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Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

About the role

Are you a vibrant leader with a passion for delivering effective cyclical highway maintenance? Join us in shaping the future of our highways!

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to join our team as the Cyclical Highway Maintenance Lead responsible for all routine and cyclical highway maintenance programmes.

This maintenance program is centred around the below theme:

• Drainage and winter maintenance; Ensuring our drains and gulleys are well managed and maintained through regular checks and clearances. Ensuring effective response to winter demands, including the gritting operation and effective response to storm and floods.

In this role, you will be accountable for ensuring the highway network is managed and maintained in a safe manner and ensuring that the lifespan of highways assets is maximised.

For any questions or an informal discussion, please contact Dave by email on Dave.Thomas@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

What will you be doing?

This is an exciting opportunity to lead and manage a team of officers, ensuring the effective delivery of cyclical maintenance works in Cambridgeshire.

You will manage a team of officers who are responsible for planning varied programmes of works at the appropriate frequency across approximately 4,500km of highway.

You will support, train and advise your team and act as a point of escalation for complex cases.

You will ensure the programme of works is delivered in line with Council priorities and policy.

A flexible approach is a must in order to deliver programmed works and to ensure these works are responsive to changing circumstances and data trends.

You will engage with the community and work in collaboration with the Area Maintenance Managers and Cyclical Maintenance Manager ensuring our customers and stakeholders are kept informed of relevant highway works.

About you

We are seeking an exceptional leader with a deep understanding of highways maintenance.

With a strong background in civil engineering, infrastructure, or a related discipline, you bring a wealth of experience in leading services within a large and dynamic organisation.

You will be passionate about delivering high-quality, customer-focused services that make a tangible difference to communities.

Your knowledge of highways, project management techniques, construction, and drainage & winter or green infrastructure maintenance is informed by industry best practice, national standards, experience and design guides.

You will combine technical expertise with excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, enabling you to inspire teams, build strong partnerships, and drive continuous improvement.

You thrive in collaborative environments and leading others whilst incorporating a culture of accountability, professionalism and excellence.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers