Engineering Technician, Civil Engineering

Overview

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Technician to join our structures team in the East region. As a Technician within Operations, you will be supporting in the development of schemes for our Capital Works Programme consisting of road safety, improvement, and asset renewal schemes throughout the region. You will be required to drive as part of your role and need a full driving license to be considered for this position.

This role may also require you to work unsociable hours.

• Provide support in the identification and management of asset studies and survey works.
• Input into the development of early solutions for improvements and/or renewals, including the compiling of relevant documents, evidence and options in line with agreed methodologies and prioritisation criteria.
• Support the development of technical briefs provided to the design and construction contractor for improvement and renewals work.
• Support the capture and maintenance of structures asset data and condition information in the relevant database.

• Higher national diploma/certificate or other relevant qualification with relevant experience, or working towards
• Knowledge of Design Manual for Road & Bridges (DMRB) standards and their application on the highways network
• Experience in highway construction and delivery methods
• Experience in Auto CAD/ArcGIS (desirable)
• Experience working with databases

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

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.