Contract Type : Permanent Salary : Grade J.
Scale 40 - £49,764 to Scale 43 - £52,805 with a professional bar at SCP 41 £50,788** Hours Per Week: 36 hours Base Location: Tame Street Depot, Tame Street, Stalybridge, Tameside, SK15 1ST Assessment Date : To be arranged The Role An exciting opportunity exists within Tameside Council's Engineering Service's Traffic team.
The successful candidate, for the post of Traffic Services Manager, will be experienced and enthusiastic about improving the performance, reliability and safety of the boroughs highway network.
Your primary role will involve the management of the council's Traffic team that deliver the council's statutory duties with regard to the Traffic Management Act.
This includes coordinating all on-street activity via the statutory role of Traffic Manager.
You will have responsibility for development and delivery of a range of traffic related projects including the council's highway safety programme, Vision Zero and moving traffic contravention projects.
You will work closely with other stakeholders across the council, elected members and external partners to support the council's wider ambitions and delivery of a transport system that operates safely, sustainably and efficiently.
About You As a member of Engineering Services management team, you will have excellent management and project management skills combined with strong communication and financial management experience.
About Us At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives.
We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset.
Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do.
We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage.
Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do.
How we do things are just as important as what we do.
Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
** This post is classified as being in a professional job category.
As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria: 1.
Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above AND a management qualification, AND 2.
Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND 3.
Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND 4.
Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English.
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential.
We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer.
Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager on 0161 342 2696 or ****** .
Reference Number : DPT559