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Structures Engineer

National Highways

The Role

Overview

Manage structures assets, conduct assessments, develop risk plans, and support projects.

Key Responsibilities

  • structural review
  • survey briefs
  • assessment monitoring
  • asset programme
  • early solutions
  • value management

Tasks

-Undertake structural reviews in accordance with CS 451 and structural assessment in accordance with DMRB standards. -Identify, prepare survey briefs, and support delivery of structures survey works that support the improvement, assessments and/or renewal of structures assets. -Monitor the delivery of agreed assessment work liaising with technical partners; or the delivery of treatment options, liaising with the relevant delivery teams to aid successful delivery of schemes. -Assist with developing the regions asset led forward programme and initial scheme development, customer centric designs and technical specifications. -Develop early solutions for improvements and/or renewals, including compiling relevant documents, evidence, and option reports for value management, considering new techniques, materials, buildability, and costs.

Requirements

  • degree
  • stakeholder management
  • structural design
  • eurocodes
  • cdm 2015

What You Bring

-Degree or HND in relevant discipline and appropriate experience, or equivalent and working towards a professional membership or professional body. -Good stakeholder management and communication skills with strong customer focus -Experience in structures studies, renewals work design, or structural assessment / Experience working within allocated budgets including the creation of a budget for scheme development (desirable) -Knowledge of National Highways standards (DMRB, MCHW and Eurocodes) and their application on the highways network -Knowledge of CDM 2015

The Company

About National Highways

-Fueled by multi-billion-pound Road Investment Strategies, it delivers major upgrades like the A14 bypass and the smart motorway spine. -It engineers iconic projects—like the 1.8 km Hindhead Tunnel under the Devil’s Punch Bowl—and supports cutting-edge trials, including self-healing bitumen. -Operators and uniformed traffic officers patrol 24/7 from control centres, managing incidents, warning drivers, and keeping traffic flowing. -The authority sets design standards via the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges and publishes contract and maintenance frameworks used across the UK and Commonwealth. -Regulated by the Office of Rail and Road and guided by multi-year funding cycles, it balances reliability, safety, innovation and value for taxpayers.

Sector Specialisms

Highway assets and design

Fencing and vehicle safety restraints

Electrical and land drilling

Road surfaces, paving and surface marking

Manufacturing, structures, fasteners and coatings

Temporary traffic management

Landscaping and environment

Tunnel management and incident management