Lead Highways Network Manager - WMF1722i

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Job reference: REQ
Date posted: 19/03/2025
Application closing date: 21/04/2025
Location: Blank
Salary: £63,830 - £66,642
Package: Blank
Contractual hours: 37
Basis: Full time
Attachments: Blank

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Location: Kendal, Penrith or Barrow

Contract Type: Permanent

About this opportunity

Westmorland and Furness Council, Highways and Transport service is looking for an experienced and motivated individual to join us as the Lead Highways Network manager. We are excited to offer this excellent opportunity for candidates with experience in highways, civil engineering, transportation, and construction backgrounds, who are looking to join a large and thriving organisation.

The Service is responsible for managing and delivering Westmorland and Furness Council's duties for Highways Services.

The role is responsible for the leadership and the management of Westmorland and Furness Council's Highways Network Management service, and to be the lead manager for Highways Network Management across all Locality areas, being responsible for the delivery of the highway maintenance functions and the delivery of local highways priorities.

The successful candidate will have leadership and management responsibility for a team of Highway Network Managers covering a wide range of statutory highway functions and asset improvement, including coordination with other area-based functions, such as traffic management, development management and programme management. Ensuring that staff engage and work with the whole organisation, encouraging a 'one team' work and performance culture, whilst delivering effective and efficient highways services, is a vital part of this role.

Who we are looking for

We are looking for someone with substantial senior level experience in Highways or Network management disciplines, ideally within a highways or wider civil engineering discipline and with a comprehensive knowledge of highways and transportation issues and services including Asset management, project, programme and risk management, Performance management and Contract/Partnership management.

The role requires knowledge of our political processes and structures of the Council and its key partners, working in a rapidly changing environment. Substantial experience of managing complex issues, programmes and contracts including change management and the implementation of innovation, will be an advantage.

The role will take financial responsibility for both Capital and Revenue budgets.

What can we offer you!

Working at Westmorland and Furness Council you will receive a variety of benefits, including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and other various perks and discounts schemes. For more information about life at Westmorland and Furness Council and what we can offer you, please visit our Careers site: Our benefits Careers (westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk)

Would you like to find out more?

For further information about this role, such as responsibilities and essential criteria please view the below documents:

We are currently operating both in-person and virtual interviews. Options will be discussed with candidates once they have been invited to the interview stage of the process for this specific position, and if you have any concerns or adjustments are needed, we are happy to discuss this with you.

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Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Westmorland and Furness Council is committed to improving the diversity of its workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone and work to promote an inclusive, supportive culture that values and celebrates our differences.

As a Disability Confident Leader, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

We also offer guaranteed interviews to Armed Forces personnel and veterans and those in care or care experienced and under 24 years old, that meet the essential criteria for the role.