Head of Infrastructure & Resilience

Job Description

The Service & Team:

The Sustainable Growth and Development Directorate leads Cornwall’s transformation through strategic infrastructure, environmental stewardship, and sustainable development. It supports the Council’s vision for a connected, low-carbon, and resilient Cornwall.

The Environment and Connectivity Service is responsible for delivering critical infrastructure and environmental services, including highways, flood and coastal resilience, and maritime operations. It ensures that Cornwall’s communities are supported by safe, sustainable, future-ready systems and well-maintained infrastructure.

The Role

We are looking for a visionary leader to join us as Head of Infrastructure & Resilience. This role will be the Council’s lead officer in ensuring the safety, sustainability, and resilience of Cornwall’s critical infrastructure.

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

What You’ll Need To Succeed

As Head of Infrastructure & Resilience, success will require extensive technical knowledge of highways, flood and coastal risk management, and maritime operations, balanced with strategic oversight of large-scale infrastructure programmes. You must be experienced in contract and asset management, with the ability to manage a complex financial portfolio and represent Cornwall in regional and national forums. Strong leadership, a systems-thinking approach, and the ability to drive innovation, workforce development, and inclusive practice are key to delivering resilient, community-focused services.

What You’ll Get In Return

Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our Core Employee Rewards And Benefits Include

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information

Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact [email protected]

About Us

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options .

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.