Location
Guildford, Surrey / Basingstoke, Hampshire / Maidstone, Kent (South East offices) - Hybrid working available

Hours
Full Time - Flexible hours with hybrid working up to 60% remote

Salary
£54,180 per annum

About the Role
Are you passionate about protecting and enhancing the environment to make a real impact on our roads? National Highways is seeking an Environment Team Manager to join the South East team. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the environmental future of the Strategic Road Network, ensuring projects and maintenance activities are sustainable, compliant, and forward-thinking. You will manage and develop a team of environmental specialists, supporting their growth and performance. Acting as the regional focal point for environmental requirements, impacts, and needs, you will embed environmental considerations into forward programmes and maintenance plans. You will set direction for inspections and maintenance regimes to ensure compliance with standards, maintain accurate environmental asset data and systems, and drive the development and implementation of best practice processes. The role requires driving as part of the duties, so a full driving licence with no more than 3 points is essential.

About Us
National Highways manages and improves England’s motorways and major A roads, helping customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers, and delivery, underpinned by our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork, and ownership. Operations are central to keeping the strategic road network moving, addressing over 39,000 customer enquiries monthly, delivering maintenance activities, driving efficiencies, and responding to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads. We are committed to diversity and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Why You Should Join Us
At National Highways, we believe in a connected country and strive to create a culture where colleagues feel connected, included, and supported in their wellbeing and career development. We offer flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, part-time, job shares, and flexible start and finish times. Our values of safety, ownership, passion, teamwork, and integrity guide everything we do.

Our Benefits Package
- Competitive basic salary plus potential performance-related bonus
- Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution up to 10%
- Annual leave starting at 26 days plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 31 days
- Flexible working and hybrid working options
- Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
- Comprehensive health and wellbeing support including Employee Assistance Programme, mental health first aiders, wellbeing app, occupational health service, and flu vaccines
- Cycle to work scheme
- Significant investment in career development through learning, coaching, mentoring, and on-the-job experience
- Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, shared parental leave, adoption leave, and financial support for holiday play schemes
- Access to a discounts platform with over 3000 offers
- Paid leave to volunteer (3 days basic per year)

Pre-Employment Checks
All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks including right to work, employment history references, DBS criminal record check, social media and adverse journalism check, driving licence check, fit to work questionnaire and medical check if applicable, and qualifications/professional membership verification.

Experience
- Proven track record of developing environmental asset management plans and asset management decision making
- Experience leading teams in a complex service delivery environment
- Strong understanding of environmental standards, policies, and CDM 2015 regulations

About You
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical information to diverse audiences
- Passionate about environmental protection and sustainability
- Motivated to support and develop a team of environmental specialists
- Able to drive as part of the role with a full driving licence and no more than 3 points

Qualifications
- Degree in an environmental discipline or equivalent substantial relevant experience
- Full membership of a recognized environmental professional institute (e.g., CIEEM)