Engineer - Highway Maintenance

North East Lincolnshire Council; Greater Lincolnshire; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

North East Lincolnshire Council in Lincolnshire is seeking an experienced Highway Maintenance Engineer to join the Highway Asset Management, Maintenance and Structures Team. You will plan and deliver highway maintenance schemes on the local network, coordinating resources and liaising with partners.

The role combines office work and site inspections, requires strong technical knowledge, and the ability to manage priorities to meet time, cost and quality targets.

Qualifications

• Experience in highways sector.
• Organised and accurate with ability to manage competing priorities.
• Office-based work and site inspections, outdoors in varying weather.

Responsibilities

• Plan, design, coordinate and deliver highway maintenance schemes and programmes.
• Prepare technical reports contributing to programmed maintenance and network improvements.
• Identify and develop maintenance schemes and respond to public and stakeholder queries.
• Act as a consultee on new highway layouts and design in planning.
• Coordinate service delivery with other council services to minimise disruption.

Skills

Highways maintenance

Inspections

Surveys

Customer service

Planning

Job description

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Basis Full time

Job profile for Engineer - Highway Maintenance

Engineer - Highway Maintenance

North East Lincolnshire Council 11/10/2026 Engineer - Highway Maintenance

Job details

Salary NJC31 - £43,149 Contractual hours 37 Basis Full time Hours Fulltime & Permanent Job category/type Highways Date posted 17/09/2026 Job reference NELC400000798 Attachments Highway Inspection and Maintenance Team Brief.docx 4. Engineer Role Profile (1).docx NELC Benefits (2) (1) (1) (1).pdf Role Brief - Highway Maintence Engineer.docx

Job description

Help Build What’s Next

Shaping places. Leading change. Keeping NEL Moving.

Highways and Transport is back at North East Lincolnshire Council, creating a rare opportunity to be part of something from the beginning.

As we establish and grow the highways service, we’re bringing together talented people who want to do more than simply deliver services. We’re looking for people who want to influence how they are designed, developed and improved for the future.

From maintaining and improving our highways network, to shaping how people travel across North East Lincolnshire, the work we do touches the lives of residents, businesses and visitors every day. Now is an exciting time to join us as we invest in our people, strengthen our expertise and create a service fit for the future.

Whether you’re starting your career as a technician, developing your professional expertise as an engineer, or stepping into a senior leadership role, you’ll have the opportunity to make your mark, grow your career and help shape the future of Highways and Transport in North East Lincolnshire.

What will your day look like?

As a Highway maintenance engineer within the Highway Asset Management, Maintenance and Structures Team, you will join a team that is responsible for the management of the local highway network.

The team delivers a wide range of activities, including cyclical inspections, annual condition surveys, reactive maintenance and identification and delivery of an annual programme of planned highway maintenance across the borough.

As a Highway Maintenance Engineer working in this team, you’ll take a leading role in planning, designing, coordinating and delivering highway maintenance schemes and programmes.

Your day may involve preparation of technical reports which will contribute to proposals for programmed maintenance and network improvements, identifying and developing maintenance schemes, investigating and respond to public and stakeholder queries.

You will act as a key consultee on the design of new highway layouts and associated engineering improvements submitted through the planning process, advising on their suitability for highway adoption.

You will also work closely with other Council services to coordinate service delivery requirements during planned works, supporting coordinated delivery and helping to minimise disruption across the highway network.

You’ll also be a key point of contact for routine technical queries, helping colleagues, Members, partners and stakeholders understand information clearly and confidently.

This is a hands-on technical role where your attention to detail, experience and ability to work with others will make a real difference.

Who are we looking for?

We are seeking an experienced, innovative and forward-thinking engineer with strong technical knowledge, practical skills, and proven experience within the highways sector.

You’ll need to be organised, accurate and able to manage competing priorities to deliver programmes to time, cost and quality. As the role involves a mix of office-based work and site inspections, you’ll also need to be comfortable working outdoors in different weather conditions.

Experience of highway maintenance would be helpful, along with experience of inspections, surveys and customer service.

You need to be dependable, approachable and confident enough to share your technical knowledge in a way that helps others.

Why join us?

This is a role where you can build on your technical experience and become a really important part of a growing service.

You’ll be joining Highways and Transport at a time when we’re shaping new ways of working, improving how we use data and building a stronger in-house service for the future.

If you care about quality, enjoy solving practical problems and want your work to support better outcomes for our local places and the people of North East Lincolnshire, we’d love to hear from you.

Key Dates Interview date: W/C 19th October

We want you to have the best interview experience with us, so will provide candidates selected for interview their questions 24 hours in advance of meeting us.

Check out our NELC Benefits brochure attached for more information on the brilliant benefits available working at North East Lincolnshire Council!

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