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Date Added: Tue 04/03/2025

Senior Engineer

Birmingham, UK
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Company: NATIONAL HIGHWAYS

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: Negotiable

About the job.

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

Then National Highways has the role for you!

We're looking for a Senior Engineer to join our teams based in either Birmingham, Nottingham or Telford but, working directly from our Telford office, to lead and coordinate the activities and resources involved in the facilitation of Technical Surveys.

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.

  • 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.
  • Collaborate with Engineering colleagues, SDF Contractors, TST Contractors, Project Managers, Service Delivery Managers and Route Managers to ensure that the technical surveys programmes supports the regional captial programmes.
  • Review and process survey packages, facilitate the delivery of survey works that support the improvement and/or renewal of assets.
  • Ensure correct cost capture across all contracts, support preparation of survey forecasts, associated risk profile and processing of payment applications.
  • Provide technical support to Project Managers
  • Develop the technical briefs provided to the design and construction contractors for improvement and renewals work.

About you.

  • Degree or HND in relevant discipline and appropriate experience, or equivalent.
  • Knowledge of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges standards and their application on the highways network.
  • Experience of providing commercial administrative support, portfolio/programme setting and financial forecasting.
  • Experience in AutoCAD/ ArcGIS (desirable).
  • 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.

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