Asset Engineering Manager

Job Introduction

Role Purpose

The Asset Engineering Manager will manage a diverse team to ensure the effective delivery of the council’s Asset Engineering Service. Managing the highway maintenance, street lighting and structures teams, as well as leading on the strategies in these areas. The manager will provide strategic direction, oversee various engineering projects, and ensure high standards of performance and customer service.

Main Responsibilities

• Manage the Asset Engineering Service, providing technical advice and ensuring compliance with statutory, national, and local requirements.
• Develop and implement strategies for highway asset management projects. Including street lighting, structures and highways maintenance teams.
• Represent the Head of Engineering Services in their absence and contribute to the wider service development.
• Oversee the recruitment, management, and development of staff, ensuring effective workforce planning and performance management.
• Manage budgets and resources effectively to deliver service objectives within budget.
• Liaise with members, senior management, external stakeholders, and the public to provide solutions to complex projects.
• Ensure the delivery of projects.

The Ideal Candidate

• Holds an engineering-related degree and a professional qualification in a relevant subject, or is able to demonstrate the equivalent through significant industry experience.
• Demonstrates professional competence and extensive experience in engineering.
• Has a management qualification or equivalent relevant experience.
• Is a member of a professional body such as ICE, CILT, or CIHT.
• Possesses operational management experience in engineering-related services.
• Has led high-profile innovative projects or policy development with significant impact.
• Exhibits high resilience, attention to detail, emotional intelligence, and the ability to remain calm under pressure.
• Understands the importance of diverse talent and promotes a positive perception of the service.
• Is open and transparent in leadership, using feedback to improve and resolve complex issues sensitively. 

About BCP Council

BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.

Our Benefits

We offer an excellent benefits package to colleagues. Find out more on our website

As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We have been in a process of collective bargaining since 2019 and have positively worked forward to reach an agreed position with the unions for the new contractual offer. This has taken longer than we hoped and therefore we are having to consider all alternative avenues available to enable us to remove inequality in the organisation as a result of bringing together 3 councils. 

We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation, and all colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. We want to reassure everyone that whichever route is taken to reach the new terms and conditions, we can honour continuous service and there will not be any job reduction as a result of the implementation of Pay and Reward.  If you have any questions at all about this process, please feel free to raise this with the hiring manager.