Team Leader Roads Projects (Internal)

Role Requirements

This section includes what the post holder needs to carry out the role or, for recruitment purposes, enables applicants to decide whether they meet these requirements.

Minimum Qualification(s) / Certificates / Memberships etc. required

· A Chartered Engineer with the Engineering Council and a member of a relevant institution

or

· An Incorporated Engineer with the Engineering Council and a member of a relevant institution with extensive relevant experience.

· Degree in a relevant discipline

As a minimum, demonstrate skills and experience in

· Be able to demonstrate that they have developed/ delivered major roads projects.

· Be able to demonstrate that they have delivered projects to programme and budget against a backdrop of competing demands for their time and their team’s resources.

· Excellent people management skills.

· Proven record at management level of delivering required results within a customer focused organisation.

· Established and maintained successful, complex internal and external relationships across a variety of forums.

· Effectively designed and developed policies and procedures to ensure statutory compliance, improve service delivery and achieve organisational aims.

· Proven record of maximising resources and enhancing the quality ethos to ensure efficiency and best value.

· Effectively managed resources including human, property, financial and ICT in order to achieve excellence in service delivery and organisational capability.

As a minimum, demonstrate an understanding of

· Highway design and construction including geotechnical engineering, bridges/structures, land/topographic surveying, environmental issues affecting transportation/roads projects.

· Relevant Health and Safety legislation and regulations relating to design and construction.

· Compulsory purchase and landowner compensation regulations and processes.

· Roads & Transportation legislation.

· Relevant design and technical standards.

· Relevant forms of contract.

· Procurement and contractual risks

· Project management and delivery.

Demonstrate commitment to

· A programme of Continuous Professional Development to maintain Chartered or Incorporated Engineer (CEng/ IEng) qualified status.

· The principles of the Target Operating Model

· The Local Outcome Improvement Plan

· The priorities and aims of Aberdeen City Council

Other requirements

· Occasionally attend meetings outwith working hours.

· Occasionally travel outwith the city to attend meetings, conferences etc on behalf of the Council.

· Work at alternative locations as required.

• Manage the team’s workloads and ensure resource management is maximised to maintain or exceed the performance requirements of the team.
• Manage all reporting requirements, committee or otherwise, and ensure the relevant governance is adhered to at all times.
• Allocate, monitor and report to the Chief Officer on all project and budget matters, acting as a budget holder.
• Support the provision of technical advice to all Council services where required.
• Contributing towards corporate/ national working groups as the Authority’s technical lead.
• Promote a culture of Health and Safety and foster an open and transparent environment for the highest standards of safety.
• Deputise for the Chief Officer as required.
• Deputise for the AWPR Managing Agent as required.