Street Lighting Manager

Job Introduction

We’re looking for an experienced Street Lighting Manager to play a critical role in leading and developing our street lighting services across London. This is a key leadership position within the business, responsible for ensuring safe, high-quality delivery while maintaining essential industry accreditations and meeting client expectations.

Operating across major London Borough contracts including Harrow, Bromley, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest, this role will be central to protecting current revenue streams, unlocking future opportunities, and strengthening our self-delivery capability.

What You’ll Be Doing

As Street Lighting Manager, you will take ownership of the operational and technical delivery of street lighting services across the business. Your key responsibilities will include:

Leading and managing street lighting operations across multiple contracts and locations
Providing technical support to clients, contract leads, and internal teams
Ensuring all KPIs are achieved and maintained within required performance targets
Maintaining critical industry accreditation (including HEA) to enable continued service delivery
Driving high standards of health & safety and quality across all site activities
Supporting supervisors and operational teams with leadership, guidance and development
Reviewing and optimising programmes of work to ensure efficient use of resources, equipment and commercial performance
Supporting estimating activities to grow private works and build a strong pipeline of future opportunities
Assisting with applications for payment and providing support to commercial teams including QS functions
Reducing reliance on freelance resource and supply chain by developing in-house delivery capabilityThis role will also play a key part in ensuring client satisfaction and protecting contract extensions and long-term partnerships across London Borough clients.

What We Are Looking For

We’re looking for a driven and experienced leader with strong technical and operational expertise in street lighting services. The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

Proven experience managing street lighting or similar infrastructure services
Strong leadership capability, with experience supporting and developing supervisors and operational teams
In-depth understanding of health & safety and quality standards within a live operational environment
Ability to manage multiple workstreams across different contracts and locations
Commercial awareness, including experience supporting estimating, programme delivery and financial performance
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to provide technical guidance to clients and internal teams
A proactive approach to improving operational efficiency and reducing reliance on external resource
Commitment to maintaining accreditations and ensuring compliance with industry standardsYou’ll be someone who can balance operational delivery with strategic thinking—ensuring both immediate performance targets and long-term business growth are achieved.

Why us

In addition to this role we also offer an extensive range of career development opportunities and industry-leading rewards, incentives and benefits including:

Bonus scheme
Enhanced holiday entitlement
Contributory pension scheme
Access to the Tarmac Reward website with discounts on retailers, holidays, etc.
Access to our Employee Assistance helpline for free and confidential advice
Access to join our Employee Communities (employee networks) we currently have nine communities inc. (REACH) Religious, Ethnic, Cultural Heritage, LGBTQ+, Parents & carers, Ability, Wellbeing, Female voice and menopause
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Tarmac, a CRH company, is an equal opportunity employer. We are committedto creating an inclusivework environment for all employees and activelyencourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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