Ringway Jacobs
Highways Resilience Manager
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Highways Resilience Manager
Location: Congleton
Type: Permanent, Full Time
The Role
The Highways Resilience Manager will be responsible for the delivery of the Local Highways functions including Senior/Local Highways team, S58 inspections and emergency response and winter maintenance.
Responsibilities
- Management of the Senior and Local Highways Team, to ensure management and response to Councillor enquiries and customer enquiries is adequately managed and responded to in accordance with policy timescales.
- Management of the S58 Inspectors to ensure routine and ad-hoc inspections are completed on time and in line with policy requirements.
- Ensure the management and delivery of the winter maintenance service, including the production of the ‘Adverse Weather Plan’ and decision making based on weather data and reports.
- Management of the Resilient Network Officer and management of both in hours and out of hours emergency response provision.
- Co-ordination between S58 Inspectors, Resilient Network Officers and Senior/Local Highway officers to ensure issues are co-ordinated.
About You
- Experience of working in a highways related role, either local highways, inspections or winter service/contingency planning.
- Experience in engaging with Councillors and the public in relation to highways issues.
- Thorough working knowledge of health and safety legislation and codes of practice.
- Understanding of highway maintenance methods and techniques, best practice, and technologies.
- HNC in highways or civil engineering is desirable.
- Excellent internal and client communication skills.
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Benefits
At Ringway Jacobs we recognise that our people make the difference, and in order to do what we do well, particular care is taken in nurturing and investing in our people. That’s why you will always be given the opportunity to utilise your expertise and develop your career.
Ringway Jacobs recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles. We therefore welcome applications from people looking for an alternative working pattern e.g. part-time hours, job share etc. Please let us know on your CV or cover letter if this is what you are looking for.
In return for your hard work you will receive:
- Sick Pay
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to purchase up to 5 days extra leave
- A variety of discounts through our “RJ Rewards” app, including restaurants, holidays, days out etc
- Life Assurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension scheme
The Company
We are Ringway Jacobs, a leading highways service provider working with local authorities across the UK. Formed in 2005, specifically to provide road network management solutions to local government, our unique blend of engineering capability, innovation and customer care make us the best in class. We support over 10,000 miles of highways, 10,000 miles of footway, almost 7,800 miles of public rights of way and 242,000 street lights. We excel in delivering safe, sustainable service excellence, through our passion, integrity and collaborative culture.
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Ringway Jacobs is an equal opportunities employer. We wish to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all our employees. As part of this commitment, we proudly support the Armed Forces Community by identifying roles for which we can offer a guaranteed interview to service leavers, veterans, reservists, cadet force adult volunteers, and military spouses/partners who meet the essential criteria for the position.
If you require further details, please contact our Recruitment Team on 0330 311 2502 or e-mail them on careers@ringwayjacobs.com, or click on the “Apply Now” button. This will take you to a login page, where you will need to create an account to continue your application. Once you have created an account you will be able to see where your application is up to and apply for other opportunities within Ringway Jacobs.
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