Principal Structures Engineer

Medirest Signature; Preston; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways offers an exciting opportunity for a Principal Structures Engineer to manage infrastructure assets. The successful candidate will leverage their engineering knowledge, develop asset management strategies, and ensure best practices in asset condition assessment for safer roads across England. This role calls for a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer with substantial experience in highways infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in engineering.
• Expert in asset condition assessment.
• Understanding of asset decision making.

Responsibilities

• Develop asset specific management plans.
• Identify and commission survey works.
• Monitor and analyze asset data.

Skills

Asset condition assessment

Degradation modelling

Highway infrastructure design

Asset management plans

Technical standards knowledge

Education

Chartered or Incorporated Engineer

Job description

About the job.

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Principal Structures Engineer to join our Asset Management division within Operations. As a Principal Structures Engineer, you will provide technical expertise in managing National Highways infrastructure and provide specialist knowledge to Engineers involved in the identification and evaluation of asset specific needs and early solutions.

This role can be based from our Manchester, Warrington, Preston and Penrith offices.

Please note 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.

• Develop asset specific management plans and ensure asset management decisions adhere to policies, provide value for money, and maximise contribution to the delivery of business objectives.
• Identify and commission survey works to support the improvement and/or renewal of assets; to check and approve technical briefs, reports, specifications, drawings and supporting information.
• Provide specialist technical expertise and assurance in the development of early solutions for asset renewals and improvement schemes through the value management process and evaluation of options studies.
• Continuously monitor and analyse asset data, to champion asset data quality, integrity and adherence to data standards and guidelines.
• Develop and recommend best practice methods for the identification and evaluation of asset condition and future needs to support the ongoing development of asset maintenance strategies.

About you.

• A Chartered or Incorporated Engineer with extensive experience.
• Expert knowledge of asset condition assessment and degradation modelling.
• Understanding of value management processes, asset decision making and development asset management plans.
• Experience in highways infrastructure design, highway construction and delivery methods.
• Knowledge of relevant technical standards, asset policies and strategies.

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.