Roads Strategy Manager

Responsibilities

• Develop vehicular-related components of the Expansion Surface Access Strategy for the DCO.
• Support development of highways-related monitoring and mitigation strategies.
• Provide leadership, direction, and constructive challenge to consultants.
• Act as client-side representative engaging with National Highways and local highway authorities.
• Translate DCO and statutory obligations into clear, consistent guidance.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate highways-related risks impacting consent, cost, or schedule.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in roads, highways or transport planning within major infrastructure or DCO / NSIP programmes.
• Experience of working in complex multi-disciplinary environment where collaboration and integration are central to delivery.
• Proven experience managing and assuring transport modelling and assessment work delivered by external consultants.
• Experience engaging with National Highways and/or local highway authorities.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to present technical information clearly to a range of audiences.
• Ideally, you will also have direct experience supporting DCO submission and/or examination.
• Knowledge of highways mitigation design, traffic management and operational access strategies.
• Experience working within multi-disciplinary EIA or consenting programmes.

Hard Skills

• transport planning
• transport modelling
• highways mitigation design
• traffic management
• operational access strategies
• risk management
• DCO submission
• DCO examination
• multi-disciplinary EIA
• consenting programmes

Soft Skills

• leadership
• communication
• analytical skills
• collaboration
• integration
• client engagement
• constructive challenge
• direction
• presentation skills
• problem-solving