Group Manager (Structures)(Readvertisement) - GLA15118

Job Description

An opportunity has arisen within Neighbourhoods, Regeneration and Sustainability for a Group Manager to lead our Structures team.

We’re looking for a bold, driven and strategic thinking structures manager who’s excited by challenge, motivated by impact, and ready to shape the future of our infrastructure. This is your chance to lead a high-profile portfolio of bridges, retaining walls, culverts, and complex structures that thousands of people rely on every day.

Your portfolio will include the operation, maintenance, design and management of over 400 structures throughout the city including listed structures such as the Albert Bridge (built 1871), modern iconic structures such as the Clyde Arc (built 2006) and key infrastructure like the Clyde Tunnel and Tidal Weir.

If you’re interested in working within a service that touches on all aspects within the city, please read on.

Position Details

Reporting to the Head of Service for Infrastructure Asset Management you will lead a team responsible for the design, management, maintenance and operation of the city’s road related structure. You will provide support and expert advice to other services in support of the council’s wider strategic aims and be a key link between internal and external stakeholders.

Applicants must have good collaboration skills to develop and maintain effective partnership working and should be skilled in improving performance and achieving excellence. You should have experience of delivering a range of engineering projects in constrained urban environments and be skilled in improving performance and achieving excellence.

Applicants should have a degree, or equivalent, in Civil Engineering and a full, current driving licence.

Please note that Chartered Engineer status is essential to ensure the safety and reliability of existing structural assets essential to the city’s transport network and to develop new infrastructure.

Further details regarding what this role entails are noted within the Role Profile for the post, whilst the Person Specification document confirms the key competencies you are required to demonstrate in your application.

Please note this is a re advertisement and previous applicants should not re-apply.

Contract Details

Weekly Hours: 35 hours per week

Work Pattern: Monday – Friday, hybrid work pattern.

Annual Salary: £69,283.18 - £80,327.20 on an incremental scale

Benefits of working with us

Glasgow City Council employees have access to a wide-ranging and generous benefits package. If you’re successful in your job application, you’ll have access to these benefits which include:

• 182 hours paid annual leave, rising to 203 hours after 5 years’ service (pro rata to shift pattern and start point in year)
• 5 hours paid public holidays each year (pro rata to shift pattern and start point in year)
• Local government pension scheme
• Life and Personal Accident Insurance
• Occupational Sickness Pay
• Staff Benefit Scheme
• Glasgow Credit Union

For guidance on completing your application, and to view other benefits on offer for employees of Glasgow City Council, please visit the following link: .

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Further Information

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