Traffic & Road Safety Team Leader

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Traffic & Road Safety Team Leader to come and join a busy council in the Manchester area on an initial 12 month contract basis.
 
The main duties of the experienced Traffic & Road Safety Team Leader are:

• Lead and manage a Traffic and Road Safety team, ensuring effective delivery of projects and day-to-day operational activities.
• Develop and implement strategic and operational plans for traffic management and road safety initiatives.
•  Provide expert technical advice on highways, traffic engineering, transport planning, and road safety matters.
• Oversee the planning, design, and delivery of traffic management schemes, road safety improvements, and highway projects.
• Develop and implement processes for accident data collection, analysis, reporting, and performance monitoring.
• Analyse traffic data, collision statistics, congestion issues, and network performance to identify priorities and recommend improvements.
• Manage workload allocation and ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to required standards.
• Work collaboratively with internal departments, external organisations, contractors, and stakeholders to deliver transport and highway objectives.
• Support the development of transport strategies, traffic modelling, construction management plans, road closures, and servicing strategies.
• Develop and maintain programmes aimed at improving road safety, reducing congestion, and encouraging sustainable travel.
• Lead initiatives to improve road safety around schools, including parking management, speed reduction measures, and active travel schemes.
• Manage cycling education and training programmes, including securing funding, procuring services, and monitoring delivery.
• Assess requests for highway improvements, including resident parking schemes, waiting restrictions, junction improvements, and traffic calming measures.
• Develop prioritisation criteria for highway improvement schemes based on safety, demand, network performance, and community needs.
• Maintain records of network issues, congestion hotspots, collision locations, and proposed improvement schemes.
• Work with planning and development teams to ensure new developments include appropriate highway and traffic mitigation measures.
• Produce reports, business cases, and technical recommendations to support decision-making and project approval.
• Ensure compliance with relevant highways legislation, engineering standards, health and safety requirements, and best practice guidance.
• Monitor team performance, set objectives, conduct appraisals, and support staff development and continuous improvement.
• Manage financial and operational resources effectively to achieve service objectives.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with communities, stakeholders, and partner organisations to support successful project delivery.
•  Promote continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance processes, services, and operational performance.
• Ensure equality, diversity, and inclusion are embedded in service delivery and team management.
• Keep up to date with changes in legislation, policy, industry standards, and emerging technologies relevant to highways, traffic, and road safety.

For a full description and further information on the role, please call Harriet Simmonds at Carrington West on (phone number removed).

FOOTNOTE:

If you feel that you are right for this role technically, but the rate, location, or seniority does not suit you specifically then please still feel free to send us your CV. We constantly recruit for roles very similar to this one at all levels UK Wide. We are always keen to chat with you discreetly about your employment situation.
Even if you are happy in your current role for now, we always welcome calls from Highways, Drainage & Infrastructure professionals keen to make their introductions for future months or years. Our specialist team has a combined 40+ years'' experience in this market. Please call Harriet at Carrington West on (phone number removed) for more information.
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