Project Chargehand (3 Posts)

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We are looking for Project chargehands to lead teams working on highway maintenance and construction projects, across Derbyshire.

You’ll be on site supervisor for teams and subcontractors, allocating work, selecting the appropriate approach for the conditions, and ensuring specifications, budgetary constraints and quality standards are met.  You’ll be responsible for managing construction sites, and controlling and directing safe site operations, including devising and implementing safe systems of work and undertaking and reviewing risk assessments. The ability to ensure good relationships with, and the safety of, the public, employees, clients and contractors is essential, minimising disruption to travel as much as possible.

You’ll also be part of a mandatory rota to deliver adverse weather and emergency services and winter maintenance (gritting and snow clearing), outside normal working hours, for which you’ll received additional payment.

We’d like to hear from you if you have :

• A full driving licence LGV C, G
• Experience in a supervisory role and the ability to manage, motivate, train and develop a team
• Experience in Highways maintenance and construction services, including winter maintenance and adverse weather activities.
• The full range of construction skills including drainage, road resurfacing, manhole construction, kerbing works, fencing, flag and block laying, structural concreting, and patching
• Knowledge of the current highways and bridgeworks specifications, national contract conditions, and statutory regulations

We offer a friendly and supportive working environment, a variety of Derbyshire based work, regular working hours (typically 0800 until 1600) and additional payments for working out of hours to provide adverse weather and emergency services.  You’ll also benefit from our generous leave scheme, employee wellbeing services, local government pension and the opportunity to develop yourself and your career. 

Provisional Interview Date: Week commencing 15 June 2026

Apply now and take the first step towards a fulfilling career with us! By joining Derbyshire County Council you will have access to a range of amazing rewards and employee benefits, including our generous annual leave scheme, excellent local government pension and fantastic employee discounts. To discover more detail about the rewards and benefits available to you, click here

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Important: Derbyshire County Council holds a sponsorship licence, but this role does not offer visa sponsorship. Please apply only if you already have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship, as applications that do not meet this requirement will be rejected.

We welcome applications from individuals who share our values — being Collaborative, Innovative, Empowered and Accountable. These values describe who we are and what we stand for as a council. They help shape our culture, encourage consistent behaviour and guide how we work together to make a positive difference for both our employees and the residents we serve.