Road Safety Engineer

About the job.

National Highways have an exciting opportunity for an Engineer to join our Road Safety team in the Yorkshire North East region.

The successful candidate will work in a multi-disciplinary role in the Road Safety team which will include developing schemes, identification of safety problems and working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders. You will also take part in/lead road safety audits, post collision investigations and be offered training where required to fulfil your duties.

At National Highways you will have the opportunity to make a real difference for the customers that use and live alongside England’s biggest road networks. You will support the delivery of the Safe Systems approach and work with internal and external stakeholders including Road Safety Partnerships to deliver interventions that will lead directly to a reduction in collisions.

This role will be based from our Wakefield Office.

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.

• Supporting the development of feasibility studies for improvements and/or renewals, including production of relevant documents and drawings, collation of evidence to support option development and appraisal of benefits, 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.
• Delivering stage one, two, three and four road safety audits in accordance with GG119. You will be trained up in this area if you’re not currently qualified to audit.
• Post collision investigation reporting – which will include working collaboratively with other Stakeholders to establish the facts of a collision in the early stages of an investigation.
• Supporting and undertaking analysis of collisions to identify patterns and clusters on the road network and to support RAP star rating improvements to the Strategic Road network (SRN).
• Ensuring that health & safety needs and the wellbeing of customers and employees are fully considered and accounted for throughout the planning and delivery of each service activity.

About you.

• Experience in Highways/Road Design and application of standards to develop schemes and interventions. Ideally this will include experience of mitigating collision risk and knowledge of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) standards and their application on the highways network – in particular GG119. Working knowledge of using AutoCAD and associated software packages is also essential.
• A Degree/ HND or HNC in a relevant field such as civil/highways engineering along with relevant experience and membership of a relevant professional body such as ICE/CIHT/IHE, ideally actively working towards registration.
• Experience with road safety audits. Ideally you will already meet the GG119 criteria to be an audit team member but this is not essential as training can be provided.
• Experience with identifying and mitigating road safety related concerns, such as the cause of collisions and developing/delivering a mitigation to reduce the likelihood.
• Must be able to work independently and prioritise work, as well as communicate effectively to ensure customers/stakeholders are aware of and understand those priorities.

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.

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