Structures Engineering Team Manager

National Highways; Warrington; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

About the job.

Here at National Highways, we currently have an opportunity for a Structures Engineering Team Manager to join our team. Within this role, you will be managing the regions Structures assets and lead a team of engineers in identifying and prioritising asset needs and developing early scheme solutions for renewals and improvements.

This role can be based from our Warrington, Manchester, Preston, Penrith, Wakefield, Darlington or Leeds 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.

• Manage the utilisation and allocation of team resources to ensure appropriate resourcing levels for all the activities in scope, including providing technical support for Project Managers in the scheme design and delivery process.
• Be the asset owner for the structures asset class, ensuring asset specific management plans and asset management decisions adhere to defined policies and standards, provide value for money and maximise contribution to the delivery of business objectives.
• Ensure that all asset needs are identified, prioritised and managed in accordance with required governance and to achieve business objectives.
• Act as the Region's focal point and provide technical expertise in the identification and prioritisation of asset specific needs, renewal and improvement option evaluation and selection, and development of early solutions.
• Authorise technical briefs, reports, specifications, drawings and supporting information.

About you.

• A Chartered Civil or Structural Engineer with appropriate experience.
• Civil Engineering Degree or equivalent.
• Good knowledge of CDM 2015.
• Excellent Stakeholder management.
• Extensive experience of managing a technical team.

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.