Do you have a talent for leading maintenance services, managing complex assets and delivering high-quality projects?
Are you keen to shape the future of parking asset maintenance, ensuring car parks and on-street infrastructure remain safe, accessible and fit for purpose?
Do you enjoy working with contractors, technical specialists and operational teams to solve problems and deliver excellent services for residents and visitors?
Can you inspire and support a diverse team whilst championing health and safety, continuous improvement and inclusive service delivery?
This role is permanent
Interviews to be held: to be confirmed
There is full information about the role below and attached but, if you would like an informal discussion, please contact Merran Wrigley Head of Parking Services email [email protected]
About the role
The Transport Maintenance Team plays a vital role in meeting City Infrastructure’s aims, to ensure the parking assets and the councils car parks are maintained and controlled effectively. The team carry out first line and a programme of routine maintenance to protect the council’s parking assets, ensuring they meet all Health and Safety standards, maximising the life of equipment, and protecting parking revenue.
As a Maintenance Manager you will have extensive knowledge of building management and maintenance. You will be responsible for identifying impacts and risks and responding appropriately with health and safety at the forefront of all your decision making. This is an exciting role, where you will be managing planned annual maintenance cycles, one-off repair programmes delivered by third-party suppliers, and large-scale refurbishment projects whilst ensuring day-to-day, routine maintenance is carried out efficiently to keep our carparks operational 24/7.
You will have strong people leadership skills, managing a team who predominately lone work on site throughout the city. You will be able to mentor and unite the team through periods of change. You will have strong collaboration skills and have experience working as a subject matter expert in cross functional teams on complex and high-profile projects.
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.
