Your new role

Here at National Highways, we currently have an opportunity for a Structures Engineering Team Manager to join our team in either our Bedford or Cambridge office. Within this role, you will be managing the regions Structures assets and lead a team of engineers in identifying and prioritising asset needs and developing early scheme solutions for renewals and improvements.

It’s an exciting time to begin a career with National Highways as we invest in our motorways and A Roads boosting capacity, tackling congestion, and improving safety.

You will be required to drive as part of your role and you will need to have a full clean driving license to be considered for this position and during employment.

What you’ll be leading on

• Provide direction and line management for a team of specialist engineers, ensuring timely setting of aims, performance management reviews and development of appropriate succession and development plans.
• Manage the utilisation and allocation of team resources to ensure appropriate resourcing levels for all the activities in scope, including providing technical support for Project Managers in the scheme design and delivery process.
• Be the asset owner for the structures asset class, ensuring asset specific management plans adhere to defined policies and standards, provide value for money and maximise contribution to delivery.
• Ensure that all asset needs are identified, prioritised and managed in accordance with required governance and to achieve business aims.
• Act as the Region’s focal point and provide technical expertise in the identification and prioritisation of asset specific needs, renewal and improvement option evaluation and selection, and development of early solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering colleagues, Project Managers, Service Delivery Managers and Route Managers to ensure that regional forward programmes, capital investment and maintenance plans reflect asset needs and considerations, are developed in a way that is compliant with the relevant technical policies and standards, and take into account new techniques, materials, buildability, and costs.
• Commission related studies and surveys, effectively administering associated budgets and resources.

To be successful you’ll need

• A Chartered Civil or Structural Engineer with appropriate experience
• Civil Engineering Degree, or equivalent.
• Thorough knowledge of asset condition assessment and degradation modelling
• Experience of developing asset management plans
• Extensive experience of managing a technical team
• Good commercial and financial acumen, including budget management

A bit about us

Making sure our customers have safe and reliable journeys is at the heart of everything we do in Operations. We keep the roads open for business and play a key role in making sure the network we manage is fit for purpose today and for the future. 

Why you should join us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this.  We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers. 

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it – then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.

An informal blended working approach has been adopted for many of our roles across National Highways. We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we’re open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times. 

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our benefits package

• Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
• Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
• Flexible hours and blended working between base location/home
• Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
• 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
• A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
• Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are

• 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
• 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 plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort

If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:       

• 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)

And finally 

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