Lighting Engineer

National Highways; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways seeks a Lighting Engineer to join the South East region, developing feasibility studies and preliminary designs for street lighting renewals, including feeder pillars, lighting columns, illuminated signs, bollards, and associated networks. You will be required to drive as part of the role, holding a full driving licence with no more than 3 points.

The successful candidate will help deliver safe, efficient lighting improvements across the network, aligning with safety and value

Qualifications

• Degree or HND, HNC in relevant discipline or equivalent.
• Experience in highway construction and delivery methods.
• Experience of management, inspection and design of electrical renewal schemes.
• Proficient with AutoCAD and cable calculation software.

Responsibilities

• Identify and evaluate asset data to develop early solutions for highway lighting renewals.
• Prepare briefs to support survey works for improvements or renewals.
• Design highway renewals and maintenance schemes.
• Ensure health and safety considerations for customers and employees.

Skills

Highway construction knowledge

Electrical renewal schemes

Management/inspection/design

CDM 2015 knowledge

Education

Degree or HND in relevant discipline

Tools

AutoCAD

Cable calculation software

Job description

About the job.

National Highways have an exciting opportunity for a Lighting Engineer to join our team in the South East region. The team is responsible for the asset management of the street lighting within the region. This includes everything including feeder pillars with the incoming public electricity supply, lighting columns and lanterns, illuminated signs and bollards and subways via a private cable network. Within this role, you will be developing feasibility studies and preliminary designs for improvements and/or renewals, including the compiling and checking of relevant documents, evidence and options for value management, taking into account new techniques, materials, buildability, and costs.

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

• Activities and resources involved in the identification and evaluation of asset data and needs in order to develop early solutions, in line with agreed methodologies and prioritisation criteria.
• Identify and prepare briefs to support delivery of survey works that support the improvement and/or renewal of assets.
• Develop technical briefs provided to external design services contractor for improvement and renewals work.
• Design of highway renewals and maintenance schemes.
• Ensure 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.

About you.

• Degree or HND, HNC in relevant discipline and or appropriate experience, or equivalent
• Experience in highway construction and delivery methods
• Experience of management, inspection and design of electrical renewal schemes
• Demonstrable experience in AutoCAD and Cable calculation software
• Good knowledge of CDM 2015

About the 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.