Scheme Co-ordinator

National Highways; West of England; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways in the South West region is seeking a Scheme Coordinator to support the delivery of highway schemes from Bristol or Exeter. You will help ensure governance, quality assurance, health and safety, and adherence to standards to achieve agreed project outcomes.

The role involves data collation, preparing completion documentation, supporting scheduling and meetings, and ensuring safety for customers and staff throughout planning and delivery.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of construction and highway activities.
• use of project management principles.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and in a team.

Responsibilities

• Develop H&S files for schemes with timely data collation.
• Prepare scheme completion documentation and circulate to stakeholders.
• Support construction scheme documentation and data storage in databases.
• Assist with scheme scheduling and related meetings.
• Ensure health and safety considerations throughout planning and delivery.

Skills

Construction awareness

Project management

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Independent working

Team collaboration

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.