Highways Maintenance Team Leader

CHC is a Jacobs and Costain 50-50 joint venture (JV) carrying out the maintenance and response services in relation to the Strategic Road Network in National Highways Area 14 network. This contract is for the provision of cyclic maintenance, reactive maintenance, incident response and severe weather response. Area 14 covers the area from A1(M)/ A168 junction near Ripon in the south, the Berwick upon Tweed in the north and to Barnard Castle on the A66 and Haltwhistle on the A69 in the west, extending to the coast in the east. As a highways team leader you will provide line management and supervision to a team of highway operatives and have a maximum of 4 direct reports at any given time. You will be responsible for supervising the delivery of works on the network and supporting the highways maintenance operatives as required to undertake all aspects of highway maintenance across the Area 14 Network under the National Highways Maintenance & Response Contract. You will be responsible for ensuring that the delivery is aligned to the agreed working plans, safely and to agreed timescales. As the team leader you will also be required to address issues or queries from members of the public whilst delivering services and support the wider CHC team in recording works undertaken, any changes or disruption encountered. You will be part of a team of 7 team leaders and wider team of approx. 60 persons delivering these essential services to the road network across the North East. This role will require shift working, antisocial hours and some on call commitments as part of the standard working pattern.