ITS Project Manager Highways

The Role

• Play a key role in the management of our transport technology sector in Scotland
• Overseeing our contractors to ensure high performance levels, value for money and delivery of the outcomes we want from our ITS.
• Project manage critical ITS projects to support the oversight and development of the Traffic Scotland System.
• Support decision making and strategy development around system obsolescence / investment, future systems architecture and connected / data services. Support the management / optimisations of traffic signals.

Qualifications

1. Member of a relevant professional industry body.

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience and expertise relating to ITS systems management.
• Demonstrable relevant ITS project management experience in a roads (or transportation) environment.
• Demonstrable experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders, developing, and maintaining credible relationships and experience in providing advice and support to a senior level.
• Demonstrable experience of contract management and successfully delivering a range of priorities in a complex and challenging environment with a flexible approach to team working.

Desirable

• Expert knowledge relating to ITS systems development and application, including that relating to contemporary / emerging technology solutions, systems architecture, hosting and security.
• Experience relating to the management, operation and optimisation of traffic signals.
• Traffic system contract – technical IT services
• Ensuring its secure
• Ensuring software is up to date & working as it should
• Responsible for managing the contract
• Performance, service level agreements, developing the system as agreed
• Client manager role – over seeing how contractors/supply chain are delivering
• Assess future system & improvements/contributions/software solutions
• Bit of contract management/intelligence and planning across system development.

Essential Criteria

• Direct experience within ITS – traffic management systems, technology/software/hardware on how they work.
• Managing types of services/technology.
• Speak the language & understand
• Traffic systems overseeing contractors to make sure signals are working efficiently & preventing delays.
• Direct experience within ITS
• Direct system experience – underlying tech, data, software/hardware
• General PM capability – work with supply chain/stakeholders
• Specific Technology experience
• Bespoke TS system
• Good handle on the way services are moving towards Cloud – contemporary understanding.
• Traffic management systems towards road operations

Qualifications

• Experience is more beneficial
• Ideally – member of association within industry – doesn’t have to be chartered.