Overview
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Are you ready to lead a team that keeps our highways safe, efficient, and well-maintained? Balfour Beatty is looking for a proactive and experienced Lead Highway Steward to join our Network Management team in East Sussex. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real impact in your community while developing your leadership and operational skills.
Responsibilities
* Team Leadership: Manage and support a team of Highway Stewards, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of inspections and maintenance activities.
* Safety Inspections: Conduct routine and reactive highway inspections, identify defects, assess risks, and raise work orders.
* Customer Engagement: Handle enquiries and claims professionally, liaising with residents, councillors, and stakeholders.
* Quality Assurance: Perform audits to ensure right first time standards and support process improvements.
* Operational Support: Provide administrative and operational assistance to the Highway Stewards and Assurance Manager, including deputising when required.
* Stakeholder Collaboration: Represent Balfour Beatty at meetings and forums, promoting a collaborative and professional image.
Essential
* Experience in highways inspections or operations
* Line management experience
* Strong knowledge of highways maintenance standards and policies
* Excellent communication and customer service skills
* Proven leadership and organisational abilities
* Confident in stakeholder engagement, including elected members
* Good IT skills and familiarity with works management systems
* Full UK driving licence
* Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Desirable
* Performance management capabilities
* Strong problem-solving and prioritisation skills
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Benefits
* Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
* 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
* Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
* Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...
About Us
Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers AFBE. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Other
Industries
* Construction
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