Team Leader Development Management Site Inspections

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Jenny Buckley

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Team Leader Development Management Site Inspections

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Are you ready to lead a team that ensures quality and safety in highway development projects? You'll be based in Brixworth Northamptonshire.  As Team Leader for Development Management Site Inspections, you'll play a crucial role in monitoring the construction phase of highways that are built as part of new developments in both West Northamptonshire and North Northamptonshire

 

Location: Brixworth, Northamptonshire - travel to the office and developer sites required with some remote working available.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

Salary: £58,000 - £62,000 per year + £5.9k annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role

 

What will you be responsible for?
As a Team Leader, you'll be leading the development management site inspection team, ensuring compliance with specifications, and fostering collaborative relationships with developers and contractors on new streets and works within the existing highway to facilitate development.

Your day to day will include:

  • Leading and mentoring a team of site inspectors, developing their skills and ensuring high performance
  • Monitoring developer works for compliance with approved documentation and specifications
  • Monitor works within the highway to ensure operational and public safety, including traffic management compliance
  • Liaising with developers, designers, contractors, and the local highway authority's development management and technical audit teams to identify and agree any design changes required to deliver compliant, high‑quality schemes
  • Ensuring health and safety compliance on all projects

What are we looking for?
This role of Team Leader is great if you:

  • Have an HNC/HND or equivalent qualification in civil engineering or relevant experience
  • Bring significant experience supervising highway works on site, including knowledge of Section 38 and 278 processes
  • Understand Safety at Street Works and Road Works code of practice
  • In depth knowledge and understanding of CDM
  • Ability to follow technical, legal and administrative procedures accurately and consistently

 

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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  • Location:  Northampton
  • Vacancy ID:  9978
  • Background check:   None
  •  Closing Date: 4 Mar 2026
  • Flexible Working:  Yes
    Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.


 

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