Drainage Engineer

National Highways; Manchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Drainage Engineer, where you will develop solutions for drainage improvements, manage asset data, and design highway maintenance schemes. This full-time role requires a degree in Civil Engineering and relevant experience in drainage or highways.

Qualifications

• Vocational experience in a drainage or highways setting.
• Ability to work within budgets.

Responsibilities

• Develop early solutions for drainage improvements.
• Ensure asset data is captured and maintained.
• Design highway renewals and maintenance schemes.

Skills

Knowledge of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges

Knowledge of highway drainage maintenance techniques

Education

Degree / HNC / HND in Civil Engineering

Job description

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Location: Vacancies across the East, Midlands, North West, South West and South East

About the job

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Drainage Engineer to join our Drainage team in the East, Midlands, South West and South East regions.

Within this role, you will be undertaking the identification and evaluation of asset data and needs to develop early solutions, in line with agreed methodologies and prioritisation criteria and the designing of highway renewals and maintenance schemes.

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.

• Develop early solutions for drainage improvements and/or renewals, including the compiling of relevant documents, evidence adoptions for value management, considering new techniques, materials, buildability, and costs.
• Ensure that asset data and condition information is captured and maintained in the relevant database(s), in line with agreed standards and timescales.
• Identify, prepare briefs and support delivery of survey works that support the improvement and/or renewal of drainage assets.
• Develop technical briefs provided to external design services contractor for improvement and renewals work.
• Design of highway renewals and maintenance schemes for drainage schemes.

About you

• Degree / HNC / HND in Civil Engineering (or similar) with vocational experience in a drainage or highways setting.
• Knowledge and experience of promoting drainage renewals (or similar) schemes / projects with the ability to work within budgets.
• Knowledge of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) standards and their application on the highway network with good knowledge of CDM 2015 regulations.
• Knowledge of highway drainage maintenance techniques and methods of mitigation.

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Civil Engineering and Government Administration

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