Area Highway Manager

**About The Job**

**Salary**: £50,105 to £53,538 per annum.

**Contract**: Permanent.

**Hours**: Full time, 37 hours per week.

**Location**: Jobs Depot, Hicksead - hybrid working available.

The Area Highway Manager is a critical role to ensure local delivery of the highway service. The role puts customers, communities and our members at the heart of everything we do.

The Area Highway Manager will lead a team who delivers the highways service in a discrete geographical area and may have a countywide specialism/ responsibility for an aspect of the highway service. The Area Highway Manager role will focus on the effectiveday to day operations of the service through the management of a small team, and will operate as the principal professional in regard to team operations. This will include the performance management of the team and the co-ordination, planning and deliveryof agreed activities and objectives.

You will contribute to the development, and shape of future team or group service provision, and build and maintain relationships, influencing activities including working across and outside of the organisation. As part of a wider management team, the roleholder will be included in an 'Out of Hours Rota' which means that they will be contactable in the event of a major incident outside of office hours.

**Experience and Skills**

**Key Skills**
- Ability to make sound pragmatic problem-solving decisions, which will have a wider service impact.
- The ability to provide comprehensive professional advice and support within the service specialism, including tackling difficult problems of a technical, professional, resource or people related nature.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to influence actions by others and negotiate effective business solutions.
- Effective people management and performance management skills and the ability to provide direction and support to individuals and teams.
- Ability to set timescales and review effectiveness of service delivery.
- Ability to challenge existing practices and identify innovative solutions within the required framework.

**Qualifications and/or experience**:

- Relevant chartered/incorporated status of a professional body Institution of Civil Engineers (CEng/IEng status) or equivalent high-level experience of involved practices.
- Full current driver's licence.
- Demonstrable experience of delivering or co-ordinating a quality customer focused highway maintenance or traffic engineering service to others.
- Thorough understanding of local government and other agency functions, for example, public utilities, Environment Agency, Highways Agency, police, Borough / District / Parish / Town councils.
- Significant post qualification experience in dealing with complex and diverse issues.
- Experience of managing / leading staff.
- Experience of managing a small budget and/or contributing to financially related decisions on larger spends.
- Authoritative, applied knowledge of the specialist or professional discipline
including technical theories and related principles, practices and procedures.
- Sound and accurate IT knowledge e.g. Microsoft Office.

**Reward and benefits**

We care hugely about wellbeing and developing our team to be the best they can be. Alongside this, we also offer the below benefits:

- A competitive salary.
- **29**days annual leave + bank holidays.
- A generous pension scheme.
- Supported and encouraged to achieve professional membership of institutions such as the Institution of Civil Engineers and/or the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation, to IEng or CEng status as appropriate.
- Subscription fees of one appropriate professional body paid for by WSCC
- A strong supportive management team.
- A range of discounts including: Argos, Samsung, Asos, B&Q and many more.
- Free access to employee assistant programmes.
- Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres.
- A range of commuting and business travel discount and initiatives

For a full list of the benefits offered to you as a West Sussex County Council employee you can find them on our **Rewards and Benefits** page.

**Further information**

The reference number for this role is EIE01059.

To apply, please follow the links below upload your CV and cover letter explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role.

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