Job reference: 000260
Salary: Competitive
Department: Engineering
Location: Manchester (Piccadilly Gate)
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 37
Job start date: 13/10/2025
Closing date: 18/07/2025

JOB DESCRIPTION

About the job.
National Highways is recruiting an Engineer to join our Highways Technology Engineering Team within our Operations Directorate in the North West region. Within this role, you will be undertaking the identification of asset needs and develop early solutions for the asset class in scope, while assuring adherence to defined asset policies and standards.
This role can be based from any of our offices in the North West, which are in Manchester, Warrington, Preston and Penrith.

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.

• Ensuring 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.
• Undertaking the identification and evaluation of asset data and needs in order to develop early solutions, in line with agreed methodologies and prioritisation criteria for highways technology assets.
• Develop early solutions for improvements and/or renewals, including the compiling of relevant documents, evidence and options for value management, taking into account new techniques, materials, buildability, and costs.
• Monitoring the delivery of agreed early solutions and plans, liaising with the relevant teams to identify and/or rectify issues.
• Developing the technical briefs provided to the design organisation and managing the delivery of survey works for the improvement and renewal of assets.

About you.

• Hold a degree or HND in a relevant discipline and appropriate experience, or equivalent.
• Knowledge of asset condition assessment and degradation modelling
• Understanding of the Value Management process or cost benefit analysis of schemes
• Experience in working within budgets including the creation of a budget for scheme development.
• 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 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.

• Ensuring 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.
• Undertaking the identification and evaluation of asset data and needs in order to develop early solutions, in line with agreed methodologies and prioritisation criteria for highways technology assets.
• Develop early solutions for improvements and/or renewals, including the compiling of relevant documents, evidence and options for value management, taking into account new techniques, materials, buildability, and costs.
• Monitoring the delivery of agreed early solutions and plans, liaising with the relevant teams to identify and/or rectify issues.
• Developing the technical briefs provided to the design organisation and managing the delivery of survey works for the improvement and renewal of assets