(DtP) Structures Engineer

National Highways; Almondsbury; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways is seeking a Structures Engineer to help manage our structures asset and support risk management and project delivery under DMRB standards. The role involves survey planning, budget oversight, and coordinating with technical partners to deliver improvements.

The position is based in either Bristol or Exeter on a hybrid basis, with responsibility for developing schemes and ensuring customer-centric design and robust technical specifications.

Qualifications

• Degree or HND in relevant discipline and working towards a professional membership.
• Experience in structures studies, renewals design, or structural assessment.
• Experience managing budgets for scheme development.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify, prepare survey briefs, and support delivery of structures survey works.
• Monitor delivery of agreed assessment work with technical partners and delivery teams.
• Develop early solutions for improvements, including option reports and cost considerations.
• Undertake structural reviews per CS 451 and assessment per DMRB standards.
• Assist with regional asset-led forward programmes and technical specifications.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Customer focus

Education

Degree or HND in relevant discipline

Job description

About The Job

National Highways has an excellent opportunity for a Structures Engineer to join our Asset Management division within Operations. As a Structures Engineer, you will predominantly assist with the management of our structures by identifying asset needs and producing/reviewing risk management plans. The role will also entail elements of project management, like managing budgets and to an extent the supply chain to achieve our goals of maintaining our assets in line with our DMRB standards.

This role can be based from either our Bristol or Exeter offices on a hybrid basis.

You will be required to drive as part of your role and you will need to have a full driving licence, with no more than 3 points, to be considered for this position.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify, prepare survey briefs, and support delivery of structures survey works that support the improvement, assessments and/or renewal of structures assets.


• Monitor the delivery of agreed assessment work liaising with technical partners; or the delivery of treatment options, liaising with the relevant delivery teams to aid successful delivery of schemes.


• Develop early solutions for improvements and/or renewals, including compiling relevant documents, evidence, and option reports for value management, considering new techniques, materials, buildability, and costs.


• Undertake structural reviews in accordance with CS 451 and structural assessment in accordance with DMRB standards.


• Assist with developing the regions asset led forward programme and initial scheme development, customer centric designs and technical specifications.

About You

• Degree or HND in relevant discipline and appropriate experience, or equivalent and working towards a professional membership or professional body.


• Experience in structures studies, renewals work design, or structural assessment / Experience working within allocated budgets including the creation of a budget for scheme development (desirable)


• Good stakeholder management and communication skills with strong customer focus


• Knowledge of National Highways standards (DMRB, MCHW and Eurocodes) and their application on the highways network


• Knowledge of CDM 2015