Highways Operations Team Manager

7 days ago

Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom Royal Borough of Kingston Full time

**Salary: £51,717 - £57,084
**Contract: Permanent

**Hours: Full Time, 36
**Annual Leave: 29 days
**Location: Hybrid working**

**About the Role**

Embedded in the new Royal Borough of Kingston and London Borough of Sutton Shared Service structure, you will ensure that the operational teams (Reactive Maintenance and Streetworks) have unified processes and systems across both boroughs. You will also embed efficient ways of working, and establish an effective Highways Asset Management function and plan, integrated with the rest of the Highways and Transport service.

The Highways Operations Team Manager will provide inspirational leadership and create an environment where their teams can achieve and thrive. The post holder will be managing around 28 staff, with 4 direct reports, covering Asset Management, Structures, Reactive Maintenance and Streetworks.

As a service, we are committed to a hybrid working future. The postholder will have to attend the office 'as required'
- the current expectation is around 2 days a week.

If you wish to have an informal discussion about this role, please contact:

- Cathy Daly, Recruitment Campaign Manager
- Sarah Rye, Assistant Director of Highways, Transportation and Regulatory Services **About Us**

The service has a vision to be an**exemplar shared service locally and nationally, striving for excellence in delivering the corporate aims of both Sutton and Kingston, tackling the climate emergency and ensuring a high quality environment for our residents.

We have ambitious plans and are looking for ambitious people to embody our high performing inclusive organisational culture, where everyone can thrive and be their authentic self whilst making a real difference to our local communities. We want to nurture all our people in their professional development and we will empower everyone to work in a distributed leadership model giving individuals ownership, responsibility and accountability.

**About You**

To be successful in this role, other essential skills, knowledge and competencies include:

- Degree in Highways, Transport, Engineering or other relevant discipline, or equivalent experience
- Leadership experience which promotes distributed leadership, empowering others to take ownership and accountability for outcomes
- Is competent with IT and Digital processes, seeking to drive digitisation
- Ability to analyse data and intelligence to drive improvements and collaborate with partners and communities
- Communicates clearly and effectively with a team to promote corporate vision, plan and activities, keeping the team informed of information which impacts them
- Experience of driving a service to deliver the zero-carbon agenda
- Creates a learning environment where innovation and creativity is celebrated and risks are managed
- Works collaboratively with others, leading by example

**Our Offer To You**

As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we're committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We're constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across however big or small; will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.

In addition we offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff supported by our IT infrastructure, Google Chromebooks and Google Apps, which have acted as a key enabler for collaborative and streamlined working. The COVID-19 pandemic has required us to be even more flexible in how we work and manage staff workloads, ensuring they have the correct equipment and resources to be able to maximise their talents and looking after their wellbeing.

Employees have access to a wide range of benefits, some of which include:

- Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply)
- Three volunteering days per year
- Flexible and agile working arrangements
- Comprehensive learning and development programme
- Discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
- Zip car scheme
- Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses
- Confidential wellbeing and counselling support
- Subsidised gym membership

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