Scheme Co-ordinator

National Highways; Exeter; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways in England is seeking a Scheme Coordinator to join our South West team, with offices in Bristol or Exeter. You will support delivery, governance, QA, and safety standards to ensure successful project outcomes.

The role involves developing H&S files, coordinating documentation, and assisting with scheme scheduling and meetings. The ideal candidate will understand project management, have strong attention to detail, and excellent communication skills, able to work independently

Qualifications

• Experience or appreciation of construction and highway activities.
• Understanding of project management principles.
• Driven with excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Develop Health & Safety files for schemes with timely data collection.
• Prepare scheme completion documentation and circulate to stakeholders.
• Support collection and storage of construction scheme documentation in relevant systems.
• Support scheme scheduling and related delivery activities and meetings.
• Ensure health, safety and wellbeing considerations are integrated throughout planning and delivery.

Skills

Construction and highway activities

Project management principles

Attention to detail

Communication and interpersonal skills

Independent yet collaborative

Job description

About the job.

Here at National Highways, we currently have an exciting opportunity for a Scheme Coordinator to join our team in the South West. Within this role, you will be working to support the delivery of projects, evaluate and complete various documentation for delivery and ensuring adherence to effective governance, quality assurance, health and safety, technical and specialist standards, to ensure successful delivery of agreed project outcomes.

This role can be based from our Bristol or Exeter office.

• Development of H&S files for schemes through timely and accurate collation of data
• Working to support the preparation of scheme completion documentation and ensure timely circulation to relevant stakeholders
• Support the completion of required construction scheme documentation and data collation and /or storage in relevant database(s) and systems
• Support scheme scheduling and delivery related activities and meetings
• Ensure the health and safety needs and wellbeing of customers and employees are fully considered and accounted for throughout the planning and delivery of activities.

About you.

• An appreciation of construction and highway activities
• An understanding of project management principles
• A driven individual with excellent attention for detail
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to execute tasks independently, yet work collaboratively within a team and respond to management guidance & support

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.