Team Manager – Highways Capital Delivery Project and Programme Management

Team Manager Highways Capital Delivery Project and Programme Management
MB3 (£53,051 - £60,084)
37 Hours, Full Time
Permanent
Hybrid Stopford House, with expectation of minimum of 2 office days per week, attendance required to suit service requirements

Application Deadline: Thursday 26th November 2026
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: Monday 30th November 2026
Interview Date: Thursday 10th and Friday 11th December 2026 (provisional, subject to panel availability)
Interview Type: In person

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Your Role

Help shape Stockport's next chapter, across the whole borough. Our highways are more than routes from A to B: they connect communities to jobs, education and services, support new development and create places where people want to spend time. Join Stockport Council's Capital Delivery service and turn investment into inclusive growth and lasting improvements to everyday life.

Within our Place directorate, you'll help deliver the Council Plan's ambitions through projects that connect people, strengthen neighbourhoods and support a greener borough. Working with council services, communities, developers and regional partners, your reach will extend from district centres and local neighbourhoods to major regeneration, including links with Stockport Mayoral Development Corporation (MDC). From transport improvements and walking and cycling routes to welcoming public spaces, you'll bring together placemaking, and innovative thinking to create better-connected, more resilient places.

You'll lead our Project and Programme Management Team, combining hands-on project delivery with the programme controls that make delivery possible. Across the full project lifecycle, you'll shape resourcing, procurement, budgets, risk and assurance, championing digital solutions and better ways of working to turn complex challenges into lasting improvements.

About You

You'll bring experience of managing highways and transport projects, alongside the ability to lead people, build partnerships and keep delivery moving. Commercially aware and confident managing budgets, procurement and contracts, you'll combine ambition with sound judgement and a clear focus on time, cost and quality.

You'll see the bigger picture: how a transport scheme can connect a new neighbourhood, support local businesses or turn a street into a better place. Working with communities, councillors, colleagues and partners, including TfGM and GMCA, you'll communicate clearly, navigate competing priorities and build confidence in delivery.

Just as importantly, you'll enjoy developing others. You'll support project managers, officers, apprentices and graduates, creating a collaborative team where ideas are welcomed and lessons drive improvement. Whether strengthening governance, improving programme reporting or resolving a delivery challenge, you'll bring curiosity, accountability and a determination to achieve meaningful outcomes for Stockport.

About Us

Stockport is a place to put your ideas into practice. Our Capital Delivery service brings together engineering, design, construction, project management and maintenance to support development and improve places across the borough. Working with partners across Stockport and Greater Manchester, you'll connect technical expertise with shared ambitions for inclusive growth, thriving neighbourhoods and climate action. You'll help shape how we deliver and see the difference on the ground.

We offer a supportive team environment, opportunities to develop your career and the chance to help others grow. Flexible working supports a healthy work-life balance, alongside a competitive salary, access to the Local Government Pension Scheme and a range of employee benefits.

At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We're keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.

We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Matt Jones Head of Capital Delivery on matt.jones@Stockport.gov.uk to arrange an informal discussion about the role

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Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.

Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://www.greater.jobs/our-guaranteed-assessment-scheme

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the 'About You' or 'Supporting Statement' section of your application. Please also email recruitment@stockport.gov.uk.

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