Area Maintenance Manager

# Area Maintenance Manager## About the roleJoin us in shaping the future of our highways! We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to join our team as an Area Maintenance Manager responsible for all reactive highway maintenance activities within a defined geographical area. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring that the highway network is maintained to a safe standard, that faults are investigated and repaired in accordance with the County’s Highway Operational Standards and customers are proactively updated on progress throughout. You will lead a team of dedicated professionals and work closely with various stakeholders to deliver high-quality services. For an informal discussion, please contact David Allatt, Service Director for Infrastructure and Project Delivery by contacting him on david.allatt@cambridgeshire.gov.ukThis is for the North area which covers Fenland and Huntingdonshire districts.This is an exciting opportunity to lead and manage a highways maintenance team, ensuring the effective delivery of maintenance services in a geographical area of Cambridgeshire. You will prioritise, organise and manage workloads across the team. Your role will provide strategic guidance to the team and ensure the teams working practices align with the County’s CARE values. You will be responsible for monitoring the team’s performance against defined KPIs and ensuring targets are met. These targets will include responding to customer reports, ensuring work is delivered on time. You will have responsibility for team development and ensuring your team is provided with the necessary support, training and guidance to fulfil their responsibilities. You will need to collaborate with other managers across the service to ensure a consistent professional and joined up approach is adopted. You will be the key contact for elected members responsible for ensuring they are kept informed of works in their electoral divisions. This will extend to partners in District and Parish Councils as well as the public. You will be responsible for managing a large reactive maintenance budget, working alongside our contractors to ensure we achieve best value for money.### About youWe are seeking a visionary leader with a deep understanding of highways maintenance and management. With a strong background in civil engineering, infrastructure, or a related discipline, you bring a wealth of experience in leading services within a large and dynamic organisation. You will be passionate about delivering high-quality, customer-focused services that make a tangible difference to communities. You will have a customer service focus as you will be a key contact for elected members and be ultimately responsible for ensuring that County, District, and Parish Councillors are kept informed of work in their electoral divisions. You will combine technical expertise with excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, enabling you to inspire teams, build strong partnerships, and drive continuous improvement. You will thrive in collaborative environments, working across departments and with contractors to deliver sustainable, inclusive, and resilient infrastructure solutions. Previous applicants within the last 6 months need not apply.### Our benefitsWe value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…* A comprehensive **wellbeing package** to cover **all aspects of wellbeing**, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family* Buy up to **4 weeks additional annual leave** (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme* Take your bank holidays **flexibly** to better suit **your personal circumstances*** Make **Additional Voluntary Contributions** (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings* Access to **development opportunities**, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support **your personal and professional growth*** **Paid volunteering hours** each year so you can make a **positive impact on our community** during your normal working day* Access to **Peer Support Groups** through our IDEAL staff **equality, diversity and inclusion** network* Opportunities to nominate and receive **Employee Recognition Awards*** An **Our Cambs Rewards** account, giving you access to in-store and online **discounts** as well as our **Car Lease** and **Cycle to Work** schemesTake a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network \’IDEAL\’ and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.The following content displays a map of the job\’s location.| OpenStreetMap contributors### Area Maintenance Manager* **Salary** £55427 – £59654* **Salary Frequency** Annual* **Working Hours** 37 Hours per week* **Job Reference** Ref/121795/6850* **Contract Type** Full Time* **Contract Details** Full Time, Permanent* **Closing Date** 02 November, 2025* **Job Category** Highways and Transportation* **Location** New Shire Hall Emery Crescent, Enterprise Campus Weald, United Kingdom* **Job Posted Date** 29 September, 2025 #J-18808-Ljbffr