Permanent
Highways Programme & Major Projects Manager
Highways Programme & Major Projects Manager
Job Location: Gloucester, Shire Hall, Block 5, 5th Floor
Salary: £65,471 - £70,398 per annum
Hours per Week: 37.00
Contract Type: Permanent
Are you ready to take up a vital role in shaping some of our exciting projects? Looking for an exciting new challenge working with a team to secure investment and improve the highways within Gloucestershire?
About The Team & Role
This is an exciting time for a talented, self-driven professional to join our team at Gloucestershire County Council. Working as a member of the senior leadership team, you will have full accountability for managing the commissioning of multi-million-pound highways capital works, managing the development and production of the future programme of works to meet the Council’s objectives.
You will be responsible for delivering diverse and technically demanding highways projects in line with budgetary compliance, regulatory and planning controls, and will demonstrate significant technical knowledge and experience.
About You
As the Programme & Major Projects Manager we will rely on your excellent organisational skills to allow you to prioritise workloads and ensure our service levels are maintained. Working in collaboration with all key stakeholders, contractors, the media and partners, building working relationships under tight deadlines and targets.
Importantly, the Programme & Major Projects Manager has responsibility for delivering our ambitious programme of infrastructure projects, managing our project management resources and coordinating programme demands. Using industry experience to work with stakeholders, manage expectations, effectively challenge and drive delivery is imperative in this role. Confidence and commercial experience in managing, negotiating and finding creative resolutions in highways contracts is a key part of the role.
The skills required to deliver such a programme are considerable and require an understanding of project and programme management, procurement and commissioning of infrastructure projects, stakeholder engagement, commercial negotiation and contract procurement, transport planning and statutory legal processes.
About Us
As you’d expect, we offer an attractive package of benefits which makes a career in Local Government both flexible and rewarding.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for many of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family
• Career development and qualification opportunities
• Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• An in-house Occupational Health service
• Employee discount scheme
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network. Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply)
How to apply
If you are a creative individual with the ability to help us deliver the Council’s ambitious infrastructure programme, we would like to hear from you.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Carol Moule via email at [email protected]
Closing Date: 20th August 2023
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