Job Introduction: We’re looking for an experienced Street Lighting Manager to play a critical role in leading and developing our street lighting services across London. This is a key leadership position within the business, responsible for ensuring safe, high-quality delivery while maintaining essential industry accreditations and meeting client expectations.
Operating across major London Borough contracts including Harrow, Bromley, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest, this role will be central to protecting current revenue streams, unlocking future opportunities, and strengthening our self‑delivery capability.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead and manage street lighting operations across multiple contracts and locations.
- Provide technical support to clients, contract leads, and internal teams.
- Ensure all KPIs are achieved and maintained within required performance targets.
- Maintain critical industry accreditation (including HEA) to enable continued service delivery.
- Drive high standards of health & safety and quality across all site activities.
- Support supervisors and operational teams with leadership, guidance and development.
- Review and optimise programmes of work to ensure efficient use of resources, equipment and commercial performance.
- Support estimating activities to grow private works and build a strong pipeline of future opportunities.
- Assist with applications for payment and provide support to commercial teams including QS functions.
- Reduce reliance on freelance resource and supply chain by developing in‑house delivery capability.
- Play a key part in ensuring client satisfaction and protecting contract extensions and long‑term partnerships across London Borough clients.
What We Are Looking For
- Proven experience managing street lighting or similar infrastructure services.
- Strong leadership capability, with experience supporting and developing supervisors and operational teams.
- In‑depth understanding of health & safety and quality standards within a live operational environment.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams across different contracts and locations.
- Commercial awareness, including experience supporting estimating, programme delivery and financial performance.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to provide technical guidance to clients and internal teams.
- A proactive approach to improving operational efficiency and reducing reliance on external resource.
- Commitment to maintaining accreditations and ensuring compliance with industry standards.
- Balance operational delivery with strategic thinking, ensuring both immediate performance targets and long‑term business growth are achieved.
Why us
- Bonus scheme
- Enhanced holiday entitlement
- Contributory pension scheme
- Access to the Tarmac Reward website with discounts on retailers, holidays, etc.
- Access to our Employee Assistance helpline for free and confidential advice
- Access to join our Employee Communities (employee networks) we currently have nine communities inc. (REACH) Religious, Ethnic, Cultural Heritage, LGBTQ+, Parents & carers, Ability, Wellbeing, Female voice and menopause
- Training and development opportunities
Tarmac, a CRH company, is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
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