Structures Engineer
| Posting date: | 19 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,190 to £43,240 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 September 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol, Bristol, BS35 4BE |
| Company: | National Highways |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6618_1755513599 |
Summary
About the job.
Join National Highways and work on some of the UK's most iconic and technically challenging bridges! We're looking for a Structures Engineer to join our Specialist Bridges Group at the Severn Bridge Office in Aust, South Gloucestershire.
From the M4 Prince of Wales Bridge to the M48 Severn Bridge and M5 Avonmouth Bridge, you'll help maintain, manage, and improve long span crossings that are vital to the Strategic Road Network.
If you're an experienced structural engineer with long span bridge expertise, or you've honed your skills on other major structures and are ready to step into this unique specialism, this is your chance to make a real impact while developing your skills at the highest level of bridge engineering.
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.
- Identify, prepare survey briefs, and support delivery of structures survey works that support the improvement, assessments and/or renewal of structures assets.
- Monitor the delivery of agreed assessment work liaising with technical partners; or the delivery of treatment options, liaising with the relevant delivery teams to aid successful delivery of schemes.
- Develop early solutions for improvements and/or renewals, including compiling relevant documents, evidence, and option reports for value management, considering new techniques, materials, buildability, and costs.
- Undertake structural reviews in accordance with CS 451 and structural assessment in accordance with DMRB standards.
- Assist with developing the regions asset led forward programme and initial scheme development, customer centric designs and technical specifications.
About you.
- Degree or HND in relevant discipline and appropriate experience, or equivalent and working towards a professional membership or professional body.
- Experience in structures studies, renewals work design, or structural assessment, ideally with long span bridges, or equivalent structures experience with a desire to move into this specialism.
- Good stakeholder management and communication skills with strong customer focus
- Knowledge of National Highways standards (DMRB, MCHW and Eurocodes) and their application on the highways network.
- Knowledge of CDM 2015.
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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