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Scheme Coordinator

National Highways

The Role

Overview

Coordinate construction scheme documentation, H&S files and data for timely delivery.

Key Responsibilities

  • roadspace booking
  • clash analysis
  • scheme docs
  • planning meetings
  • hs files
  • data management

Tasks

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 have a fantastic opportunity to join National Highways as a Scheme Co-ordinator to support the delivery of construction schemes, by ensuring all relevant H&S and scheme completion documentation and data capture are effectively planned, coordinated, stored and controlled. 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. -Coordinate and secure Roadspace bookings, managing Clash Analysis reports to ensure confirmed access and enable efficient scheme delivery. -Prepare and issue scheme completion documentation promptly to all relevant stakeholders. -Attend and contribute to construction planning and programming meetings, ensuring that health, safety, and wellbeing considerations are fully integrated throughout all project activities. -Support the development of Health and Safety (H&S) files through the accurate and timely collation of required data. -Ensure the completion, collation, and secure storage of all construction scheme documentation and data within the appropriate databases and systems.

Requirements

  • highway
  • stakeholder mgmt
  • metrics analysis
  • ms office
  • qualifications
  • communication

What You Bring

-Understanding of highway construction and delivery methods -Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable) -Excellent stakeholder management -Evidence of identification and use of appropriate metrics for analysis and interpretation of information -DBS criminal record check -3 year employment history references -Driving licence check (if applicable) -Social media and adverse journalism check -IT Literate and experience of using MS Office packages -Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable) -Excellent communications manager

Benefits

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. Our benefits package A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home. -Right to work check -Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience -Life assurance of 4 times annual salary -Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays) -Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines -Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme -Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year -Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working -Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus -Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities -A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel -Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%

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

Security Clearance

-right to work check -3 year employment history references -dbs criminal record check -social media and adverse journalism check -driving licence check (if applicable) -fit to work questionnaire (for all) followed by a medical check (if applicable) -qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)