Job Description

The Roads Strategy Manager plays a key role in developing the vehicular components of the Expansion Surface Access Strategy (SAS), with accountability for defining, assuring, and coordinating highways and road‑related elements required to support the Development Consent Order (DCO) application. The role ensures that highways and transport modelling is robust, compliant with the Planning Act 2008 and EIA Regulations, and aligned with the expectations of statutory stakeholders, enabling a timely DCO submission while reducing delivery and examination risk.

Acting as the subject‑matter lead for roads and surface access, the Roads Strategy Manager translates DCO requirements into clear direction for technical consultants and modelling suppliers. The role also supports engagement with National Highways and local highway authorities, working collaboratively to agree modelling assumptions, mitigation strategies, and solutions that support both regulatory compliance and the wider expansion programme objectives.

• Contribute to the development of vehicular‑related components of the Expansion Surface Access Strategy for the DCO, working across modes including passenger, colleague, freight, taxi and private hire, active travel, construction vehicles, and parking.
• Support the development of highways‑related monitoring and mitigation strategies for inclusion in the Expansion DCO, ensuring alignment with programme objectives and statutory requirements.
• Provide leadership, direction, and constructive challenge to consultants to ensure Surface Access strategy outputs meet ANPS requirements, stakeholder expectations, and deliver value for money.
• Act as an informed client‑side representative in engagement with National Highways and local highway authorities, including the development of high‑quality Statements of Common Ground (SoCG) for highways‑related stakeholders.
• Translate DCO, Airports National Policy Statement, Environmental Impact Assessment, and statutory obligations into clear, consistent guidance, providing assurance that highways evidence is robust, internally consistent, and defensible at DCO examination.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate highways‑related risks impacting consent, cost, or schedule, producing technical papers, briefings, and presentations, and advising the wider DCO and EIA programme on dependencies, risks, and decision points.

• Significant experience in roads, highways or transport planning within major infrastructure or DCO / NSIP programmes.
• Experience of working in complex multi-disciplinary environment where collaboration and integration are central to delivery
• Proven experience managing and assuring transport modelling and assessment work delivered by external consultants.
• Experience engaging with National Highways and/or local highway authorities.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to present technical information clearly to a range of audiences.

Ideally, you will also have

• Direct experience supporting DCO submission and/or examination.
• Knowledge of highways mitigation design, traffic management and operational access strategies.
• Experience working within multi ‑disciplinary EIA or consenting programmes.

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Our rewards

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance-based annual bonuses and our longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market-leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we’ll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we’ll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you’ll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions.

Working Location

Our Hybrid working approach offers the opportunity for colleagues in some roles to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of HeathrowWorking arrangements vary from team to team and will be confirmed during the recruitment process. You’ll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.

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Equal Opportunities

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