Streetworks Manager

Interview date: to be confirmed

Do you enjoy solving problems, leading people and making a real difference to how a city works?

We're looking for a Street Works Manager to lead a highly experienced team responsible for coordinating activity on Brighton & Hove's roads and streets. From major utility upgrades and transport schemes to public events and new infrastructure projects, you'll play a vital role in helping keep the city moving safely and efficiently.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape how works are managed across the city, minimise disruption for residents and businesses, and lead the introduction of Lane Rental, a major new initiative designed to reduce the impact of roadworks on the travelling public.

If you're looking for a varied leadership role where no two days are the same, we'd love to hear from you.

About the role

You will be one of the key managers reporting to the Head of Network Management

You will be part of a strong, supportive, and efficient management team. Such an exciting time to join as we move towards the introduction of Lane Rental in the city you will be leading change and innovation in the street works world.

You will lead Brighton & Hove’s Permit Scheme for road and street works which has been successfully operating since 2015. As the Street Works Manager, you and your team will provide support, technical advice to others to, to ensure that the Council’s statutory and other obligations are met with particular emphasis on:

• Develop and implement Lane Rental
• New Roads and Street Works Act (NRSWA) 1991
• Traffic Management Act 2004
• Highways Act 1980
• Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984
• BHCC Permit Scheme
• Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders.
• Events on the public highway.

You will manage resources and processes to ensure the highway remains complaint, ensuring that inspections are undertaken and compliance supporting evidence is collated, for street works and all other activities on the highway including events. That the necessary inspection regimes to monitor compliance are in place to maintain the integrity of the public highway.

You will be able to work across internal service areas and external partnerships to promote an understanding of the Network Management Duty; the impact of coordination; evaluate any prospective impact on the strategic and local network and ensure that mitigating actions are taken to avoid disruption where necessary.

As the successful candidate you will have:

Excellent communication skills and experience of working with external companies or works promotors, contractors and traffic management suppliers. Ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders, council members and non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong management skills with a passion for improvement, staff development and general leadership.
• Budget management including managing revenue and forecasting.
• To prepare reports on and be accountable for progress against agreed Service business plans for team meetings, Project and Programme Boards and Council Committees.
• To provide technical input as required to reports of other Senior Managers and Heads of service as they relate to Street work and Network Compliance.
• Ideally an understanding of the relevant legislation (in particular the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, Traffic Management Act 2004, Brighton & Hove Permit Scheme, Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984); and the ability to explain their requirements clearly and concisely across a broad range of stakeholders.
• Experience in working in transport, highways or a similar organisation demonstrating an understanding of the role of the Highway Authority in local government.

Encouraging a diverse workforce
Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Why work for us?
As a council, we want to:
• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe
For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

How to apply
Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.

As part of your application, you will need to provide your education and career history and answer some application/shortlisting questions. Your answers to the application/shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

AI advice for candidates
We are interested in hearing about your experience and skills in your own words. While we value people who know how to use AI, we ask that you minimise using it in your application.

We are keen to hear how your experience and skills align to our values and the skills and experience needed to perform well in our roles with clear real examples from you. To support you in this, we have guidance on using the STAR model which can help you ensure you are telling us your whole story. We also provide clarity on the skills we are looking for in our adverts and in the job description/person specification attached to each job advert.

All the applications we receive are read by at least two hiring managers and we do not use AI in this process. Our experience of reading applications is that those that have heavily used AI contain generic paragraphs that are strikingly similar to other applicants’ responses. This makes it extremely difficult to differentiate between applications, and doesn't give us enough evidence of your individual skills. There is a risk that we will therefore not be able to shortlist you. Instead, we recommend you ensure your application stands out by presenting clear examples of your actual skills and experiences in your own words.

Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

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