Engineer - Improvements

About the job.

National Highways have a great opportunity for an Improvements Engineer based within the Midlands, either at our Birmingham or Nottingham offices.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Engineer to join our Improvements Team within the Operations Directorate in the Midlands region, based at either our Birmingham or Nottingham offices.

The role will be involved with the development of projects for the National Highways Designated Funds, and other highway improvements workstreams within Operations. Working alongside other project managers and professional engineers, you will lead in the development and delivery of a wide range of network improvement schemes, to ensure that the strategic road network (SRN) safely meets the requirements of our customers now and into the future.

Throughout the planning and development stage of a project, you will support the management of activities and resources involved in the identification and development of early solutions to address improvement needs, across safety, congestion, sustainable travel & environmental topics. Working with key stakeholders including project teams and third parties you will help co-ordinate works across the region, providing technical support and ensuring adherence to our defined asset class strategies, policies and standards. You will take projects to formal reviews at stage gates to confirm progress with key work items, and liaise with other internal teams within Operations Midlands, to discuss and agree key delivery & programming details.

This role shall provide an excellent opportunity to apply and develop your engineering & project management knowledge, skills and experience within a progressive organisation investing billions across the strategic road network.

You will be required to drive as part of your role and you will need to have a full driving licence, with no more than 3 points, to be considered for this position.

• Ensure the health and safety needs and wellbeing of customers and employees are fully considered and accounted for throughout the planning and delivery of each service activity
• Provide support in the identification and management of asset studies and survey works, including prioritisation of needs to drive improvement in safety, congestion and active travel across our estate
• Support the project management of highway improvement schemes from initial options stage though to the end of technical design
• Monitor the delivery of agreed early solutions and plans, liaising with the relevant teams to identify and/or rectify issues.
• Support the development of NEC contract task briefs to enable procurement of external design resources and survey works
• Supporting technical reviews and approvals for preliminary and detailed design solutions.

About you.

• Degree or HND in relevant discipline and appropriate experience, or equivalent
• Knowledge of asset condition assessment and degradation modelling
• Experience in working within budgets including the creation of a budget for scheme development
• Membership of professional Body (desirable) or working towards Membership (essential)
• Knowledge of asset condition assessment and degradation modelling
• Understanding of the Value Management process or cost benefit analysis of schemes

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.

We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.