Job Description

About the job.

National Highways is excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a Project Manager to join our team. As a Project Manager, you will play a vital role in ensuring new developments in our East region are well located and planned for and that they work harmoniously with the communities and environments surrounding them. Through building trusted relationships and understanding the needs of our key stakeholders, you will collaborate with local partners, developers, consultants and internal technical specialists in identifying the transport impact of our future projects and the works needed to mitigate any impact. Your expertise will be key to achieving agreed outcomes while adhering to policy and statutory responsibilities.

This role can be based from our Bedford, Cambridge or Ipswich office.

• Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with external stakeholders, consultants, developers and internal technical specialists to develop the National Highways response to planning applications and Local Plans ensuring safety and minimal congestion on the Strategic Road Network.
• Lead programme management, financial reporting and risk management against budgets, ensuring robust financial and contractual practices are in place and adhered to by all project resources.
• Ensure National Highways reputation is maintained throughout delivery of its statutory duties related to planning applications and Local Plans.
• Proactively identify and drive opportunities for NEC contract management improvements and implement required changes in own area of responsibility: champion and share best practices across the planning community.
• Manage and evaluate risks, issues, dependencies and constraints associated with the portfolio, leading the development and implementation of solutions to overcome these.

About you.

• Proven experience in building and managing relationships with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders to achieve successful and collaborative outcomes.
• Experience in town planning -ideally gained within a development management environment and through involvement in Local Plan preparation - is desirable.
• Experience managing NEC contracts, supported by knowledge of project management practices, processes, and controls.
• Strong ability to review and interpret technical documents, working with internal and external specialists to identify key information and coordinate planning policy compliant responses.
• Recognised qualification in relevant engineering discipline or significant experience in the delivery of Civil Engineering projects and portfolios

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England’s motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.

We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Why you should join us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it – then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.

A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.

We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we’re open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our benefits package

• Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
• Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
• Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working
• Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
• Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
• A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
• Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are

• Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
• Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
• Community friendly – offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year

If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:

• Right to work check
• 3 year employment history references
• DBS criminal record check
• Social media and adverse journalism check
• Driving licence check (if applicable)
• Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)
• Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)

And finally

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