Technology Engineer - Birmingham

About the job.

National Highways has an exciting opportunity within the Midlands region for a Technology Engineer, working with specialists and helping to improve the National Highway infrastructure and drive customer safety.

As an Engineer you will be responsible for delivering schemes, using your technical and stakeholder skills to help shape and coordinate the identification of asset needs and development of roadside technology schemes to defined asset policies and standards.

This position will be based in Birmingham or Nottingham with a balance of remote and office-based work.

Please note that you will be required to drive as part of your role, and you will need to have no more than 3 points to be considered for this position and during employment.

• The development of technology improvement schemes and/or renewals, including the compiling of relevant documents, evidence and options for value management, taking into account new techniques, materials, buildability and costs.
• Assisting with the collation, identification and evaluation of asset data to develop early solutions, to agreed methodologies and prioritisation criteria.
• Identifying, preparing briefs and managing delivery of survey works that support the improvement and/or renewal of assets.
• Contributing to the regions asset led forward programme and initial scheme development.
• Providing technical support to Project Managers by assisting with materials approvals, vetting of contractors' compliance, inspection support on site, and reviewing health and safety files.

About you.

• Degree or HND in relevant discipline and appropriate experience
• Knowledge of ITS (Intelligence Technology Systems)
• Demonstrate an understanding of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges standards and their application on the highways network.
• Experience in AutoCAD
• Experience in relevant construction and delivery methods and knowledge of CDM 2015

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 esuring 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.