Head of Transport Projects

INTERNAL VACANCY

City of York Council is looking for a Head of Transport Projects to lead our Transport Projects team and deliver improvements that make a real difference for our city.

York offers a truly unique blend of historic character and forward‑looking infrastructure that makes it an energising place for any Project engineering or Project Management professional to further their career. Combining roman walls, medieval streets, and Victorian rail heritage with an active commitment to sustainable mobility, smart‑city innovation, and major regeneration projects.

Reporting to our City Head of Capital Programmes, you will be working within a growing City Development directorate, focussed on the provision and delivery of a high-quality, client responsive service.

The Transport Projects team covers a diverse portfolio including our active travel programme, the continued rollout of our electric vehicle charging infrastructure, expansion of our Park & Ride sites, complex road safety improvement projects, school streets and the councils largest major roads project York Outer Ring Road Dualling.

The role will involve leading a team of highly motivated engineering and project management professionals in the delivery of projects from inception to completion, acting as lead for relationships with external partners such as York North Yorkshire Combined Authority, Department for Transport & private developers.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated leader to shape and grow the teams success and future direction. In return we will offer a range of diverse tasks and projects to work on as well as individual training and development opportunities.

As an excellent and proactive communicator, you will have experience in working within the civil infrastructure, project management / capital delivery sector preferably, but not essentially, Highways & Transport.

If interested, please review the Job Description and apply online

This post is suitable as a job share opportunity.

If you are an internal candidate interested in applying for this job as a secondment opportunity, please discuss with your current line manager before submitting your application.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for this role. Each role at CYC is different and your working arrangements will be determined based on the requirements of the role and in collaboration with you and your needs as part of the recruitment process. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team.

The Council is committed to investing in the talent and wellbeing of our staff and can offer a generous annual leave allowance, access to the Local Government Pension Scheme, comprehensive Health & Wellbeing initiatives and a reward package which recognises your contribution. We can offer flexible working practices, community engagement and volunteer activities and, as part of our commitment to you, promote continuous Learning & Development. In addition we also offer a growing range of discounts, rewards and savings.

For further information or an informal discussion please contact Joshua Singer (City Head of Capital Programmes) at joshua.singer@york.gov.uk

Closing date: Wednesdays 14 October

Interview date: Week commencing Monday 26th Oct

Internally advertised posts are only open to CYC, WWY and Be Independent employees. Explore and Veritau employees are not eligible to apply for these posts.