Principal Engineer - Part Time

National Highways have an exciting opportunity for a part time (3 days a week) Principal Engineer (Road Safety) to join our team in the South West region. The Principle Road Safety Engineer will lead and coordinate the delivery of Road Safety Audits, Post Fatal Collision Reporting, Collision Analysis, identification of safety need and development of solutions to resolve identified safety 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 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.
You may be required to work unsociable hours as part of this role.
You will be required to drive as part of your role and you will need to have a full clean driving license to be considered for this position and during employment.
What you'll be leading on
+ Stage one, two, three and four audits in accordance with GG119.
+ Post fatal collision investigation reporting - ensuring we work collaboratively with the Stakeholders to establish the facts of the collision in the early stages of an investigation
+ Lead the development of feasibility studies for improvements and/or renewals, including the compiling and checking of relevant documents, evidence and options for value management, taking into account new techniques, technologies, buildability, and costs.
+ Identify and develop deliverable solutions to support IRAP star rating improvements to the Strategic road network (SRN)
+ Ensuring 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.
To be successful you'll need

+ A HND, HNC or to an equivalent operational standard/professional experience, a degree is not essential, along with relevant experience in road safety. Preferably you will have a membership of a relevant professional body such as ICE/CIHT/IHE, ideally actively working towards registration.
+ Must be able to undertake collision/incident analysis and identify risk areas in order to propose a remedy to resolve the identified problem. You will have experience in developing solutions to tackle those identified problems. You will be able to priorities schemes and develop a programme to deliver interventions.
+ You will have experience working with stakeholders and customers, helping them understand the needs and priorities of the relevant work area. You will be able to prioritise and communicate those priorities to internal and external stakeholders.
+ You will have experience in working on/with highways, in particular A roads and preferably Motorways. Your experience will include road safety activities such as dealing with collisions pre or post incident or experience of mitigating collision risk.
+ Knowledge of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) standards and their application on the highways network - in particular GG119

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.
An informal blended working approach has been adopted for many of our roles across National Highways. 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 blended working between base location/home
+ 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 plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort
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)
And finally
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