National Highways
Construction & Maintenance Decarbonisation Lead
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About the Job
National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Construction and Maintenance Decarbonisation Lead to join our Environmental Sustainability Division within Safety, Engineering and Standards (SES). As the Team Lead, you will work across the company, developing and implementing decarbonisation standards and best practices.
You will provide specialist decarbonisation technical advice and guidance, acting as the focal point to ensure alignment between development, renewal and maintenance of National Highways assets, ensuring planning for long term improvements and alignment with Environmental and Sustainability Strategies.
Please note this role can be based from any of our UK offices; however, travel to regional offices to attend team meetings may be required.
- Be the subject matter expertise on carbon, including PAS2080, decarbonisation pathways (materials, plant, construction practices) and innovation.
- Develop technical solutions working with specialists across the company and supply chain to ensure sustainable, low carbon asset standards, specifications, processes and implementation.
- Lead technical assurance of carbon submissions and data, ensuring National Highways are establishing, implementing and delivering actions to achieve the construction and maintenance of the RIS3 performance metric.
- Lead the business cases for RIS4, developing the strategic direction for decarbonisation, ensuring a robust, fully funded Construction and Maintenance KPI for RIS4.
- Represent National Highways on net zero related technical and standards committees, steering groups, conferences, seminars and workshops. Contribute to the development of external standards, to ensure that National Highways views are appropriately represented.
- Lead on internal and external stakeholders' engagement to understand business needs, promoting and gaining commitment to Net Zero objectives, identifying key areas for improvement and sharing best practices. Key areas of engagement comprise of; low carbon materials, asset resilience, carbon data and assurance.
- Manage and motivate a small team, ensuring they are engaged with the team activities and wider business purpose. Management of technical consultancy, ensuring best value and alignment to corporate goals.
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About You
- A Chartered Engineer and/or Environmental Specialist with a relevant professional institution (e.g., ICE, IEMA) or hold equivalent recognition of your technical suitability for the role.
- Demonstrable experience of leading and developing small teams to deliver required objectives.
- Strong collaborator with the ability to gain the involvement and engagement of a wide range of stakeholders.
- Experience and application of expertise in the following areas:
- The principles of decarbonisation and its inclusion within policy procedures and standards.
- A broad appreciation of the whole life cycle of carbon and sustainable highway assets; the materials, products, and technologies used.
- Carbon Management in Infrastructure (PAS2080), Carbon Accounting (ISO14064, PAS2060, BS EN15804) and emerging low carbon innovations.
- Knowledge of Highway design standards and specifications (DMRB/MCHW) (desirable).
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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.
Safety, Engineering and Standards (SES) focuses on supporting outstanding operational delivery and providing expert technical advice for our road network. We also deliver essential services that lead, enable, and drive innovation in the development of the Strategic Road Network, while offering expert guidance on health and safety matters.
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.
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