Structures Inspector
| Posting date: | 16 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £39,340 to £44,970 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 March 2026 |
| Location: | Bristol, Bristol, BS32 4SR |
| Company: | National Highways |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7159_1771232814 |
Summary
About the Role.
At National Highways, we're looking for a Structures Inspector to join our team based in the South West.
As a Structures Inspector, you'll be responsible for completing inspections of non-complex highways assets (Bridges, Retaining Walls, Culverts, Sign Gantries), in line with agreed inspections schedules, procedures and standards, raising appropriate works and undertaking checks on the quality and quantity of maintenance work. You'll also collect data to inform prioritisation and development of maintenance schemes.
We recognise that valuable skills come from a variety of backgrounds. If you have experience in technical inspections, infrastructure maintenance, construction, structural monitoring or similar practical environments, we encourage you to apply.
Following training and competency assessment, in this role you will have on-call duty responsibilities where you will attend incidents on site and provide advice as required.
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.
- Deliver cyclical and ad-hoc inspections of non-complex highway assets, identify defects, defect causes and options for remedial actions
- Document asset condition and all inspection findings, including monitoring inspections, in relevant systems in line with agreed standards, ensuring asset data is up to date and correct
- Contribute to development of the inspections programme and support Senior Inspectors and Inspection Manager in planning activities. For example, arranging road space, creating orders for suppliers, producing specifications for the procurement of monitoring, investigation and other special inspections of structures
- Liaise with engineering teams and support the development of maintenance and investment plans and prioritisation by gathering adequate data
- Complete reports, technical drawings and studies to support inspection findings and asset condition information management
About you.
- Have achieved or working towards HNC/HND in Civil Engineering or similar relevant engineering discipline
- Have achieved or working towards Inspector Level of NHSS31 Bridge Inspector Certification Scheme (BICS) or similar certification, such as STE 3, 4 & 7
- Experience of undertaking inspections with knowledge of the defects and maintenance needs of highways, rail or infrastructure assets
- Awareness of Health & Safety and CDM regulations as appropriate to highway, rail or Infrastructure maintenance works
- Understanding of asset management databases
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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