Senior Road Markings Engineer
| Posting date: | 08 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,030 to £52,120 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 September 2025 |
| Location: | Maidstone, Kent, ME14 3EN |
| Company: | National Highways |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6541_1757324070 |
Summary
About the job.
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Road Markings engineer to join our team in the South East. Within this role, you will be leading and coordinating the activities and resources involved in the identification of asset needs and development of early solutions for the asset class in scope, while assuring adherence to defined asset policies and standards; 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.
- 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
- Lead and coordinate the 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.
- Lead the development of early solutions 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.
- Monitor the delivery of agreed early solutions and plans, liaising with the relevant teams to identify and/or rectify issues.
- Ensure that asset data and condition information is captured and maintained in the relevant database(s), in line with agreed standards and timescales.
About you.
- A Chartered or Incorporated Engineer and member of a relevant professional Body with appropriate experience,
- Degree or HND in relevant discipline and appropriate experience, or equivalent
- Knowledge of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) standards and their application on the highways network
- Good knowledge of CDM 2015
- Strong knowledge of asset condition assessment (CS126) and degradation modelling
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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