Senior Engineer

Your new role

Are you an experienced Engineer looking for the next step within your career?

Wanting a role where you can use your asset management skills alongside your knowledge of technical standards?

Then National Highways has the role for you

We’re looking for two Senior Engineers to join our teams based in either Birmingham, Telford or Nottingham to lead and coordinate the activities and resources involved in the identification of asset needs and development of early solutions. These roles willfocus on needs relating to traffic congestion, delays and network capacity and will include development of options and analysis using traffic models.

The Senior Engineers will work closely with supply chain and respond to customer enquiries as well as working on specifying surveys and scheme appraisals.

These roles will have a hybrid working approach, where typically you’ll spend 2 days per week in the office and 3 days working from home.

What you’ll be leading on
- 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.
- Lead the development of early solutions for improvements, including the compiling and checking of relevant documents, evidence and options for value management, taking into account new techniques, materials, buildability and costs.
- Support the analysis and review of network operational data and prioritisation of congestion needs.
- Identify, prepare briefs and support delivery of survey works that support the development of improvement schemes.
- Providing technical support to other parts of the business relating to congestion management and traffic modelling.
- Support the development of technical briefs provided to the design and construction contractors for improvement and renewals work.

To be successful
- Degree or HND in relevant discipline and appropriate experience, or equivalent
- Member of a relevant professional body
- Experience of traffic and transport modelling
- Experience in highway infrastructure design
- Experience of working with traffic modelling software tools including Linsig, ARCADY and PICADY
- Knowledge or experience of microsimulation or strategic modelling tools such as VISSIM, Paramics and SATURN (desirable)
- Experience in AutoCAD (desirable)
- Experience in highway construction and delivery methods (desirable)
- Good knowledge of CDM 2015

About Us

Why you should join us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to dobetter and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.

Our benefits package
- Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
- Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
- Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
- Flexible hours and blended working between base location/home
- Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
- Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
- A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
- Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are
- Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
- Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
- Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort
- Right to work check
- 3 year employment history references
- DBS criminal record check
- Social media and adverse journalism check
- Driving licence check (if applicable)
- Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)

And finally

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