Role - Head of Highway Operations
Rate - Inside IR35
Initial 6 month contract - 4 days p/w
Provide vision, strategic direction, and visible leadership for the Highway Operations Service, ensuring delivery against agreed service plan outcomes by providing a safe, innovative, efficient, and effective service.
Overall accountability for the safety and wellbeing of employees, contractors, and those interfacing with our service. Develop and promote a mixed economy delivery model, ensuring a sustainable succession plan and delivering excellent value for money outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Lead the Highway Operations Service in the delivery of all construction, maintenance, and related tasks on the highway network. Act as a figurehead for internal delivery teams.
2. Deputise for the Assistant Director Highways Delivery when necessary.
3. Develop and maintain the reputation of the service internally and externally as a trusted operations service through an ethos of excellence and value feedback from stakeholders to drive improvement.
4. Ensure projects, tasks, and activities are delivered in accordance with best practices, standards, and specifications, using resources effectively.
5. Use the corporate risk management framework to proactively manage risks to service delivery.
6. Deliver adverse weather and emergency works services, including winter maintenance, both in and outside normal hours.
7. Ensure the health, safety, quality, and environmental performance of the service, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and prioritizing safety.
8. Develop a business model to ensure long-term sustainability and maximize value for money from the internal workforce.
9. Create and manage a resourcing strategy, including succession planning and talent management.
10. Provide technical and strategic leadership across highway areas to support management and delivery teams.
11. Manage the construction supply chain, ensuring frameworks and contracting methods meet current and future needs, including long-term partnering strategies.
12. Operate a mature commercial function controlling costs, estimating, and contractual compliance, aligned with corporate governance.
13. Support delivery of tasks for other services within the Place directorate and collaborate with external partners to add value.
14. Develop opportunities for collaboration and share best practices to improve service provision.
15. Implement systems for effective feedback on time, cost, and quality metrics, ensuring risks are managed proactively.
16. Conduct process audits and value-for-money assessments, implementing improvement plans as needed.
17. Maintain a procurement pipeline and ensure compliant strategies for planned procurements.
18. Engage staff in preparing annual service delivery and Value for Money improvement plans.
19. Work with unions to maintain positive industrial relations.
20. Prepare and recommend budget proposals in collaboration with other heads of service for the annual budget submission.
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