Traffic Management Manager

About The Role

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Traffic Manager to join our Highways team to work on the A66 Northern Trans-Pennie Route Upgrade, in Penrith, Cumbria.

Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage, and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live, work and play.

We provide high quality asset strategy, management, and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable, and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

• Plan, manage and coordinate all matters relating to traffic safety and control including procurement and management of road space and traffic management design.
• Ensure sufficient TSCO/TSS are appointed to undertake suitable level of inspection, monitoring of the TTM to confirm the safe system of work meets the design.
• Ensure the Temporary Traffic Regulation Order (TTRO) or Temporary Traffic Regulation Notice (TTRN) are applied for and complied with.
• Ensuring the TTM design and engineering enables a safe system of work for all.
• Ensuring unplanned but foreseeable risks are managed and controlled using above the line controls where possible.
• Regular stakeholder / external contractors clash call.
• Produce and issue schematic layouts and issue 3 week look ahead programme.
• Oversee CCTV Control room for incident management, logs, and incidents outside of the project control.

• Detailed working knowledge of the TSRGD and relevant Traffic Signs Manuals.
• NHSS 12A Traffic Safety Supervisor Qualification.
• NEBOSH Construction Certificate or IOSH Managing Safely or CITB Site Managers Safety Training Scheme as a minimum.
• NHSS 12D M6 or M7 Qualification.
• Institute of Highways Engineers (IHE) Professional Certificate or alternative recognised Temporary Traffic Management Engineering Course at Level 4.
• Institute of Highways Engineers (IHE) Professional Diploma or alternative recognised Temporary Traffic Management Engineering Course at Diploma level at level 5 or above.
• Engineering Technician ‘EngTECH’ or higher registration with the Engineering Council.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.

Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong order book and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, ENEI, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabil

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