Head of Highways Maintenance and Management

6 days ago


Cambridge, United Kingdom CV-Library Full time

Title: Head of Highways Management and Maintenance
Rate: Daily rate, negotiable
Type: Temporary - 6 months
Location: Cambridgeshire, New Shire Hall

Opus People Solutions are working with Cambridgeshire County Council to recruit for an interim Head of Highways Management and Maintenance to support the achievement of the directorate's core aim of improving transport and connectivity across the county for all communities, protecting and enhancing the environment, delivering sustainable and include economic development and maintaining a resident focus delivery effective front-line services.

As the Head of Highways Maintenance and reporting to the Service Director: Infrastructure and Project Delivery, you will act as the senior professional lead providing operational leadership, development and management for professional services within your given remit, ensuring the highest quality services are delivered within resources available.
The role will be fully responsible and accountable for the delivery of all Highways Maintenance services including:

Carriageways, Footways and Cycleways
Green Infrastructure
Drainage and Resilience
Structures
Customer Engagement for HighwaysResponsibilities:

Responsible for the development of strategic objectives and outcomes for responsible services within the Place and Sustainability directorate, taking account of organisational strategy, best practice and legislative and regulatory requirements. Ensure this is shared through strong leadership within the service.
Provide expert knowledge within area of professional specialism including policy, best practice and law, ensuring that all policies, processes and approaches are documented and are up to date, reflecting practices that achieve best outcomes for communities and the Council.
Provide senior operational management to all teams within services responsible. Be accountable for activity across service areas, ensuring that managers are effectively overseeing their operations including planning, allocation and review of workload so priorities are managed, shortfalls identified and services delivered within capacity and within departmental and partnership policies, procedures and timescales.
Provide leadership to ensure that resources are deployed effectively and managers operate in a way that adheres to legislation, regulation and compliance, provides good outcomes for communities and the Council.
Lead on developing, through others, management information that enables oversight of activity across professional service.
Establish and contribute towards robust performance metrics and benchmarks to evaluate the impact of service delivery, adapting processes and strategies to achieve successful outcomes for communities and the Council.
Represent Cambridgeshire County Council at stakeholder, board or partnership meetings, working jointly and collaboratively to maximise opportunity and service delivery.
Work with partners, contractors and suppliers ensuring that contracts, projects and joint ventures are performing well, meeting outcomes, are best value for money and are fully compliant with County Council approaches.
For more information on this role please contact (phone number removed)



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