Assistant Area Highway Manager

Salary: £42,708 to £45,718 per annum. Contract: Full-time, 37 hours per week. Location: Base Drayton Depot nr. Chichester. You will be able to work in a hybrid manner, as determined by the needs of the service. Contract: Permanent. Employer Pension Contribution: 19.70% this alters per annum on the 1 April each year. Annual leave: 30 days holiday + Bank holidays = 38 days . As an Assistant Area Highway Manager, you will directly manage front-line staff to deliver a reactive safety service on the highway network. On a day-to-day basis, you will be responding to complex, multi-step highway issues. In your role, you will help set operational standards, utilise technical knowledge to resolve problems, and manage the team to deliver performance management objectives. You will also support the delivery of contractual maintenance activities, monitoring, auditing and projects. You will establish strong relationships both internally and externally to enable effective partnership working and collaboration. It will be essential for you to utilise these relationships to gain stakeholders’ support when making decisions and engaging in partnership activities. This role involves working with communities on community-led initiatives to enhance local highway spaces, as well as interacting with the public by handling e…