Technology Engineer at Highways

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

30 Aug, 26

Salary

44970.0

Posted On

01 Jun, 26

Experience

2 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

ITS (Intelligence Technology Systems), AutoCAD, DMRB Standards, CDM 2015, Stakeholder Management, Asset Management, Technical Support, Project Coordination, Survey Management, Health And Safety Compliance

Industry

Civil Engineering

Description

About the job. National Highways has an exciting opportunity within the Midlands region for a Technology Engineer, working with specialists and helping to improve the National Highway infrastructure and drive customer safety. As an Engineer you will be responsible for delivering schemes, using your technical and stakeholder skills to help shape and coordinate the identification of asset needs and development of roadside technology schemes to defined asset policies and standards. This position will be based in Birmingham or Nottingham with a balance of remote and office-based work. Please note that 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. * The development of technology improvement schemes and/or renewals, including the compiling of relevant documents, evidence and options for value management, taking into account new techniques, materials, buildability and costs. * Assisting with the collation, identification and evaluation of asset data to develop early solutions, to agreed methodologies and prioritisation criteria. * Identifying, preparing briefs and managing delivery of survey works that support the improvement and/or renewal of assets. * Contributing to the regions asset led forward programme and initial scheme development. * Providing technical support to Project Managers by assisting with materials approvals, vetting of contractors’ compliance, inspection support on site, and reviewing health and safety files. About you. * Degree or HND in relevant discipline and appropriate experience * Knowledge of ITS (Intelligence Technology Systems) * Demonstrate an understanding of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges standards and their application on the highways network. * Experience in AutoCAD * Experience in relevant construction and delivery methods and 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 esuring 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. 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 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 an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working * 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 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) * Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable) And finally We reserve the right to close before the advertisement expires.

Responsibilities

Responsible for delivering roadside technology schemes and coordinating the identification of asset needs according to defined policies. Provides technical support to Project Managers, including materials approvals and contractor compliance vetting.