, so that everyone has the opportunity of a good job and good prospects in a beautiful, safe, accessible, vibrant, cultural, prosperous, business friendly and sustainable county.
Staffordshire has great places and great connections, boasting the beautiful rural landscape of a shire county together with excellent transport links to major destinations across the country.
We are committed to fixing more roads and improving transport and digital connections and we are making significant investment into the quality of our roads. To ensure we can deliver our ambitious Highways Strategy we are looking to grow our team of highway engineering professionals and develop talent for the future.
About the Role
This position sits within the Highways Asset and Policy team. Asset Management underpins all activities on the network ensuring whole life planning is considered at every stage of specification, commissioning, development and maintenance.
The role is to support the delivery of the Council’s responsibilities as Highways Authority leading on the Staffordshire Specification for Highway Works, commissioning and monitoring of the management and delivery arrangements for all operations relating to the maintenance and improvement of the highway structures and to contribute to the development of the Council’s highway assets management processes and practices.
Main Responsibility
As a member of the Highways Maintenance and Network Management team you will:
- Lead, manage and direct all aspects of the Staffordshire Specification for Highway Works, ensuring that the determination of materials, products and treatments meet requirements for effectiveness, durability and environmental impact.
- Lead on the commissioning of all operations relating to the maintenance and improvement of highway structures.
- To lead on and contribute to the development and implementation of projects, initiatives and standards for the effective and efficient services to provide continuous improvement and effective delivery of services.
- Lead on the implementation of innovative solutions by challenging convention and represent the authority at national and professional groups and bodies to position Staffordshire as a best-in-class service.
- Lead and manage on ensuring that the quality of workmanship and materials delivered in new highway schemes and development activities is in accordance with the expected standard and requirements of Staffordshire specification and contract documentation.
- Lead on the development of the Council’s highway assets management processes and practices so that highway asset management becomes more visible and understood within the Council.
The Ideal Candidate
You will have significant experience in the management, commissioning and delivery of highway infrastructure management, together with:
- A Degree in a relevant discipline e.g. Civil Engineering and/or a professional qualification at Chartered Engineer level or Incorporated Engineer with substantial post qualification knowledge/experience at equivalent level.
- Experience of working with highway contracts, highway legislation and legal agreements.
- Experience of using design standards, specifications, guidance and statutory requirements associated with highway projects and/or bridge related projects.
- Demonstrable understanding of highway maintenance processes, operations and materials and their applicability to varying defects and type of highway.
Key Skills:
- Leadership and team management of multi-disciplinary teams.
- Ability to appreciate and balance many demands and constraints both environmental and political to produce practical and effective solutions.
- Good written, verbal and digital communication skills, with the ability to pitch communications at an appropriate level to the target audience
Applicant shortlisting will take place week commencing 10 March 2025.
The interview dates for this vacancy will be week commencing 17 March 2025.
Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat about the role please contact Matt Thomas, Highway Asset & Policy Manager at: matthew.thomas@staffordshire.gov.uk
Please note we reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closing date.
Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.
About Staffordshire County Council
We are no ordinary county council:
Our Values:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.
Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.
We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.
Our benefits:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire
Our recruitment process:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities
As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
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