Project Team Manager

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About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and energetic individual to lead and manage the ITS design team in designing and delivering highway improvement schemes from inception to completion of construction. Current schemes can be found here Highway improvements - Dorset Council

The Highway Improvements Team in the Assets and Infrastructure Service comprises five project teams who design and deliver a range of highway improvements from cycleways to link roads. Dorset Council has been very successful in attracting external funding for new sustainable transport, road safety and highway improvements schemes recently and the improvements team are in the forefront of delivering a range of exciting new projects.

Maintaining a great county for people to live, work and visit, depends on the infrastructure and environments that we improve and create. Join us and you could play a major role in enhancing the infrastructure of this beautiful rural setting, home of the famous Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.

We prioritise support, learning, development, and wellbeing across our workforce. We also offer hybrid and flexible working that promotes a healthy work-life balance.

Based in Dorchester, close to the Heritage Coast, this role provides an exciting opportunity to lead the design and delivery of highway improvements, with an emphasis on traffic signals and ITS (intelligent transport systems) schemes.

What you can expect to be doing

• Lead and manage a team comprising experienced engineers and trainees delivering a programme of schemes funded both from internal and external sources.
• Ensure that your team are suitably trained and skilled and that they operate in line with the Council's behaviours framework.
• Monitor and manage your team's health and wellbeing, and signpost staff to support where necessary.
• Use your strong collaboration and communication skills to ensure projects are delivered on time and budget, and in accordance with the scheme objectives.
• Be able to provide technical advice and guidance to support the team's ITS design work and to ensure that developers schemes meet Dorset standards.
• Ensure that Dorset remains at the forefront of innovation for best value, low carbon ITS solutions.
• Fulfil the Principal Designer function under CDM and oversee the Designer roles and responsibilities
• Engage with elected members and communicate key messages with evidence and recommendations, to assist members with decision making.

In return, Dorset Council offers a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities, including management training and support.

Dorset Council embraces a hybrid working culture that allows a mix of home and office working. Occasionally you may be required to attend meetings out of hours either in person or online.

About You

You will need to be able to demonstrate the following attributes:

• Educated to at least HNC/HND level. An Incorporated Engineer (IEng) with ambition to progress to Chartered Engineer status.
• A good knowledge of highway design principles, construction standards and highway contracts.
• Technical knowledge allowing you to lead on ITS schemes, ensuring that design work comp lies with internal processes and procedures as well as national standards and guidance.
• A sound understanding of project management, resource planning and budgetary control in relation to highways, road safety and sustainable transport schemes.
• The ability to find innovative solutions to problems based on sound evidence.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills and the ability to apply these as required, with internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent leadership, management and coaching skills with which you will encourage others to achieve their full potential.
• Experience in Local Government processes, including commissioning and procurement, stakeholder engagement and public consultation.
• A willingness and ability to establish and maintain effective relationships at all levels.

Further Information

For an informal conversation please contact Colin Moors [email protected]

This is a full time role at 37 hours per week.

About Us

We're passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.

At Dorset Council we:

• provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
• have ambitious aspirations
• are excited about our future
• care about Dorset and all the people who live here
• know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success

You will:

• have access to a range of employee benefits
• be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
• have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression

We are challenging ourselves to become a more diverse and inclusive organisation.

We recognise that recruitment and inclusion of individuals with diverse skills, perspectives and backgrounds will bring real strength to the council and our communities. We have a commitment to equality and welcome applications from everyone.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.

We are keen to make our interviews accessible. Let us know on your job application if you have a disability and need any reasonable adjustments.

We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours . We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

If appointed, the personal information we collect from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found at https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn .

This role is UK based and we will need to establish your Right to Work as part of the appointment process.

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