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Drainage Engineer

Employer
National Highways
Location
Warrington, Preston or Penrith
Salary
£35,300 - £39,210
Closing date
18 Jun 2023

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Sector
Highways & transport jobs
Function
Civil Engineer
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Your new role

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Drainage Engineer to join our team in the North West region. Within this role, you will be undertaking the identification and evaluation of asset data and needs to develop early solutions, in line with agreed methodologies and prioritisation criteria and the designing of highway renewals and maintenance schemes.

This role can be based from our Warrington, Preston or Penrith office.

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

  • Develop early solutions for drainage improvements and/or renewals, including the compiling of relevant documents, evidence adoptions for value management, considering new techniques, materials, buildability, and costs.
  • Ensure that asset data and condition information is captured and maintained in the relevant database(s), in line with agreed standards and timescales.
  • Identify, prepare briefs and support delivery of survey works that support the improvement and/or renewal of drainage assets.
  • Develop technical briefs provided to external design services contractor for improvement and renewals work.
  • Design of highway renewals and maintenance schemes for drainage schemes.

To be successful you’ll need

  • Civil Engineering Degree or a qualification of a similar discipline
  • ICE Membership (desirable) or working towards Membership (essential)
  • Demonstrable experience in civil engineering (roads, drainage, highways design etc.)
  • Experience in scoping ground investigations and developing ground models
  • Proven ability to produce technical reports including desk studies, interpretative reports and specifications; preferably with a good knowledge of National Highways reporting processes.

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. We achieve this through the delivery our capital programme, supporting customers on the road with our Traffic Officer Service and managing incidents effectively.

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), e.g. 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 

We reserve the right to close before the advertisement expires.

Closing date for applications: Sunday 18th June 2023

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