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Personal Summary

Martin has over 23 years experience working in highways and

transportation, the last 9 years being within management positions. As

such he has an extensive technical and managerial background in

highway and civil engineering. His ability to combine leadership with

strategic thinking and operational, performance and financial

management ensures project outcomes are met. Martin has excellent

communication skills and builds powerful relationships through

collaborative working to deliver results.

Career History/ Experience

Leicestershire County Council - Highways

Team Manager – Engineering Design - January 2008 - Present

Responsible for a team of 10 and delivery of service objectives through

designing and delivering walking, cycling and bus improvement

schemes, delivering road safety and speed reduction schemes, and

design checks on new development to ensure this is properly integrated

into the transport system. Team also provides project management

support and technical advice across the department. Annual delivery

programmes of circa £2m.

I have also led on the production of the county council’s Network

Management Plan, Transport Planner Training Scheme and an

improvement project across the engineering design group including a

review of the group’s quality management system.

Leicestershire County Council - Transportation

Team Manager – Major Transport Projects - September 2006 - January

2008

Responsible for managing a team of 6 project managing the delivery of

medium and major highway and transport improvement schemes

including: - junction improvements - park and ride - town centre

improvements - environmental improvements. Experience includes: -

major scheme project management - preparation of Department for

Transport (DfT) business cases - conceptual scheme design and

appraisal - public consultations, planning applications and public

inquiries - democratic support for elected members, media and public

relations - Capital programme and developer funded scheme support -

major scheme monitoring.

Key skills AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• General/ Business/ Financial

Management

• Project/ Programme

Management

• Performance Management

• Business Planning

• Transport Policy and Strategy

• Writing Briefs/ Commissioning

Work

• Feasibility Studies

• Business Cases/Securing

External Funding

• Preliminary and Detailed Design

• Customer Focus/ Consultations

• Health and Safety.

CIVIL ENGIINEERING SKILLS

• Commercial Approach –

Leaning Working Practices

• Using Design Guidance

• Providing Technical Approvals

• Working with CDM Regulations

• Taking Off/ Estimating

• Working with Legislation and

Statutory Instruments

• Environmental Assessments

• Quality Management Systems

• Highway Maintenance

• Condition Surveys

• MSProject

• Preparing Planning Applications

• Writing Contracts and Contract

Management

• Site supervision

• Training

• Winter maintenance.

“I believe I have a wealth of

experience and transferable

skills that I can use to manage

teams and individuals to achieve

their goals”.

Nottinghamshire County Council - Transportation

Principle Officer – Project Management and Partnerships - August 2003 -

September 2006

Responsible for project management of medium and major highway

and transportation schemes including: - new road schemes (circa £8M) -

junction improvements - bus priority schemes - park and ride. Prepared

and submitted planning applications, environmental assessments,

compulsory purchase and side road orders; using local planning

documents, PPGs/RPGs, the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges

(DMRB) and statutory instruments. Prepared a Statement of Case for a

public inquiry.

Nottinghamshire County Council - Transportation

Local Transport Plan Programme Manager - May 2001 - August 2003

Responsible for overseeing delivery of the county council’s Capital

programmes, reporting on progress to the departmental management

team.

Nottinghamshire County Council - Transportation

Principle Officer – Network Management - May 1999 – May 2001

Responsible for managing the county council’s TAMP and condition

surveys - writing the Highway Network Management Plan – writing the

Traffic Management Guide – introduction of UKPMS – chairing the traffic

management group. Also an out of hours duty officer.

Warwick District Council Project Engineer - December 1997 – May 1999

Melton Borough Council Assistant Engineer - May 1995 – December 1997

Norfolk County Council Engineering Assistant - October 1993 – May 1995

Suffolk County Council Graduate Engineer - July 1991 – September 1992

Responsible for delivery of highway maintenance and improvement

schemes and programmes. Schemes include: - Pelican and Zebra

crossings - traffic calming - major maintenance – highway drainage -

bypasses – footways and cycling - 20mph zones - temporary traffic

management design - junction improvements - a town centre CCTV.

Training

Please see attached list of certifications and training received.

Interests

I enjoy working with people and helping others to develop. I currently

manage and coach a grass roots football team which I find very

rewarding. I am a qualified FA Level 1 coach and have used my

personal skills to grow and establish a new team that will be joining the

local junior league in the 2015/16 season.

Key skills (cont.) PERSONAL SKILLS

• Creative and innovative

• Flexible/ Positive

• Self-motivated/ desire to be pro-

active

• Honest

• A leader/ able to motivate and

inspire others

• Developing others

• Good judgment

• Excellent communicator

• Problem solver

• Able to work under pressure.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Nottingham Trent University

BA Hons Degree in Civil and

Engineering 2(1) 1993

Post Graduate Training

NVQ Level 3 in Management 2001

PRINCE 2 Practioner 2003

AutoCad City and Guilds 1996

Trinity RC School

Two ‘A’ Levels – Maths and Design

and Technology 1989

Two ‘A/O’ Levels – Maths and

Electronics 1988

St John Houghton RC School

Nine ‘O’ Levels – including Maths

and English 1987

Certifications and Training Courses

Course Title Organising Body Date

CDM2015: The Principal Designer and

Designer – Demonstrating Capability

NEC August

2015

Practical Application of the ECC:

Communications, Early Warnings and

The Programme

NEC July 2015

CDM2015 The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

(RoSPA)

June 2015

NEC3 Contracts Awareness Training NEC June 2015

Management of Health and Safety Leicestershire County Council May 2015

Project v2010 Introduction Pin-Point Training Ltd July 2014

Equality and Human Rights Impact

Awareness Training

Leicestershire County Council June 2014

Environmental Awareness Learning Pool June 2014

Mental Health First Aid Leicestershire County Council March 2014

Local Highways and Climate Change Change Climate UK July 2013

Health and Safety Training Certificate

- Site Safety

Leicestershire County Council May 2013

Leading for High Performance

Programme

Leicestershire County Council 2012

The Construction (Design and

Management) Regulations 2007

Leicestershire County Council November

2011

Attendance Management Training Leicestershire County Council October

2011

Community Engagement Training Leicestershire County Council August

2011

Effective Developmental Coaching Leicestershire County Council February

2011

Procurement Essentials Training Leicestershire County Council January

2011

Managing Wellbeing, Stress and

Pressure

Leicestershire County Council August

2010

Performance Management Through

People

Leicestershire County Council March 2010

Course Title Organising Body Date

Political Skills Leicestershire County Council March 2010

Speed Limits: Strategy - Assessment –

Review

TMS Consultancy November

2009

Transport Modelling for Beginners Aston University September

2009

Transport Planning Professional (TPP)

Mentor Training Workshop

IHT/ TPS June 2009

Traffic Regulation Order Training Leicestershire County Council April 2008

Mentoring Programme Clutterbuck Associates February

2008

Managing Difficult Conversations The Lindsay Judge Connection Ltd 2008

Risk Management Workshop Leicestershire County Council November

2007

Motivational Interviewing Leicestershire County Council November

2007

Diversity and Community Cohesion

Masterclass

Leicestershire County Council October

2007

Press Release Masterclass Leicestershire County Council October

2007

Creativity and Innovation Workshop Leicestershire County Council October

2007

Surviving the New Construction Act

Seminar

Thomas Sands Consulting Ltd August

1998

Diversity for Managers Freeney Williams Ltd