National Highways
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About the job. National Highways have an exciting opportunity for an Engineer to join our Active Travel Team in the Midlands. The team is responsible for identifying and developing improvements across the region that support safer and more accessible journeys for pedestrians, cyclists, and equestrians. This also includes identifying opportunities to support modal shift, such as improvements to bus stops and signage for park and ride sites.
Within this role, you will:
- Identify and develop active travel improvements across the Midlands, supporting safer and more accessible journeys for pedestrians, cyclists, and equestrians, as well as opportunities for modal shift.
- Develop early engineering solutions for improvements to the strategic road network, including bus stops, park and ride signage, and other active travel infrastructure.
- Assess asset data, technical information, and Personal Injury Collision data to identify needs, develop options, and support evidence-based recommendations.
- Provide technical input into planning consultations, helping to ensure active travel requirements are appropriately considered within developments on or near the network.
- Produce technical reports, drawings, briefs, and specifications, working with internal teams, contractors, and stakeholders to ensure solutions meet relevant standards, safety requirements, and provide value for money.
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About you.
- Degree or HND in a relevant engineering discipline with appropriate experience, or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience of developing or delivering active travel, highways, or transport infrastructure improvements.
- Knowledge of DMRB standards and an understanding of value management or cost-benefit analysis within the development of engineering solutions.
- Strong technical and analytical skills, including experience of technical report writing, interpreting data, and using Excel.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills and the ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.
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.
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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.
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