Contract and Capital Delivery Team Manager

As a Team Manager within the Highways & Transport service, your role will be responsible for the financial management of the team revenue budget as well as the capital expenditure budgets. You will be overseeing and managing the Contract and Capital Delivery Service which consists of the following teams:

Design service
Planned highway maintenance
TMO service
Street lighting
Land Survey & Traffic Survey Teams
When joining us, you will ensure that the design service is quality assured and you will be working on projects such as:

Planned maintenance programme
Street Lighting Capital Renewal Programme in Sutton, CMS Procurement and Implementation for Kingston & Sutton
Delivering the Local Implementation Plan Programme (LIP) for both boroughs
We are a hybrid working organisation and the expectation is that you will work at least two days a week in the office/on site.

We're looking for an experienced Highways & Transport professional that has the knowledge of contracts, highways & traffic designs., Degree in relevant discipline; Engineering, Highways, Transport, or equivalent significant experience
Leadership experience and ability to manage, improve and develop the service delivery
Clear & effective communication skills
Be highly organised, juggling priorities under pressure
Ability to effectively manage budgets
Ability to work collaboratively across the service and with elected members
Ability to develop a commercial mindset to the service and implement projects in accordance with Project Management principals and framework
Is competent with Digital & IT processes
Have political awareness
Leadership and management qualification and Membership of relevant institutions is desirable, Disability Confident
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Kingston and Sutton councils have a number of shared services serving both authorities, with some teams and roles more focussed on one council than the other, but the majority are shared across both, meaning you get multiple opportunities to learn from a wider pool of activities and two different political bodies.

We work flexibly in both Kingston and Sutton offices, and support working at home or flexible working patterns that enable you to tailor your working and personal life. We provide the equipment and tools to enable you to work flexibly, and in return ask you to use that flexibility to be creative and ambitious in the services we deliver.

There are some really exciting things happening in both boroughs. In Sutton, we are developing the London Cancer Hub, a world leading cancer research and treatment hub that will bring together professionals from across different sectors to identify and test new treatments and therapies. Over in Kingston, we are undertaking the largest housing regeneration programme ever delivered in the borough, building new energy efficient housing that will transform some of our oldest Council owned housing. Both boroughs have publicly committed to doing what they can to tackle the climate emergency and are investing in new technologies and societal change that will help bring carbon emissions down and improve our climate impact.

You should choose Kingston and Sutton if you are looking for an opportunity that will challenge you to deliver more, support you to achieve personal ambitions, and expect you to put borough residents at the heart of what you do.

Kingston is a beautiful Royal borough with a historic setting on the banks of the Thames with excellent schools and a bustling retail centre, all surrounded by open green spaces such as Richmond Park and Bushey Park, former recreation grounds for Tudor Kings and Queens. The Council is controlled by a Liberal Democrat Administration and has a council plan "Greener, Fairer, Safer, Together", that sets out a vision to be a vibrant, diverse and inclusive borough where residents are active, empowered, engaged and able to remain independent and resilient. The Council engages with residents through a number of forums and events through the year, and like Sutton plays a leading role in developing the South West Region of London.

Sutton is a well connected attractive part of London that has a reputation for excellent schools, green and leafy open spaces, and a history that drives a thriving heritage and culture offer through our museums and libraries. The Council is controlled by a long established Liberal Democrat Administration and has high ambitions set out in its corporate plan "Ambitious for Sutton", that will ensure Sutton remains a great place to live, work and raise a family. The Council plays a leading role in a number of local partnerships and places great emphasis on engaging effectively with its residents, listening to local voices and making their message heard across London Government., The team is made of 25 staff, across 4 disciplines, delivering planned capital projects onto the ground from start to finish. The team is a multidisciplinary team of highway designers, planned maintenance engineers, street lighting engineers, traffic order officers, land surveyors and traffic survey officers. The team coordinates to deliver projects of varying sizes on behalf of the Royal Borough of Kingston and the London Borough of Sutton.

This is a progressive highways service looking to become one of the best in London. The design service offers the rare mix of delivering feasibility design through all staff to site supervision during the implementation stage. The planned maintenance is benefitting from a doubling of budget allowing enlarged programmes and innovation.