Highways and Transportation Systems Manager

7 days ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom AtkinsRéalis Full time
Job Title: Highways and Transportation Systems Manager

Shape a faster, smarter, safer future with AtkinsRéalis.

You will be part of a collaborative environment where everyone's voice is valued and treated equally.

As a Practice Manager within our Highways and Active Travel team, you will be pivotal in implementing ideas that shape the future of how we move.

Our Major clients include Highways England, Transport Scotland, Department for Infrastructure, Local Authorities, TfL, Network Rail, design and build contractors, and other niche clients.

You will feel a great sense of pride in shaping high-quality civil and structural designs across new build, renewal, maintenance, and assessment works. Collaborate with national and international design teams, using your insight and leadership to generate positive, sustainable impacts on society and the environment.

We offer flexible working where you will typically be working from any of the AtkinsRéalis offices like Birmingham, Derby, or Nottingham for 2-3 days per week

Your Purpose:

  • Grow the team in the Midlands and work with the market and business development teams to engage with clients and actively sell our technical capabilities.
  • Enthuse and motivate our people through effective performance and development plans that align to their career opportunities.
  • Work with the Design Transformation and Net Zeros programmes to develop our capability.
  • Contribute to the successful delivery of budget requirements, including productivity, management of overheads, and headcount through effective management of resources.
  • Act as Hiring Manager for the team and ensure a flexible workforce is employed either through permanent staff or supply chain.
  • Support the flow of work to the GTC based in India.
  • Liaise with the Practice Director to ensure we have sufficient resources with the right skills to deliver our current and future market strategies.
  • Support the technical development of staff within their practice team and encourage knowledge sharing.

What you can bring:

  • Use your experience of successfully leading a team and individual performance, to lead the practice teams in a manner that it is recognised for technical and delivery excellence, embracing digital innovations, and ability to flexibly respond to business needs.
  • Provide line manager supervision, overseeing career & talent development for the practice.
  • Strong collaborative behaviours to interface with Practice Director, other Practice Managers, Market teams, and other stakeholders.
  • Undertake technical delivery or project management as appropriate.
  • Identify work opportunities and foster great client relationships, maximising additional/repeat/follow-on work from clients.
  • Involvement with bidding activities through coordination with the market and Win Work teams and provide technical input from the practice to support strategic bids.

Why work for AtkinsRéalis?

Our Transportation teams are reinventing transport for a challenging yet exciting future. We're creating new ideas and smart solutions for cities, people, and the environment. You'll be working alongside some of the top people in our industry, solving challenges that bring together traditional engineering and new technologies. As part of our organisation, you'll be in a privileged position, delivering what's right for governments and communities. You'll be helping us to improve our leading environmental performance while enabling others to do the same.

Security clearance:

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role, please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive, and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and ability.

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Worker Type Employee

Job Type Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds, and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion, or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.

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