Brighton & Hove Council

Head of Transport Projects & Engineering
Brighton and Hove
Salary: £62,747 - £68,713
Job reference: orbis/TP/174966/33463
Full time – permanent

Job introduction
The Transport Projects & Engineering team provides a critical service for the city, maintaining and improving its highest-value asset. The team is responsible for managing and maintaining the city’s carriageway surfaces, drainage, footways and other highway assets in a way that best meets the needs of the present without passing on unaffordable costs to future generations. This involves balancing numerous calls on a multi-million-pound budget for highway repairs and preventative work and ensuring there is a robust inspection and repair regime in place.

About the role
As the Head of Service, you will use a variety of established and innovative civil engineering approaches to lead and deliver value for money and excellent standards of service on the public highway. Through programming and public consultation, you’ll aim to minimise the adverse effects and disruption of highway works, whilst ensuring public safety and the integrity of the highway network.

Brighton & Hove is a great place to live, learn, work and visit. Our diverse and vibrant community is passionate about the city and there’s a shared commitment to celebrating and promoting all that makes Brighton & Hove so unique. We also welcome more than 11 million visitors to the city each year as a worldwide destination of choice.

The Transport Projects & Engineering Team is based within City Transport and the Economy, Environment and Culture directorate. The directorate works with city and regional partners to support low carbon economic growth and maintain an attractive, connected, and well-run city for residents, businesses and visitors. It’s leading the city’s programme of recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and progress towards carbon neutrality by 2030.

We offer great terms and conditions including the Local Government Pension Scheme, excellent training and development, generous annual leave and staff discounts.

Closing Date: 23 July 2023.

Interview Date: 31 July 2023.

(Shortlisting will take place on Monday 24th July and you will be informed on Tuesday 25th July 2023).

Please email [email protected] if you wish to discuss this role in more detail.

As part of your application, you will need to complete your education and work history and provide answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk)) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

This role is politically restricted. For further information on what this means for employees in post, please click on the document attachment below.

Where applicants meet the criteria, we will be able to cover the cost (of up to £10,000) for relocation. We can also offer a deposit rental loan scheme where we cover all or part of a deposit for a new rental property.

Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

Work Permits: We may be able to obtain a Work Permit for this post but this is subject to meeting the requirements of the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) Points-based Immigration System. Please see Gov.uk for more information on the Skilled Worker Visa.

We offer the opportunity for the suitable candidate to choose to work in a hybrid way. Your specific working arrangements will be subject to team and service working arrangements already in place alongside Government guidance. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us (brighton-hove.gov.uk)

Company information
Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).