Highways Maintenance Supervisor

Description

• Liaise with supply chain partners and emergency services to effectively handle issues on the network
• ensure agreed records are kept and physical measurements are undertaken (at interim and upon completion) to support payment for works and ensure evidence of work completed is present and robust
• manage the delivery of bank of works orders and cyclical tasks to the agreed safe working protocols and procedures, delivery programme or timescales.
• Support the Operations Manager to ensure rota’s provide 24/7 network coverage and emergency response whilst observing individuals’ working hour limits.
• supervise operational staff on a daily basis, including competency assessments of individuals carrying out tasks, monitoring performance, monitoring sickness absence, identifying any training needs and conducting inductions for new staff
• Reporting all health and safety incidents involving CHC and supply chain staff to the Operations Team Managers
• Conduct regular depot inspections and taking responsibility for actions arising
• Ensure compliance with the CHC Integrated Management System for day-to-day operational activities
• ensuring that all plant and equipment is maintained, checked and put to work in compliance with safe working protocols and legislative requirements and is fully utilised.
• Supervisory responsibility for Health and Safety of the workforce including conducting ‘toolbox talks’ and the communication of other health and safety policies, changes and alerts.
• Maintain a common daily diary, logging actions and ensuring an appropriate hand-over occurs between shifts with colleagues
• Ensure CHC and parent company information, including changes to work procedures, are communicated effectively and made readily available to all of the workforce, via notice boards, team briefings etc.
• programme, allocate, manage and record staffing, plant and material resources effectively on a daily basis to achieve the allocated works
• Check and authorise timesheet submissions from operational staff to ensure correct coding and to monitor hours worked aligned to the agreed management plans for fatigue management.
• Effectively manage works;
• Ensure vehicle and depot security and maintenance, liaising with the Works Manager and the Plant and Transport Manager as required
• Management of teams and individuals;

Requirements

• Be able to demonstrate where you have identified a risk to safe methods of working and developed or suggested a change that was implemented
• Ability to manage plant and equipment resources, and supervise their safe operation and use
• Desirable: Class 2 HGV License; first aid at work.
• Experience of managing a team of operatives (including line management functions of manging leave requests, basic sickness issues and performance management).
• Skills or experience of undertaking a range of minor works, landscaping works and maintenance activities desirable
• Ability to plan, allocate and supervise tasks to teams
• Essential: team player, good communication skills and confident speaking to the public and wider team, ability to work at nights, weekends and unsociable hours as required with an on call requirement.
• Working on a high speed road network is desirable
• Desirable: familiarity with the Confirm system and with electronic works management systems preferred.
• Essential: Educated to at least GCSE (O-Level); SMSTS; CSCS card

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance