Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 9, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 9, 2026.
Are you an experienced Highways Engineer looking for the next step within your career? Then National Highways has the role for you!
We’re looking for an Engineer to join our teams based in the East but, working directly from our Bedford office, to lead and coordinate the activities and resources involved in the facilitation of Technical Surveys.
These roles will have a hybrid working approach, where typically you’ll spend 2 days per week in the office and 3 days working from home.
- Ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of customers and employees are fully considered throughout the planning and delivery of all service activities.
- Collaborate with Engineering colleagues, SDF and TST Contractors, GI Contractors, Project Managers, Service Delivery Managers and Route Managers to ensure technical survey programmes support regional capital programmes.
- Process survey packages and facilitate the delivery of survey works that support the improvement and renewal of assets.
- Support the capture and maintenance of road asset data and condition information within relevant databases and GIS mapping systems, in line with agreed standards and timescales.
- Ensure accurate cost capture across contracts, supporting the preparation of survey forecasts, associated risk profiles and the processing of payment applications.
- Develop technical survey briefs for design and construction contractors and process survey quotations through the TST process and SDF via CEMAR.
About you.
- Good knowledge of CDM 2015, CSCS Card Holder, SSSTS or SMSTS Certificate essential.
- Experience in AutoCAD/ ArcGIS.
- Experience in highways construction, delivery and procurement methods (high-speed road Trunk Road/ Motorway Networks and TST/ SDF contractors).
- Knowledge of DMRB, MCHW, Chapter 8 and their application on the highways network.
- Degree or HND in relevant discipline and appropriate experience, or equivalent.
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.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.