Engineer

Consortium of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Voluntary and Community Organisations Limited; Penrith; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A major roads organization is seeking an Engineer to join their Roads Asset Engineering Team. The successful candidate will lead the design and execution of various projects, including Pavement and Traffic Sign renewal, while ensuring health and safety compliance. You will work collaboratively with stakeholders across multiple locations in the North West region, so a full driving license is required. This position will allow you to contribute meaningfully to maintaining and enhancing the strategic road network in England.

Qualifications

• Degree or HND in relevant discipline and appropriate experience required.
• Experience in highway infrastructure design and delivery methods.
• Knowledge of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and execution of renewal projects.
• Coordinate works across the region with stakeholders.
• Ensure health and safety management during project deliveries.

Skills

Health and safety management

Highway infrastructure design

Asset condition assessment

Knowledge of CDM 2015

Education

Degree or HND in relevant discipline

Job description

Role in Roads Asset Engineering Team within Operations Directorate

Collaboration on Pav neste, Vehicle Restraint System, Fencing, Road Marking, and Traffic Sign renewal projects

Support in planning, development, and coordination of projects across North West region

Requirement to travel between Penrith, Preston, Manchester, Warrington offices and project sites

Need for full driving licence with no more than 3 points

Responsibilities include health and safety management, asset studies, technical support tillegg materials approvals

Degree or HND in relevant discipline and experience in highway infrastructure design required

National Highways are looking for a talented Engineer to become a key player in our Roads Asset Engineering Team, part of the Operations Directorate in the North West. In this role, you’ll collaborate with a skilled group of professionals to lead the design and execution of diverse Pavement, Vehicle Restraint System, Fencing, Road Marking and Traffic Sign renewal projects. Your work will directly contribute to maintaining and enhancing the strategic road network (SRN), ensuring it remains safe, efficient, and responsive to the evolving needs of our customers‑today and for years to come.

Throughout the planning and development stage of a project, you will support the activities and resources involved in the identification and development of early solutions for the pavement asset. Working with key stakeholders including project teams and third parties you will help coordinate works across the region, providing technical support and ensuring adherence to our defined asset class strategies, policies and standards. As a flexible working organisation we offer this role from our Penrith, Preston, Manchester and Warrington office. There will be a requirement to travel between our offices, the network and those of our stakeholders and partners. Please note that the role may also require work during unsociable hours.

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 ensure assets remain in serviceable condition and meet the requirements of our standards.
• Conduct and lead the development of early solutions for renewals and/or improvements, including the compiling and checking of relevant documents, evidence and options for value management, considering new techniques, materials, buildability, and costs.
• Develop the technical briefs provided to the design and construction contractor for improvement and renewals workawy.
• To provide technical support to Project Managers Make lace with materials approvals, vetting of contractors' compliance, inspection support on site, and reviewing of Health and Safety Files.

About you.

• Degree or HND in relevant discipline and appropriate experience, or equivalent
• Knowledge of asset condition assessment and degradation modelling
• Good knowledge of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) standards and their application on the highway network.
• Experience in highway infrastructure design, construction and delivery methods.
• Good knowledge of CDM 2015

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.