Job Description
Head of Highway Operations
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 that interface our service. Through a blend of direct employees (c200), local and national frameworks, this role will be developed and promote a mixed economy delivery model, ensuring that the council has a sustainable succession plan, whilst evidencing 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 (currently known as Highway Construction Services – HCS).
2. Where necessary, deputise for the Assistant Director Highways Delivery.
3. Develop, promote and maintain the reputation of the service internally and externally as a trusted operations service through an excellence right first time ethos. Value feedback from stakeholders and use it to drive improvement in the service.
4. Ensure that instructed projects, tasks and activities are delivered taking account of best practice, agreed specifications, standards whilst ensuring that available r...