Your New Role
National Highways have an exciting opportunity for an Electrical and Lighting Engineer to join our team in the Midlands, to be based from our Nottingham office with a mix of on-site / office / home working.
The team is responsible for the asset management of the street lighting and electrical assets within the region. This includes everything including feeder pillars with the incoming public electricity supply, lighting columns and lanterns, illuminated signs and bollards and subways via a private cable network.
The team is responsible for the following functions;
- Asset Data; Update and maintain the asset data within an asset database.
- MRP; Providing the proposed annual routine maintenance program to Service Delivery.
- Inspection Reports; Technically reviewing the Electrical Test and Inspection and Column Structural reports that come back from Service Delivery that are gathered as part of MRP.
- Needs Identification and prioritisation; Using data from the inspection reports list the needs for assets nearing the end of their service life and prioritise them.
- Scheme Development; Identifying the scope of renewals projects identified by the prioritised needs and take them through a governance process. Followed by the next stage involves identifying options which includes arranging for technical surveys, and preliminary design.
- Design Reviews and Technical Approvals; Whether the scheme has been promoted as part of our capital renewals program, third party developers or Major Projects we will liaise and provide a Design for Maintenance Review and where applicable provide technical approval.
- Scheme Delivery Support; We are consulted on Material Approvals, provide a brief technical support to the construction teams on site during the construction stage
- This all then loops back to Asset Data and the cycle starts again.
Within this role, you will be developing feasibility studies and preliminary designs for improvements and/or renewals, including the compiling and checking of relevant documents, evidence and options for value management, taking into account new techniques, materials, buildability, and costs.
You will need to have a full driving licence, with no more than 3 points, to be considered for this position and during employment as you will be required to drive as part of your role.
What you'll be leading on
- Activities and resources involved in the identification and evaluation of asset data and needs in order to develop early solutions, in line with agreed methodologies and prioritisation criteria.
- Identify and prepare briefs to support delivery of survey works that support the improvement and/or renewal of assets.
- Develop technical briefs provided to external design services contractor for improvement and renewals work.
- Design of highway renewals and maintenance schemes.
- Identification and Management of smaller scale Interventions
- 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.
To be Successful you'll need
- Degree or HND, HNC in relevant discipline and or appropriate experience, or equivalent
- Experience in highway construction and delivery methods
- Experience of management, inspection and design of lighting and electrical renewal schemes,
- Demonstrable experience in AutoCAD, Lighting Reality, Cable calculation software,
- Prioritising of renewals work using risk based asset management approach,
- Good knowledge of CDM 2015
A bit about us
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.
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