Job Description
Job Details
Grade: 8A
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Hourly Rate: £19.54 - £21.20
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Salary: £35,672.14 - £38,701.64 per annum
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Contract Duration: Permanent
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Hours: 35
Role Purpose
To assist in the management and delivery of a range of frontline services for roads operations and SBc contracts, delivering cyclic, reactive, and planned engineering and construction works for the Council as well as winter maintenance services.
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To manage the day-to-day operations within the Tweeddale and Eildon West areas with responsibility for both Eshiels and Galashiels Roads depots and the councils aggregates recycling centre. To plan, programme and oversee delivery of a wide range of frontline road services, ensuring works are carried out in accordance with agreed specifications and in line with available budgets.
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Assist in the management of services ensuring high quality, customer-focused, value for money, creative, innovative, fit for purpose solutions, responsive to complex and changing demands. Manage and maintain effective processes involving health & safety, ensuring wellbeing for employees and anyone else affected by work activities, through the implementation and compliance with policies, procedures and legislation.
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Ensure that all the work and outputs of the operations Teams comply with and promote equal opportunities and diversity.
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Operationally manage and implement the diverse nature of road maintenance activities to comply with the statutory requirements e.g. New Roads and Street Works Act, Chapter 8 (temporary traffic management), Code of Practice for Highway Maintenance, specification of Highway works and the Roads Scotland Act 1984.
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Ensure that the Roads Operations are set up to deal with the winter service and any other emergencies, including the receipt of weather forecasts and planning of appropriate action 7 days per week for the whole winter when scheduled.
Essential
Educated to HNC/HND or SVQ 4 level in a relevant discipline or evidence of comparable experience and training.
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Site Manager / supervisor Safety Training Scheme Certificate, e.g. Managing Safely Training (CITB) Experience as a line manager in a relevant service.
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Considerable experience and knowledge of Health and Safety requirements in a relevant environment. Substantial experience of Operational Management in either road maintenance or general construction activities. Experience in the delivery Winter Maintenance services.
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A current driving licence and use of a vehicle is an essential requirement of this post. * If you have a disability which precludes you from holding a drivers licence, Scottish Borders Council will take into account its responsibility to make reasonable adjustments to allow for your disability. Should it be possible to make such an adjustment in order that you can undertake the travel responsibilities of the post, this will be taken into account in consideration for this role.
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Type of drivers licence: Category B1
Informal Enquiries
Informal enquiries may be made to Keith Millar by telephone on 07879890914 or by email at kmillar@scotborders.gov.uk
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Scottish Borders Council is committed to improving the diversity of its workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We welcome applications from all minority groups and individuals who identify with one or more of the protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act 2010. In particular from candidates who assess themselves as having a disability, under the Disability Confident Employer scheme this guarantees an interview to those individuals who meet the essential criteria of the post. All appointments will be made on merit.