Senior Engineer

About the job.

National Highways have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Lighting Engineer to join our team in the East region. The Senior Lighting Engineer will lead and coordinate the activities and resources involved in the identification of asset needs and development of early solutions for this asset class, whilst assuring adherence to defined asset policies and standards.

As a Senior Lighting Engineer, you would be leading on the development and management of our lighting asset. In the East we maintain 9,000 lighting columns, 3,000 lit signs and our own private cable network.

This role can be based from our Bedford, Cambridge or our Ipswich office.

Please note that you will be required to drive as part of your role, and you will need to have no more than 3 points to be considered for this position and during employment.

• Lead and coordinate the activities and resources involved in the identification and evaluation of asset needs/data, in order to develop early solutions, in line with agreed methodologies and prioritisation criteria.
• Lead the development of early solutions for improvements and/or renewals, including the compiling and checking of relevant documents, evidence and options for value management, taking into account new techniques, materials, buildability, and costs.
• Monitor the delivery of agreed early solutions and plans, liaising with the relevant teams to identify and/or rectify issues.
• Develop the technical briefs provided to the design and construction contractors for improvement and renewals work.
• Ensure that asset data and condition information is captured and maintained in the relevant database(s), in line with agreed standards and timescales.

About you.

• A Chartered or Incorporated Civil or Lighting Engineer with appropriate experience, or equivalent.
• Experience in Highways Lighting Asset management, inspection, assessment and design.
• Degree or HND in relevant discipline or hold the Institute of Lighting Professionals Diploma or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge and practical experience of lighting and electrical asset condition assessment, testing and analysis and degradation modelling
• Working knowledge of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) standards and relevant British Standards, and their application to lighting asset maintenance on the highways network
• Good knowledge of Construction Design Management 2015 (CDM) and associated duties.

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.