Highways Senior Supervisor - Operations

Salary: From £49,238 per year + additional hours + on-call allowance
Grade: 9
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 40 per week
Location: Skipton, North Yorkshire

And Selby, North Yorkshire

Lead operational delivery for one of York and North Yorkshire’s Top 100 Businesses

Are you an experienced operational highways leader looking for a role where you can make a visible impact on communities every day?

At NY Highways, we're looking for a Senior Supervisor to lead the delivery of highways maintenance and operational services from our Selby and Skipton depots. This is a key leadership position responsible for overseeing multiple teams, managing complex operational programmes, and ensuring safe, efficient, high-quality service delivery across a large geographical area.

This opportunity is particularly suited to candidates already operating at a senior supervisory, operations management or works management level within highways, civil engineering, utilities, construction, highways maintenance or other comparable infrastructure environments.

The role

Reporting into the Area Manager, you will provide leadership to supervisors and operational teams across multiple work locations, ensuring that planned and reactive works are delivered safely, efficiently and to agreed performance standards.

You will be responsible for:

• Leading and developing operational supervisors and frontline teams across the area
• Managing multiple work programmes, priorities and resources simultaneously
• Delivering contractual performance, operational targets and customer outcomes
• Making sound operational decisions in a fast-moving, highly visible public-facing environment
• Driving a strong health, safety and wellbeing culture across all activities
• Managing budgets, plant, materials and workforce resources effectively
• Working closely with North Yorkshire Council, internal stakeholders and members of the public
• Contributing to service improvement, operational planning and business performance

Why NY Highways?

Recognised as one of the York & North Yorkshire Top 100 Businesses 2026, NY Highways delivers a broad range of services on behalf of North Yorkshire Council, including highways maintenance, fleet and property services, winter operations, EV charging infrastructure and emergency response support. We also deliver major transport and regeneration projects across the county.

Find out more about our recent work: https://nyhighways.co.uk/case-studies/

We are pleased to offer:

• Competitive salary with annual pay progression
• Training and development, including specialist plant, safety and highways certifications
• Generous annual leave entitlement of 24 – 29 days plus bank holidays
• Job stability through our partnership with North Yorkshire Council
• Supportive working environment with strong safety and wellbeing culture
• Royal London pension scheme with employer contributions up to 6%
• Access to staff benefits including Vivup, Cycle to Work and Employee Assistance

About you

We are seeking an experienced operational leader who can demonstrate success managing large-scale frontline operations in a highways, infrastructure, construction, utilities or similar environment.

To be successful, you will have:

• Significant experience managing supervisors, team leaders or multiple operational teams and leading operational teams in a highways, civil engineering, utilities, construction or infrastructure setting
• A proven track record of delivering operational performance, productivity and service improvements
• Experience managing resources, operational programmes and budgets
• Strong knowledge of health and safety legislation and safe systems of work
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to build credibility at all levels
• Strong leadership skills with a focus on accountability, coaching and performance management

Read the full job description and person specification here

Please note: This role is unlikely to be suitable for candidates whose experience is limited to first-line supervision or who have not previously managed complex operational teams within infrastructure, engineering, construction, utilities or comparable service delivery environments.

If you are already operating at a senior supervisory, operations management or works management level and are looking for an opportunity to make a real impact, we'd like to hear from you.

Join NY Highways and play a leading role in delivering essential highways services in North Yorkshire. Apply today!

Key dates

• Closing date: Sunday 29^th November 2026
• Interviews are planned to take place on w/c 7^th December

For a confidential chat, please contact our Resourcing Partner Ashley Benford. Ashley.benford@northyorks.gov.uk or 07814932389.

We reserve the right to remove this vacancy in the event of the position being filled before the proposed deadline.  NY Highways is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff. We welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, or belief.  We will not accept applications from agencies and can only consider applications from individuals with right to work within the UK. 

At NY Highways, safety is a core principle.  We are dedicated to the health and safety of our employees and the public. To maintain a safe work environment, we enforce a strict substance misuse policy. Employees must report to work fit for duty and free from drugs or alcohol. New employees will undergo mandatory drug and alcohol testing, with random tests conducted throughout employment. Adherence to this policy is essential for upholding our safety standards and ensuring the integrity of our operations.