Job Description

Senior Works Coordinator

Contract: Cheshire East Highways

Location: Crewe

Contract Type: Permanent

Lead the Delivery of High-Impact Highway Projects

We are seeking a skilled and experienced professional to lead our Construction Support Team, managing the full lifecycle of the highways capital programme. This includes overseeing all works within the Construction remit.


In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for planning, programming, and coordinating construction activities, as well as managing additional workstreams assigned to the team. Your focus will be on ensuring that deliverables are consistently achieved - or exceeded - to support the successful delivery of key infrastructure projects.

The Role

Lead and coordinate weekly and monthly meetings with all stakeholders, ensuring forward programmes are maintained and updated. Assist with budget forecasting and monitoring. Provide line management to the Business Support Team. Collaborate with managers, supervisors, and other teams to develop, update, and maintain forward programmes and resource profiles. Directly line-manage Technicians and Business Support staff, delegating tasks and ensuring delivery within agreed timescales. Liaise with managers, supervisors, and partners to ensure sufficient resources are available to meet deadlines. Work closely with the Permit Application Team to ensure permits are raised, amended, and closed in line with requirements.

About You

Proficient in IT systems, including MS Office, MS Project, Confirm (or similar). Extensive experience in highway maintenance and/or asset management systems (training will be provided if required). Strong knowledge of health and safety legislation and codes of practice. Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and at all levels. Proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships with internal teams, external partners, and clients.

Benefits

At Ringway Jacobs we recognise that our people make the difference, and in order to do what we do well, particular care is taken in nurturing and investing in our people. That's why you will always be given the opportunity to utilise your expertise and develop your career.


Ringway Jacobs recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles. We therefore welcome applications from people looking for an alternative working pattern e.g. part-time hours, job share etc. Please let us know on your CV or cover letter if this is what you are looking for.


In return for your hard work you will receive:


Sick Pay Competitive salary Opportunity to purchase up to 5 days extra leave A variety of discounts through our "RJ Rewards" app, including restaurants, holidays, days out etc Life Assurance Employee Assistance Programme Pension scheme

The Company

We are Ringway Jacobs, a leading highways service provider working with local authorities across the UK. Formed in 2005, specifically to provide road network management solutions to local government, our unique blend of engineering capability, innovation and customer care make us the best in class. We support over 10,000 miles of highways, 10,000 miles of footway, almost 7,800 miles of public rights of way and 242,000 street lights. We excel in delivering safe, sustainable service excellence, through our passion, integrity and collaborative culture.


Ringway Jacobs is an equal opportunities employer. We wish to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all our employees.


If you require further details, please contact our Recruitment Team on 0330 311 2502 or e-mail them on careers@ringwayjacobs.com. This will take you to a login page, where you will need to create an account to continue your application. Once you have created an account you will be able to see where your application is up to and apply for other opportunities within Ringway Jacobs.


Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.


We have a dedicated recruitment team and politely request that agencies refrain from contacting anyone across our businesses with regards to speculative CV's or offering to assist with our vacancies, thank you.


Work Location: In person