Principal Technology Engineer
| Posting date: | 06 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,030 to £52,120 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 October 2025 |
| Location: | Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 3HS |
| Company: | National Highways |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6609_1759739333 |
Summary
About the job.
National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Principal Technology Engineer to join our Technology division within Operations. As a Principal Technology Engineer, you will apply your expert technology, asset management knowledge, skills, and significant experience to your specific discipline in highway infrastructure engineering and asset management.
This role can be based from either our Bedford, Cambridge or Ipswich offices on a hybrid basis.
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.
- Develop asset specific management plans and ensure asset management decisions adhere to defined policies and standards, provide value for money and maximise contribution to the delivery of business objectives
- Provide specialist technical expertise and assurance in the development of early solutions for renewals and improvement schemes, in line with agreed methodologies and prioritisation criteria, and taking into account new techniques, materials, buildability, and costs
- Identify and commission survey works to support the improvement and/or renewal of assets; to check and approve technical briefs, reports, specifications, drawings and
- Develop and recommend best practice methods for the identification and evaluation of asset condition and future needs in order to support the ongoing development of asset maintenance strategies for the asset class(es) in scope
- Continuously monitor and analyse asset data, to champion asset data quality, integrity and adherence to data standards and guidelines, and provide coaching and guidance to regional colleagues involved in data entry and maintenance
About you.
- Degree in Civil Engineering or a technical qualification of a similar discipline
- A Chartered or Incorporated Engineer with extensive experience, or equivalent.
- Strong knowledge of asset specific Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) standards and their application on the highways network
- Knowledge of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), National Highways Technology Assets, NRTS Infrastructure, loT, Telco. and IP technologies.
- Experience in highway construction and delivery methods and the associated responsibilities within 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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