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Strategic Lead – Highways Delivery
Lake Champlain Chamber. Lead day-to-day delivery of highway services across Lancashire .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in leading highway services, managing operational resources, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations. Proven ability to deliver complex infrastructure projects while maintaining high standards of quality, safety, and customer service.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Highway Maintenance DeliveryWorkforce Planning and DeploymentBudget ManagementHealth and Safety ComplianceLeadership and Stakeholder Management
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Hard Skills
Civil EngineeringHighways OperationsPerformance ManagementProject ManagementOperational Resource Management
Soft Skills
LeadershipCommunicationStakeholder Management
Tools & Technologies
Highways Asset Management System
Certifications & Qualifications
Chartered Membership of Professional Body
Industry Keywords
CDM RegulationsWinter MaintenanceEmergency ResponseInfrastructure OperationsQuality Standards
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead day-to-day delivery of highway services across Lancashire
- Provide operational leadership across highway, street lighting and structures maintenance, improvement works and highway projects
- Translate organisational priorities into safe, productive and well-resourced programmes
- Lead operational teams and the direct labour workforce
- Manage workforce planning, productivity, performance, competence and wellbeing
- Coordinate people, plant, fleet, depots, materials and contractors
- Maintain safety, quality, customer service and value-for-money standards
- Oversee countywide Structures, Surfacing and Grounds Maintenance responsibilities
- Oversee Business Support and the Highways Asset Management System
- Lead coordination of Winter Maintenance and Emergency Call Out
- Work with commercial, engineering and asset colleagues to address performance challenges and improve operational delivery
Requirements
What you’ll need- Relevant degree-level qualification or equivalent experience in civil engineering, highways, transport or a related operational field
- Chartered membership of an appropriate professional body would be advantageous
- Substantial experience leading large, complex operational services, including managers, supervisors and a significant frontline or direct labour workforce
- Strong track record delivering highway maintenance, improvement works or comparable infrastructure operations safely, efficiently and to demanding quality, time and cost standards
- Strong experience of workforce planning and deployment, including performance, productivity, attendance, competence, employee relations and safe systems of work
- Ability to manage budgets and operational resources, including labour, plant, fleet, materials, depots and contractors
- Experience of winter maintenance, emergency response or other out-of-hours operational services
- Strong knowledge of highways operations, legislation, technical standards and health and safety requirements, including CDM Regulations
- Excellent leadership, communication and stakeholder-management skills
- Ability to work effectively with senior leaders, elected members, partners, trade unions, contractors and other organisations
Benefits
Comp & perks- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Flexible working opportunities
- Health and wellbeing support
- Family-friendly policies
- Financial and travel benefits
- Training and development opportunities