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Head of Infrastructure & Resilience

Cornwall Council
£61,167 - £77,451 a year
Truro, England
3 weeks ago

The Service & Team:

The Sustainable Growth and Development Directorate leads Cornwall’s transformation through strategic infrastructure, environmental stewardship, and sustainable development. It supports the Council’s vision for a connected, low-carbon, and resilient Cornwall.

The Environment and Connectivity Service is responsible for delivering critical infrastructure and environmental services, including highways, flood and coastal resilience, and maritime operations. It ensures that Cornwall’s communities are supported by safe, sustainable, and future-ready systems. It ensures that Cornwall’s communities are supported by safe, sustainable, and well-maintained infrastructure.

The Role:

We are looking for a visionary leader to join us as Head of Infrastructure & Resilience. This role will be the Council’s lead officer in ensuring the safety, sustainability, and resilience of Cornwall’s critical infrastructure.

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

What you’ll need to succeed:

As Head of Infrastructure & Resilience, success will require extensive technical knowledge of highways, flood and coastal risk management, and maritime operations, balanced with strategic oversight of large-scale infrastructure programmes. You must be experienced in contract and asset management, with the ability to manage a complex financial portfolio and represent Cornwall in regional and national forums. Strong leadership, a systems-thinking approach, and the ability to drive innovation, workforce development, and inclusive practice are key to delivering resilient, community-focused services.

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What you’ll get in return:

Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

  • a competitive salary.
  • a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
  • a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
  • A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
  • Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information:

Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here .

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact [email protected]

Application Process

Please provide a two page statement demonstrating how you meet the success criteria contained above in the section 'What you'll need to succeed'. In completing your statement please include examples of your own personal experience and contributions and your motivation for applying.

You can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had.

Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact [email protected] if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.

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