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The starting salary for this role is £70,975 per annum, working 36 hours per week.
We are hiring a new Infrastructure Schemes Team Manager to join our Highways, Transport and Network Management Service. This is an exciting, senior role within the wider Place Directorate reporting to the Assistant Director Highways Asset Management with the responsibility to lead a civil engineering team responsible for multi-million-pound design and build and inspection programmes to replace and maintain Surrey Highway's Structures and Drainage assets, including bridges, embankments, retaining walls/barriers.
In this role you will need to travel around the County to meet with your colleagues, contractors and other partners. Our hybrid working arrangements mean that outside of the times you're required to physically attend a Surrey location, you can work from wherever suits you.
Rewards and Benefits
* 26 days' holiday (prorated for part time staff), rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 31 days after 5 years' service
* Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
* An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
* Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
* Paternity, adoption and dependents leave
* A generous local government salary related pension
* Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more
* 2 paid volunteering days per year
* Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
About the Role
To succeed in this role you will be a dynamic and results-driven individual that can lead from the front and deliver results. In a key leadership position within our senior management team, you will be able to lead an effective team to deliver complex projects and programmes of work to ensure that structures and drainage assets do not pose a risk to public safety and create unnecessary disruption to communities.
You will be a part of the Surrey Highways Senior Management Team, who develop and deliver the operational strategies for the service. In this role you will need to ensure that industry innovation and best practice is exploited to maximise cost effectiveness, quality and safety.
As Infrastructure Schemes Team Manager, you will lead experienced teams in delivering activities, including:
* The Structures Inspection and Assessment programmes
* Delivery of planned schemes and routine maintenance for Bridges, Drainage, embankments, retaining walls and vehicle restraint systems
You will be expected to embrace excellent customer service in their approach, ensuring they and their teams put the customer at the heart of everything they do. Your teams will need to adapt based on best practice, technology advancements and funding opportunities and a key part of this role will be helping to shape the team in readiness for Local Government Reorganisation as more is understood about the impacts for Surrey.
Shortlisting Criteria
To be considered for shortlisting, your application will clearly evidence the following:
* An excellent understanding of structures and drainage engineering design and asset management.
* A working knowledge of the Flood and Water Management Act
* Good working understanding project management and value engineering
* Understanding of the CDM-C and Principal Contractor roles on a construction site.
* Demonstrable experience in delivering change at pace within a complex organisation.
Application Process
As part of the application process, you will be asked to upload your CV and answer the following application questions:
1. What are your motivations for applying for this role?
2. Please tell us about your experience of delivering Infrastructure Schemes.
3. Describe a time when you used your stakeholder management and negotiation skills to overcome a problem.
4. Please tell us about a time you constructively challenged existing practice to bring about effective change.
Contact details
For an informal discussion please contact Amanda Richards, Assistant Director of Highways, Asset Management by e-mail or on MS Teams.
The job advert closes a 23:59 on 17/09/2025 with interviews to follow.
This post has been designated as a politically restricted post in accordance with the Local Government and Housing Act 1989.
Local Government Reorganisation
Surrey County Council is preparing for Local Government Reorganisation which will allow us to implement the Government led policy of devolution, which is all about giving more powers to local areas.
Currently, Surrey has a two-tier council system, with 11 district and borough councils and a county council, all responsible for different services. All these councils will be reorganised into a smaller number of new unitary councils which will come into effect in April 2027. At this point, this role will be transferred, with all existing terms and conditions intact into one of the new unitary councils.
Join our dynamic team and shape the future of local government. Make a lasting impact with innovative solutions and improved services for our community. Help us build a brighter future for our residents!
Please see more information here: Information for applicants on Local Government Reorganisation - Surrey County Council
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Our Commitment
Surrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applicants where:
* The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their application
* The candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form
Our application form and onboarding process will provide an opportunity to request any reasonable adjustments for the interview and/or the role. We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.