Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 9, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 9, 2026.
About the job.
National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Structures Engineer to join our Asset Management division within Operations. As a Structures Engineer, you will predominantly assist with the management of our structures by identifying asset needs and producing/reviewing risk management plans. The role will also entail elements of project management, like managing budgets and to an extent the supply chain to achieve our goals of maintaining our assets in line with our DMRB standards.
The Structures Engineer may also spend time developing treatment options and undertaking preliminary design work, or else undertaking structural reviews and assessment works for structures, while assuring adherence to defined asset policies and standards.
This role can be based from our Exeter or Bristol offices, however travel to sites/offices within region may be required.
You will be required to drive as part of your role and you will need to have a full driving licence, with no more than 3 points, to be considered for this position.
- Identify, prepare survey briefs, and support delivery of structures survey works that support the improvement, assessments and/or renewal of structures assets.
- Monitor the delivery of agreed assessment work liaising with technical partners; or the delivery of treatment options, liaising with the relevant delivery teams to aid successful delivery of schemes.
- Develop early solutions for improvements and/or renewals, including compiling relevant documents, evidence, and option reports for value management, considering new techniques, materials, buildability, and costs.
- Undertake structural reviews in accordance with CS 451 and structural assessment in accordance with DMRB standards.
- Assist with developing the regions asset led forward programme and initial scheme development, customer centric designs and technical specifications.
About you.
- Degree / HNC / HND in Civil Engineering (or similar) with vocational experience in a structures or highways setting.
- Knowledge of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) standards and their application on the highway network with good knowledge of CDM 2015 regulations.
- Membership of a professional body (e.g. ICE) or working towards membership.
- Experience in structures studies, renewals work design, or structural assessment
- Good stakeholder management and communication skills with strong customer focus
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.