About us

Salford has changed and is continuing to change: at the heart of our approach are ambitious plans to transform Salford into a modern global city where we can all make a real difference to the lives of Salford people. As a people centred and values based organisation Salford really is a great place to work. With a positive permission culture and can do approach, we embrace innovation and encourage performance.

We currently have an exciting vacancy within our team to enable us to continue to build on our success and also bring new experience, knowledge and ideas into the team.

About you

Your style and approach will reflect our values: you will be passionate about what you do always striving to improve things; valuing and respecting others’ contribution, you will work together to deliver a better service; you will take pride in always getting things right first time and learn from when things do go wrong; you will enjoy taking personal responsibility to resolve issues and change what you do and how you do it to make a difference.

Your natural leadership style will align with our #LeadingSalford leadership behaviour framework. In return, our development programme will help develop your skills, knowledge, and confidence as a leader to meet the expectations that we have of our Salford leaders.

About the role

You will be responsible for leading the Infrastructure division within the Place Directorate, with direct management of the Infrastructure Team. The postholder will be expected to provide clear direction and strong leadership skills in order to assist the technical teams, along with a resilient, entrepreneurial spirit to deliver the City Mayor’s priorities for our City. The role involves working to both maintain and grow a robust pipeline of infrastructure projects across Salford, whilst co-ordinating the development of bids for grant funding. In addition, cross partnership working with officers from neighbouring GM authorities and Transport for Greater Manchester will be expected as part of the role in order to co-ordinate infrastructure work across boundaries. The role encompasses both client functions and programme management for grant funded, major infrastructure projects, ranging in value up to £100m+ each.

About the benefits

You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged. You will have the opportunity to work and grow in a people-centred and values based organisation that promotes a positive permission culture. Your opinions matter so you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things through our Salford 100 employee group and our employee led redesign approach. Your work-life balance and wellbeing are important to us so you will have access to a range of benefits including flexible working, green travel scheme, pension scheme, salary sacrifice schemes, a range of health and wellbeing options to suit your needs.