Job Details:

Salary range: £71,763 - £95,742 per annum
Work location: 145 King Street, Hammersmith, London W6 9XY
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 30 June 2026
Contact details for Informal discussion: Mark Raisbeck, Director of Public Realm via email on MARK.RAISBECK@LBHF.GOV.UK

About the role

Hammersmith & Fulham is looking for an outstanding senior leader to join our Place department as Assistant Director – Highways. This is a pivotal leadership role with responsibility for shaping and delivering highways strategy, asset management, street works, and network management across the borough.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead a high-impact service at a time of significant opportunity and challenge. You will oversee a broad portfolio including highways asset management, works coordination, lane rental, contract management, and major infrastructure matters including Hammersmith Bridge.

You will also play a leading role in ensuring the council’s highways services are modern, innovative, financially robust and aligned with our wider ambitions for climate resilience, place-making and excellent public services.

As Assistant Director, you will provide strategic leadership across Highways and act as a principal adviser on highways and street works matters to senior officers and elected members. You will lead policy development, service transformation and operational delivery, ensuring the council is well-positioned to respond to local, regional and national transport and infrastructure priorities.

We are seeking a credible and forward-thinking leader with significant experience in highways infrastructure. You will bring strong strategic capability together with the ability to lead high-performing teams, manage complexity and deliver results in a visible and demanding environment.

Please see the Role Profile for more information

Our People Values:

We are caring
We care about our borough and doing things well. We focus on standards and continuous improvement; learning from our mistakes and celebrating success.

We are collaborators
We work together for a better society. We work with our residents, businesses, schools, third sector and others for better outcomes for everyone.

We are driven
We will only settle for the very best. We seek to continually improve and put our residents, customers and businesses at the heart of everything we do.

Our commitment to you:

At H&F you will have access to a comprehensive total reward package as well as joining a flexible working employer and as such all staff can request flexible working Click HERE to find out more.

We believe an inclusive workplace is about the visibility and representation of our local diverse community - it is about open and transparent decision making co-produced with staff and residents.

It is about respect for diversity and a shared identity that seeks to encourage fair and transparent recruitment, retention, and career progression. We take a proactive approach to equity, diversity, and inclusion so that it is part of the fabric of the Council with a shared understanding of the role all colleagues play in realising the inclusivity of the workplace. At H&F, our workplace ensures that everybody has equitable access to opportunities.

In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equitable access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Qualification (GOQ) applies.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

To explore more about the work we do towards being an inclusive employer and our commitments to achieve this please click HERE.

Asking for Adjustments

We are committed to removing barriers in the workplace and this includes adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

If you would like to discuss any adjustments or request the application form in a different format, please contact us at resourcing-peopleandtalent@lbhf.gov.uk or by post to The Town Hall, King Street, Hammersmith W6 9JU

Hammersmith & Fulham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

Corporate Equalities Employment Policy: In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Qualification (GOQ) applies.

We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.