Calderdale Council
Engineering Team Manager (Structures)
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About the Role
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly driven candidate to join our Highways Design and Regulation (Structures) team at Calderdale Council.
We are seeking to recruit an Engineering Team Manager to provide high-level expert advice and management to the Highways team in support of all aspects of bridge and structural assets management. You will lead, direct, and manage the team in ensuring statutory and corporate objectives are delivered and ensuring compliance with requirements as set out in Well-managed Highway Infrastructure: A Code of Practice (2016). You will be integral to ensuring the continued successful operation, maintenance, and forward planning of the Council's bridges, retaining structures, and other adopted structural assets.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, direct, and manage the Highways Design and Regulation (Structures) team.
- Provide high-level expert advice and management support.
- Ensure statutory and corporate objectives are delivered.
- Ensure compliance with the Well-managed Highway Infrastructure: A Code of Practice (2016).
- Maintain and plan for the operation and maintenance of the Council's bridges, retaining structures, and other adopted structural assets.
Requirements
- Confident in communicating with stakeholders at all levels including multi-agency partners, Councillors (Parish, District, and County), MPs, utility companies, public transport providers, senior managers, as well as members of the public.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent experience.
- Extensive knowledge and experience in Highway structural engineering.
- High level of awareness of relevant legislation.
- Strong organisational ability.
- Familiarity with budget monitoring and collaborative working.
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Why Join Us?
Calderdale is a beautiful metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, at the heart of the Yorkshire Pennines, between Manchester and Leeds. Its spectacular natural landscape, vibrant towns, quirky culture, tremendous architecture, thriving businesses, and community spirit make it a great place to live, work, and visit. To find out more, please visit: www.visitcalderdale.com
Benefits
- A wide variety of projects to work on, experience to gain, and a wide range of projects to make your mark on.
- A small but dedicated Team, with the opportunities to make your individual mark and see projects all the way through the lifecycle.
- Workload comprising a mix of local and strategic issues.
- Close collaboration with other in-house teams.
- Strong learning culture with a focus on continuous development and access to the wider training and accreditation opportunities with formal links to the ICE.
- Hybrid/flexible working with family-friendly policies.
- Competitive salary package, including an excellent pension.
- Competitive leave entitlement.
- Wellbeing support and staff networks.
- Development and training opportunities.
- Staff discounts and benefits schemes, including salary sacrifice car leasing, cycle scheme, and travel offers.
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Application Details
For full details of the role, please see the attached context sheet.
- Closing Date: 5th October 2026
- Interview Date: w/c 26th October 2026
This role is based in the UK. Home Office guidance states that candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK prior to commencing employment, either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme, or having secured any other relevant work visa.
If you do not have the right to work in the UK, you must consider your own eligibility for sponsorship for a particular role through the Skilled Worker visa route before applying. To be eligible for sponsorship, you'll usually need to be paid the standard salary rate of at least £41,700 per year (unless exceptions apply) and meet the other eligibility criteria. Ensure you are eligible before applying.
We may utilise digital interview methods.
As part of our Vision (https://www.calderdale.gov.uk/vision/), we aim to be a talented, resilient, and inclusive community. We welcome applications from all and offer a variety of flexible working/job share opportunities.
All applications are anonymised before being seen by the selection panel.
As part of our fair recruitment process, we ask that all applications are written by the candidate and that Artificial Intelligence (AI) use is limited, unless assistance is required as a reasonable adjustment for a disability. Content should be truthful, accurate, evidence-based, and not embellished – see guidance.
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