Drainage Engineer

Drainage Engineer

Location:

Preston, Lancashire

Salary: £39,340 - £44,970

About the job.

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Drainage Engineer to join our Drainage team in the North West region. Within this role, you will be undertaking the identification and evaluation of asset data and needs to develop early solutions, in line with agreed methodologies and prioritisation criteria and the designing of highway renewals and maintenance schemes.

You will be required to drive as part of your role and you will need to have no more than 3 points to be considered for this position and during employment.

* Develop early solutions for drainage improvements and/or renewals, including the compiling of relevant documents, evidence adoptions for value management, considering new techniques, materials, buildability, and costs.

* Ensure that asset data and condition information is captured and maintained in the relevant database(s), in line with agreed standards and timescales.

* Identify, prepare briefs and support delivery of survey works that support the improvement and/or renewal of drainage assets.

* Develop technical briefs provided to external design services contractor for improvement and renewals work.

* Design of highway renewals and maintenance schemes for drainage schemes.

About you.

* Degree / HNC / HND in Civil Engineering (or similar) with vocational experience in a drainage or highways setting.

* Knowledge and experience of promoting drainage renewals (or similar) schemes / projects with the ability to work within budgets.

* Knowledge of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) standards and their application on the highway network with good knowledge of CDM 2015 regulations.

* Excellent stakeholder management.

* Knowledge of highway drainage maintenance techniques and methods of mitigation.

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.

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 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.

A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.

We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we’re open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our benefits package

* Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus

* Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of…