Highway Manager

Role Responsibility

An opportunity has opened within the Highway Operations Team for two Highway Managers. These roles will be full-time positions on a 37 hours per week contract (Monday to Friday). Candidates will be able to utilise hybrid working with a mixture of working from home and the office. The office base will be Sandwich (Dover Highway Manager) and Aylesford (Tonbridge and Malling Highway Manager). Other offices can be utilised.

As a Highway Manager you will be responsible for the management of a small team of Highway Engineers and Highway Stewards, providing them with an operational direction. You will be responsible for the team’s delivery of both reactive and capital budgets and customer enquiries as well as the management and performance monitoring of the term maintenance contractor that carries out the operational works, and the Pothole Blitz Contractors that deliver localised pothole and patching repairs. Candidates should be able to demonstrate excellent leadership skills and knowledge of finance and budget management is essential. Candidates will work closely on a day-to-day basis with both internal and external customers, County Members, District/Borough Councillors and Parish Councils as well as other stake holders, and will need excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to deal with the public in difficult circumstances, be self-motivated, willing to learn and the ability to manage workloads.  A firm understanding of how Highway Authorities and Local Government work will be expected.

As a proven team player, you will be able to deliver excellent customer service and achieve the best outcomes for Kent residents. You will be expected to be compassionate, understanding, and respectful to all. You should be curious to innovate and improve and accept and offer challenge.

You will be required to attend Joint Transportation Board meetings (JTB) for your District on a quarterly basis, which are generally virtual meetings, and you may be called upon to attend other JTBs to assist colleagues during times of absence. These meetings are held outside of normal office hours.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

It is essential that the candidate can travel across a wide geographical area in a timely and flexible manner at various times of the day and candidates must have a full driving licence.

Contact Details

For further information on this role, please contact:

Pauline Harmer, Senior Highway Manager Pauline.harmer@kent.gov.uk or Richard Emmett, Senior Highway Manager Richard.emmett@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.