About the job.
National Highways have an exciting opportunity for an Engineer to join our Road Safety team in the Yorkshire North East region.
The successful candidate will work in a multi-disciplinary role in the Road Safety team which will include developing schemes, identification of safety problems and working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders. You will also take part in/lead road safety audits, post collision investigations and be offered training where required to fulfil your duties.
At National Highways you will have the opportunity to make a real difference for the customers that use and live alongside England’s biggest road networks. You will support the delivery of the Safe Systems approach and work with internal and external stakeholders including Road Safety Partnerships to deliver interventions that will lead directly to a reduction in collisions.
This role will be based from our Wakefield Office.
You will be required to drive as part of your role and you will need to have a full driving license, with no more than 3 points, to be considered for this position.
- Supporting the development of feasibility studies for improvements and/or renewals, including production of relevant documents and drawings, collation of evidence to support option development and appraisal of benefits , while taking into account new techniques, technologies, buildability, and costs. You may work on a multitude of other road safety activities to implement mitigation packages.
- Delivering stage one, two, three and four road safety audits in accordance with GG119. You will be trained up in this area if you’re not currently qualified to audit.
- Post collision investigation reporting – which will include working collaboratively with other Stakeholders to establish the facts of a collision in the early stages of an investigation.
- Supporting and undertaking analysis of collisions to identify patterns and clusters on the road network and to support RAP star rating improvements to the Strategic Road network (SRN)
- Ensuring that health & safety needs and the wellbeing of customers and employees are fully considered and accounted for throughout the planning and delivery of each service activity.
About you.
- Experience in Highways/Road Design and application of standards to develop schemes and interventions. Ideally this will include experience of mitigating collision risk and knowledge of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) standards and their application on the highways network – in particular GG119. Working knowledge of using AutoCAD and associated software packages is also essential.
- A Degree/ HND or HNC in a relevant field such as civil/highways engineering along with relevant experience and membership of a relevant professional body such as ICE/CIHT/IHE, ideally actively working towards registration
- Experience with road safety audits. Ideally you will already meet the GG119 criteria to be an audit team member but this is not essential as training can be provided..
- Experience with identifying and mitigating road safety related concerns. Such as the cause of collisions and developing/delivering a mitigation to reduce the likelihood.
- Must be able to work independently and prioritise work, as well as communicate effectively to ensure customers/stakeholders are aware of and understand those priorities.
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.
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
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