Director, Highway Operations

Job summary

The Director of Highway Operations provides strategic leadership for maintenance, safety, incident response, and tolling operations across the highway network. They are responsible for ensuring operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and effective contractor management while maintaining a visible field presence.

Job details

The Director of Highway Operations provides strategic leadership for maintenance, safety, incident response, and tolling operations across the highway network. They are responsible for ensuring operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and effective contractor management while maintaining a visible field presence. Candidates must possess a university degree in Civil or Transportation Engineering and at least 15 years of progressive experience in highway operations or infrastructure maintenance. Strong leadership, financial acumen, and extensive knowledge of freeway operations and safety regulations are essential.

What you’ll do

The Director of Highway Operations provides strategic leadership for maintenance, safety, incident response, and tolling operations across the highway network. They are responsible for ensuring operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and effective contractor management while maintaining a visible field presence.

Requirements

Candidates must possess a university degree in Civil or Transportation Engineering and at least 15 years of progressive experience in highway operations or infrastructure maintenance. Strong leadership, financial acumen, and extensive knowledge of freeway operations and safety regulations are essential.

Listed skills

• Problem solving · Preferred
• Budgeting · Preferred
• Regulatory Compliance · Preferred
• Team Leadership · Preferred
• Project management · Preferred
• Stakeholder Management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Strategic leadership
• Highway operations
• Infrastructure maintenance
• Contract management
• Safety management
• Budgeting
• Incident response
• Winter operations
• Tolling operations
• Regulatory compliance
• Stakeholder management
• Project management
• Fleet management
• Financial acumen
• Problem-solving
• Team leadership

Job areas

• Management & Leadership
• Transportation
• Engineering
• Construction
• Security & Safety

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