Senior Engineer-Road Safety

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Job Description

About the job.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Highway Engineer to join the Improvements Team in either our Wakefield or Darlington office. This role will lead and coordinate the delivery of Post Fatal Collision Reporting, manage the YNE Collision Database, undertake collision analysis, identify safety needs and develop solutions to resolve the issues.

At National Highways you will have the opportunity to make real change for the customers that use and live alongside England's biggest road network. You will use your experience and creative skills to deliver a safer road network, taking ownership of safety to protect our customers. You will work with internal and external stakeholders, including Road Safety Partnerships, to deliver interventions that will lead directly to a reduction in collisions.

• Post collision fatal investigation reporting - ensuring we work collaboratively with the Stakeholders to establish the facts of the collision in the early stages of an investigation;
• Managing data for the YNE Region in the KeyAccident Collision Database and providing reports on and statistics relating to collisions;
• Supporting and undertaking analysis of collisions to identify patterns and clusters on the road network and to support IRAP star rating improvements to the Strategic Road Network (SRN);
• Supporting the development of designs/feasibility studies for improvements and/or renewals, including the compiling/checking of relevant documents and collating evidence/options for Value Management, while taking into account new techniques, technologies, buildability, and costs. You may work on a multitude of other road safety activities to implement mitigation packages;
• Supporting the Safe Systems Approach to ensure that we deliver in the appropriate areas to improve road safety.

You may be required to work unsociable hours as part of this role, including representing National Highways as an Expert Witness in Coroner's Courts.

About you.

• A Degree, Higher National Diploma or other appropriate qualification in a relevant discipline relating to Highway Design, Road Safety or Collision Investigation and either membership of a relevant professional body such as ICE/CIHT/ITAI, or be working towards registration;
• Experience of investigating fatal and serious collisions and/or be trained to PIP2, with experience of investigating serious criminality or history in forensic collision reconstruction;
• Experience working on high-speed highways, preferably Trunk Roads and Motorways in the field of collision investigation and road safety engineering, including identifying network needs and priorities;
• Knowledge and experience of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) standards and Advice Notes, and the use of Standards in design. You will have proven experience in the application of standards on a highways network;
• AutoCAD skills and knowledge of managing and maintaining databases.

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.

About Us

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.

A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.

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 an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working
• 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

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)
• Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)

And finally

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