Highway Infrastructure & Network Manager

The Service & Team

The Environment & Connectivity service sits within the Sustainable Growth & Place directorate and is responsible for managing and maintaining Cornwall’s vital infrastructure networks.

The Highways Infrastructure & Network Manager leads a key function within this service, bringing together highways asset management, network management, estate roads and development adoption, streetlighting, drainage and streetworks. The team works closely with internal services, delivery partners (including CORMAC), utilities, developers and national bodies to ensure Cornwall’s network is safe, resilient and supports sustainable growth.

The Role

As Highways Infrastructure & Network Manager, you will lead the strategic asset management of Cornwall’s £8bn highway network, ensuring long-term value, resilience and performance.

You will oversee the commissioning and delivery of highways maintenance and capital programmes, manage key contracts including the Highways Term Service Contract and streetlighting, and act as Traffic Manager responsible for network access and the streetworks permitting regime.

The role also includes leadership of estate roads and development adoption processes, ensuring new infrastructure is delivered to adoptable standards and supports planned growth.

Through data-led decision making and lifecycle planning, you will optimise investment and drive continuous improvement across the service.

Working closely with Members, senior leaders and partners, you will provide expert advice, secure external funding and represent Cornwall regionally and nationally to influence infrastructure policy and investment.

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to a standard criminal record disclosure check.

Working Pattern

This is a full-time role (37 hours per week), Monday to Friday.

Cornwall Council supports flexible working and offers a range of options including hybrid working, compressed hours and flexible start/finish times, subject to service needs. The role will require a balance of office, site and home working, along with occasional attendance at meetings across Cornwall and beyond.

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• Extensive experience in highways asset management, lifecycle planning and infrastructure engineering
• Strong knowledge of network management, streetworks and network access requirements
• Proven experience managing large, complex budgets and delivering capital and revenue programmes
• Experience of contract management and commissioning (e.g. NEC or similar)
• Understanding of estate roads, S38/S278 processes and development-related highways functions
• Knowledge of streetlighting and infrastructure asset systems
• Strong leadership skills, with experience managing multidisciplinary teams and partners
• Excellent stakeholder management and the ability to provide clear, strategic advice to senior decision-makers
• A relevant professional qualification (e.g. CEng/IEng) or equivalent experience

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What You’ll Get In Return

We offer a supportive and forward-thinking environment where you can shape the future of Cornwall’s infrastructure. You’ll have opportunities for professional development, access to training, and the chance to work on high-profile programmes that make a real difference to communities.

Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance, whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our Core Employee Rewards And Benefits Include

• a competitive salary
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings (including options for additional contributions)
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the option to purchase more
• a national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• access to a wide range of employee discounts for local and national goods and services

Additional Information

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Matthew Philips at ***email_hidden***

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options .

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.