Head of Local Transport Operations

Job Description

The Service & Team:

The Sustainable Growth and Development Directorate is at the heart of Cornwall’s ambition to create a thriving, inclusive, and environmentally responsible future. It brings together strategic planning, infrastructure, transport, and environmental services to support sustainable communities and economic growth.

Within this, the Environment and Connectivity Service plays a critical role in delivering integrated transport systems, environmental resilience, and place-based solutions that connect people and places across Cornwall.

The Role

We are seeking a unique leader who is able to provide both strategic and operational leadership to take on the role of Head of Local Transport Operations. This is a pivotal position in shaping and delivering a sustainable, accessible, and integrated transport network across Cornwall.

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

This position will be subject to a basic criminal record disclosure check.

What You’ll Need To Succeed

To be successful in the role, you will need strong leadership and strategic and policy expertise in public and community transport, car parking, and fleet management. You must be financially astute, capable of managing multi-million-pound budgets, and able to embed commercial thinking into service delivery. The role demands a collaborative leader who can work with other services and with communities to achieve agreed outcomes, drive innovation, and lead cultural change. A commitment to inclusive leadership and developing talent is essential.

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.