Service Manager - Highways & Transportation

CompanyWakefield Council

LocationWakefield, England, United Kingdom

Posted At12/4/2025

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Description

Application closing date

21/12/2025

Location

Wakefield One, Burton St, Wakefield WF1 2EB

Salary

£80,658.00, Grade 16, 37 hours, Permanent

Are you ready to take on a strategic leadership role that shapes the future of transportation and infrastructure?

Join us as a Service Manager - Highways & Transportation and become a key player in delivering the Council’s functions and duties under the Highways Act 1980, Traffic Management Act 2004, and related legislation.

We are an ambitious and high-achieving council, dedicated to continuous improvement and innovation. We seek talented and committed individuals who share our vision and values.

This dynamic role involves:

Long-term transportation and infrastructure planning, through the development of the Council’s transportation strategy and related policy development.
Close collaboration with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority to achieve shared transport objectives.
Efficient delivery of capital projects and programmes, including major highway schemes, highway maintenance, and safer roads programmes. You will work closely with colleagues managing the Council’s operational depots and commissioning works by private sector providers.
Network management, including street works, reactive maintenance, improvements to existing highways (S278), and adoption of new highways (S38).
All aspects of road and pedestrian safety, including the delivery of a safer roads programme.
Management of the Council’s on-street and off-streetcar parking provision and civil parking enforcement.
Assisting the Local Planning Authority by assessing the impact of spatial strategies and development proposals on highway and transport networks.

What can you expect?

31 days of holidays plus bank holidays.
Support and ongoing training.
Discounted and subsidised public transport (Arriva Bus Annual Travel Ticket, Northern Trains Limited (NTL), MetroCard).
The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
A great range of benefits, including discounted membership to our excellent leisure facilities, a free 12-week exercise program with a dedicated personal trainer, discounts for a range of retail, entertainment, health, and leisure providers, a cycle-to-work scheme, and many more.

Come join us and make a tangible impact on our community’s future!