Transport Resilience Manager

Job Description

• Job Family: Operational Design and Support
• Locations: Glasgow, United Kingdom; South Queensferry, United Kingdom (Hybrid)
• Working Pattern: Full Time
• Requisition process: Standard
• Number of Openings: 1
• Apply Before: 03/15/2026, 11:59 PM

Are you looking for a high profile and dynamic role, which will bring you in contact with a wide range of stakeholders? To help us deliver our responsibilities, we are seeking an experienced individual to fill the Transport Resilience Manager role within the Operations Team in the Roads Delivery and Operations Directorate.

Operations are engaged in delivering and developing a number of outward facing services within Transport Scotland’s Roads Delivery and Operations Directorate. The team’s objectives are directly linked to the service that customers experience as they use the trunk road network. The resilience functionality is provided by a Contracts Team and an Events Team, and they report to the National Operations Manager – Resilience.

Responsibilities

• Provide secretariat function for both the Transport Scotland Resilience Board (TSRB) and Transport Scotland Resilience Operational Group (TSROG). This will involve taking ownership of certain actions resulting from both forums, with the aim of improving preparedness for identified key civil contingencies risks such as Pandemic, National Power Outage and Cyber risks.
• Development of our transport resilience arrangements based on Preparing Scotland’s Integrated Emergency Management (IEM) principles: Assessment, Prevention, Preparation, Response and Recovery. This will include supporting the design and delivery of resilience training, exercising and structured debriefing processes to capture and implement lessons learned.
• Contribute to the development of transport resilience civil contingency work programmes using robust project management principles.
• Support with the impact assessment of transport related risks contained within the UK National Risk Assessment (NRA) and Scottish Risk Assessment (SRA). This will require engagement across key resilience partners, including government bodies.
• Internal and external stakeholder engagement with resilience partners at a local, regional, and national level. This will include attending the counter terrorism strategy (CONTEST) prepare and protect meetings.
• Ensure Ministers are provided with appropriate advice on both planned and unplanned resilience events which may impact the trunk road network. This includes managing and coordinating the out of hours on-call provision.
• Support the preparation, activation and operation of the Multi-Agency Response Team (MART) and Transport Scotland Resilience Room (TSRR) for major planned events and unplanned incidents and be a member of the response team during activations as well as supporting with the out of hours on-call function.

Success profile

Success profiles are specific to each job and they include the mix of skills, experience and behaviours candidates will be assessed on.

Experience

Demonstrable experience of successfully delivering a range of priorities in a complex and challenging environment with a flexible approach to team working.

Demonstrable experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders, developing, and maintaining credible relationships and experience in providing advice and support to senior management and Ministers.

Apply online, providing a CV and Supporting Statement (of no more than 1500 words) which provides evidence of how you meet the skills, experience and behaviours listed in the Success Profile above.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can be used to support your application, but all statements and examples provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, and presented as your own) applications will be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI in recruitment.

If invited for further assessment, this will consist of an interview and presentation.

Assessments are scheduled for w/c 23 March 2026 however this may be subject to change.

About Us

Transport Scotland is the national transport agency, seeking to deliver a safe, efficient, cost-effective and sustainable transport system for the benefit of the people of Scotland. Transport Scotland is accountable to Parliament and the public through Scottish Ministers, with a budget of around £4 billion per year. Transport is a vital feature of the Scottish Government’s focus on increasing sustainable economic growth, and transport investments and policies have major impacts on the economy, people, and the environment.

The Scottish Government is the devolved government for Scotland. We have responsibility for a wide range of key policy areas including: education, health, the economy, justice, housing and transport. We offer rewarding careers and employ people across Scotland in a wide range of professions and roles.

Our staff are part of the UK Civil Service, working for Ministers and senior stakeholders to deliver vital public services which improve the lives of the people of Scotland.

We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment along with a wide range of employee benefits. Find out more about what we offer.

Our standard hours are 35 hours per week. We offer a range of flexible and hybrid working options depending on the needs of the role. If you have specific questions about the role you are applying for, please contact us.

This post is based in Glasgow with hybrid working in line with current Transport Scotland policies. You will be expected to be office based a minimum of twice per week, pro rata.

Security checks

Successful candidates must complete the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), before they can be appointed. BPSS is comprised of four main pre-employment checks – Identity, Right to work, Employment History and a Criminal Record check (unspent convictions).

Equality Statement

We are committed to equality and inclusion and we aim to recruit a diverse workforce that reflects the population of our nation.

Find out more about our commitment to diversity and how we offer and support recruitment adjustments for anyone who needs them.

Further information

For further information on this vacancy please contact Martin Thomson by email at .

Find out more about our organisation, what we offer staff members and how to apply on our Careers Website.

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Apply Before

Apply Before: 15th March 2026 (23:59) – This role is open to internal candidates and Common Citizenship organisations only.