Principal Highways Improvement Engineer - Bristol, United Kingdom - National Highways

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Your new role

National Highways have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Highways Improvement Engineer to join our Highways Improvements Team hear in the Southwest region of England. The successful candidate will work in a multi-disciplinary role where they will lead on improvement schemes and initiatives that will directly affect those who use and live alongside the Strategic Road Network (SRN). This varied role is a prime opportunity to either continue you your development or use that wealth of experience you have built up whilst knowing your positively affecting people's lives.

You will work on projects that address identified problem areas on the road network including, Safety, Congestion, Severance and even freight facilities. You will need to be technically strong and be able to adapt to the changes in Need and dynamic Operational environment. Using a combination of internal and external resources you will design, support and develop feasibility schemes with engineering proposals demonstrating which are best value for money.

This role shall provide an excellent opportunity to apply your expert civil engineering knowledge, skills and significant experience to your specific discipline in highway infrastructure engineering. You will also be working with a team of expert Asset engineers managing Renewals programmes so you will also need to adapt or combined your proposals with other works that are being carried out on the SRN.

At National Highways you will have the opportunity to make a real difference for the customers that use and live alongside England's biggest road networks. This role will be based on either our Bristol or Exeter office however as a flexible working organisation we also work from home or other locations subject to the needs of the business. There will be a requirement to travel between our offices and those of our stakeholders and partners in the region.

You will be required to drive as part of your role and you will need to have a full clean driving license to be considered for this position and during employment. The role may be required to work unsociable hours.

What you'll be leading on

• Identification and development of schemes to address Safety, Congestion, Community Severance and facilities issues such freight transport facilities.
• Developing a 5 year and beyond prioritised programme for identified schemes.
• Supporting internal teams technically including responses to public queries, third party applications and planning applications.
• Delegation of tasks to team members
• Development of task briefs and works orders, utilising the framework consultants and contractors to support the delivery of schemes.
• Support engineers, Project Managers, Service Delivery Managers and Route Managers to ensure appropriate schemes are being brought forward and reflect asset needs, priorities and strategies. Working collaboratively with other asset teams to cluster schemes together to provide efficiencies.
• Attending and leading external meetings with the public, councils and other key stakeholders to deliver and support the delivery of schemes in an efficient manor whether they are internal or external schemes.

To be successful

• Chartered or Incorporated Engineer and/or with extensive experience, or equivalent. Hold a degree in relevant discipline, HND, or HNC with relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
• Expert knowledge in the application of Highways/Civil design standards ideally the majority of that experience will be in the use of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) standards and their application on the highways network and CDM 2015
• Proven experience in highways/road infrastructure design, construction, and delivery methods. Working knowledge of highways design software e.g. AutoCAD, Civils 3D, Micro Drainage etc and understanding of transport models and their requirements.
• Proven experience in working within budgets including the creation or agreement of a budget for scheme development. Understanding of the Value Management process and/or cost benefit analysis of schemes, for example understanding the benefits of a congestion or safety scheme.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and work collaboratively with specialist teams across organisational boundaries.

A bit about us

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.

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 do better 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

If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:

• 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)

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