Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
Play a key role in leading on the delivery of sustainable transport and road safety programmes.
The Transport Strategy service deliver capital transport infrastructure projects and road safety schemes. Having secured funding for a 5-year programme our aim is to improve infrastructure for buses, as well as walking and cycling for those that live, work and visit the city. This role leads a team of dedicated and highly qualified Engineers and Project Managers to deliver the departments transport capital programme.
This is a full-time, permanent positions working 37 hours per week from Monday to Friday. Based at City Hall, with some flexibility to work from home at times. However, you’ll work across the city to visit projects on site, attend project meetings, all of which will be a combination of face to face and online.
What you’ll be doing
Managing a team of highly skilled professionals, you’ll lead on the delivery of a programme of works including procurement exercises and stakeholder engagement to promote and deliver projects. You’ll provide technical guidance to colleagues, manage budgets, and chair meetings with internal and external teams. You’ll present to politicians and senior management, as well as liaise with consultants, contractors, and members of the public. Working closely with your team, service managers, and the programme manager, you’ll ensure programmes are delivered successfully within set timescales and to budget.
What you’ll need
With strong leadership skills, you’ll have substantial experience of managing and guiding transport professionals in a busy transport or highway work environment. A proven track record of delivering large, complex transport infrastructure projects in urban or rural areas. You must have extensive experience of transport engineering to manage a team of engineers and project managers. You’ll have experience of partnership working especially with a wide range of people including senior management. Using a high level of verbal and written communication skills, you’ll be able to present complex information clearly and concisely to stakeholders and command the confidence of others. Self-motivated, with a flexible approach and commitment to successfully delivering projects, you’ll create a professional and positive working environment.
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
Join us
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
For a chat about this post, please feel free to contact Satbir Kaur, via email to [email protected]
