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Are you seeking a role where you can play a vital part working with Greater Manchester Local Highway Authorities, National Highways and other key stakeholders? Are you seeking a new challenge to play an active role in improving the reliability and resilience of Greater Manchester’s highways?

Your Role

We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about improving the performance, reliability and safety of the Greater Manchester highway network.

As Highway Network Manager, you will be responsible for:

* Working in collaboration with the 10 Greater Manchester Local Highway Authorities and National Highways to develop and deliver interventions to improve and maintain journey time reliability along the key transport corridors for all road users.

* Identify issues and problems that lead to congestion and delays on key routes.

* Develop and implement solutions to the causes of congestion.

* Delivery of key corridor route assessments including development of action plans.

For more details see job profile below.

Who are we?

The Key Route Network team form a collaborative function of the wider TfGM Highways Team ensuring regional highways and transport activities are joined up and consistent across the whole Greater Manchester region. We work closely with the GM Highway Authorities and National Highways and a wide range of operational stakeholders and are committed to support the delivery of a transport system that operates safely, sustainably and efficiently. Greater Manchester’s roads are the life blood of the economy. A well-managed highway network is a vital part of a prosperous and forward looking region. These are exciting times in Greater Manchester with massive investments being made in its transport infrastructure along with bringing bus services back into public ownership.

What you’ll bring

What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.

You will have knowledge and understanding of highway network management including, traffic management techniques, procedures and funding sources. Working knowledge of the Traffic Management Act 2004 and the Highways Act 1980 is essential. You will have experience of producing effective business cases and presentations to demonstrate the benefits of highway interventions. A successful record of collaborative working to achieve business objectives and demonstrating negotiating and persuading skills with a variety of stakeholders, especially in a highly complex political environment, in the pursuit of positive outcomes is a requirement of the role.

If you believe you have the skills and experience we’re looking for we would like to hear from you!

What we can offer you

The Highway Network Manager role is a permanent opportunity with a salary of £46,249- £51,576 per annum, salary dependent on skills and experience.

Our benefits include:

* 28 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)

* Flexible and hybrid working options to promote and support a good work/life balance

* Free bus, rail or Metrolink travel to and from work within the Greater Manchester boundary

* Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Scheme which includes life cover of 3x your salary and options to increase your pension contributions

* Commitment to learning and personal development and upskilling with reimbursement of professional fees, where essential to the role

* We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to staff via our employee assistance programme when required

What's next?

If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we’d really like to hear from you. To apply please submit your CV and also provide a covering letter providing clear examples of how your experience meets the requirements of the role, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on either of these documents. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.

TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.

For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist. Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.

Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications