Structures Technician

National Highways; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

About the job.

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Structures Technician to join our team in the Yorkshire, North East region. The Structures Technician will support in the identification of structures specific needs, development of solutions and asset management activities. The role may be required to work unsociable hours.

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure the health and safety needs and wellbeing of customers and employees are fully considered and accounted for throughout the planning and delivery of each service activity.
• Support the identification and evaluation of asset specific needs in order to develop future maintenance, renewals and improvement solutions.
• Support the development of asset renewals and improvement plans, in line with agreed methodologies and prioritisation criteria.
• Provide support in the identification and management of asset studies and survey works.
• Input into the development of early solutions for improvements and/or renewals, including the compiling of relevant documents, evidence and options for value management.

About you.

• HND/C or other relevant qualification with relevant experience, or working towards
• Knowledge of asset condition assessment and degradation modelling
• Knowledge of DMRB standards and their application on the highways network
• Experience in highway infrastructure design
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

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.