This Team Manager post sits in the S278 Highways Team within Engineering Design Services at Warwickshire County Council. The role leads engineers and technicians delivering developer-funded highway schemes, from junction upgrades and link roads to cycling and active travel projects, including managing fee proposals and consultant work packages. It is a matrix-working role that involves co-ordinating with traffic signal, structural and street lighting designers. Fluent spoken English is required to advise the public.
What the job involves
- Lead and manage a team of engineers and technicians on S278 highway works
- Project-manage S278 schemes to internal processes, design standards, legal requirements, traffic regulations and health and safety policy
- Manage engineers acting as project managers
- Deliver programmes of S278 works, co-ordinating with traffic signal, structural and street lighting designers
- Calculate S278 fee proposals, discuss them with developers and clients, monitor costs and handle financial queries
- Project-manage work packages let to consultants through the professional services framework
- Build relationships and communicate with colleagues and stakeholders, orally and in writing
- Solve complex technical and logistical problems
- Manage conflicting priorities and demands in local authority infrastructure delivery
- Prepare reports for the Service Manager or Head of EDS
- Make critical decisions and exercise sound judgement in difficult circumstances
- Operate in a matrix working environment
What's required
Experience
- Experienced civil engineer
Skills & knowledge
- Technical expertise and project management
- Strong leadership and team management
- Stakeholder relationship building
- Clear oral and written communication
- Solving complex technical and logistical problems
- Composure and sound judgement under pressure
Other
- Fluency duty: accurate spoken English to advise the public
- Operating in a matrix working environment
What's offered
- Pension scheme with employer contribution typically around 19 percent, plus benefits for members and dependants
- Agile working
- Generous annual leave, bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas
- Access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform
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The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
