Team Leader Roads Projects - ABC

Job Description

The main purpose of the role is to lead and manage the Roads Projects team to provide a professional Civil Engineering Design and Construction Service for the Authority. Alongside this, maintain and develop Corporate Policy and Standards relating to technical matters for the City’s existing and new roads and transportation assets. Provide technical advice to other sections of the Council, Community Plan partners and other councils whilst also contributing towards corporate/national working groups as the Authority’s technical lead.

Perform the role of Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/ Balmedie to Tipperty Assistant Managing Agent.

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.

• A Chartered Engineer with the Engineering Council and a member of a relevant institution
• An Incorporated Engineer with the Engineering Council and a member of a relevant institution with extensive relevant experience
• Degree in a relevant discipline

• Demonstrate that you have developed/delivered major roads projects
• Demonstrate that you have delivered projects to programme and budget against a backdrop of competing demands for time and team 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 to achieve excellence in service delivery and organisational capability

• 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

• 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

• Occasionally attend meetings outside working hours
• Occasionally travel outside the city to attend meetings, conferences etc on behalf of the Council
• Work at alternative locations as required

• Support the preparation of the Council for upcoming legislative developments; communicate and consult with all stakeholders, internally and externally, to ensure a collaborative approach; report to committees and obtain appropriate authorisation prior to implementation
• Lead the standards for the health and safety of the service and ensure, through liaising with the Health and Safety team, that all relevant health and safety practices are implemented
• Maintain awareness and ensure the service is compliant with the Council’s responsibilities under legislation relevant to the team’s area of responsibility
• Be responsible for the application of, and compliance with, Council policies and procedures in all areas of managerial and statutory responsibility

• Ensure the Roads Projects service is designed strategically and operationally in line with agreed Council vision and policy
• Monitor and report to the Chief Officer in relation to relevant revenue and capital budgets for the team; comply with Financial Regulations and Standing Orders; manage allocated budgets; ensure financial resources are sourced and used to…