Senior Engineer - Warrington - ref. g94944115
About the job.
National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Senior Engineer to join our team within Northwest Operations. The Senior Engineer will lead and coordinate the activities and resources involved in the investigation of traffic collisions, analysis of congestion problems, identification of active travel needs and the design of engineering improvements to the network, while ensuring adherence to defined policies and standards; the role may be required to work unsociable hours.
You will be required to drive as part of your role and you will need to have a full driving license with no more than 3 points to be considered for this position and during employment.
Please note that this is a hybrid position and can be based from any of our offices within the North West to include Warrington, Penrith or Preston.- Lead and coordinate the activities and resources involved in the investigation of road traffic collisions and the development of mitigating measures.
- Lead on the analysis of traffic congestion problems and development of engineering solutions.
- Undertaking Road Safety Audits on highway improvement schemes.
- Developing the technical briefs provided to design contractors for improvement works.
- Reviewing third-party improvement schemes for safety, capacity and compliance to standards.
- Degree qualified in Civil Engineering, or qualification in a similar discipline.
- Membership of a professional body (desirable) or working towards membership.
- Experience of traffic collision investigation and safety engineering.
- Experience of computer aided design and/or traffic modelling software.
- Proven ability to produce technical reports including desk studies, interpretative reports and specifications, with a working knowledge of design standards (DMRB, CDM).
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.