Field Engineer

We have a fantastic opportunity for a permanent, Field Engineer to join our Highways England team on-site in Bolton.

Amey is working in partnership with Highways England, to provide maintenance and response services for more than 300 miles of strategic road network in the Northwest, connecting the cities of Manchester, Liverpool and the surrounding areas.

Responsible for incident response, winter maintenance services, and severe weather delivery, the teams will oversee traffic management during incidents on some of the region’s busiest motorways: the M6, M56 and M62.

We aim to provide the best possible quality of service to our customers by ensuring we deliver a well-maintained strategic road network for the Northwest through all-weather seasons and traffic incidents.

The Field Engineer plays an important part in carrying out cyclic and reactive maintenance. The role involves responsibility for technology maintenance on the Northwest motorway and trunk road network in Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Merseyside, and Lancashire on various types of equipment.

The standard hours of work are42 hours per week, Monday – Friday.

Work-life balance and flexibility are key for our success. We empower our people to make choices that are right for them, with hybrid, part-time and flexible work patterns. And with a network of offices across the UK, we’re open to discussing working options that suit you.

You will be responsible for:

• Routine and corrective maintenance of roadside highway technology assets, ancillary equipment and/or other highways systems to ensure effective delivery of ADAMr service levels, further supported by period inspections
• Accurate collection and processing of data to enable fault free analysis of equipment performance
• Analysis of data to assess performance of equipment within contractual requirements, ensuring correct storage of information once complete
• Out of hours working to support service contract requirements. Including on-call fault attendance rota and/or out of hours maintenance to ensure contract restore times are met
• Undertake appropriate training with the addition of new equipment and systems as and when necessary, via formal and informal training, including on the job training

We want to hear from you if you have:

• Successful completion of mandatory NHSS training requirements; working towards LANTRA ‘Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Servicing and commissioning Highway Electrical Systems’ qualification
• Excellent communication skills at all levels to create great working relationships
• Effective planning and organisation tools to better help day to day problem solving
• Proactive solutions and are self-motivated
• A UK driving licence is essential for this role

In addition to this, it would be desirable if you have HNC or B/TEC in Electrical/Electronics/Telecommunications Engineering and experience working on Highways Technology assets or closely related technical skills to help you hit the ground running, although this is not essential as we will provide you with the required development you need to bring you up to speed.

When you join us, we can offer flexibility, career development, a choice of benefits and support that help you through all life’s ups and downs. It’s the reason why Investors in People put us among the top 1% of employers and we have a competitive reward and benefits program.

• Career Development - Exceptional development and progression plan
• Pension– Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to
• Holidays- Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• Choices- Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership
• Save with Amey - Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in. It includes healthcare, free GP service, dental vouchers
• Social Value- You’ll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives
• Company Car / Car allowance

We embrace differenceand support individualsto work in ways that work best for them.

We are committed to working sustainablyand by working in partnership with the communities we serve, so people and the planet are protected.

At Amey, you have freedom to perform because we know if nothing holds you back, together, we can be extraordinary.

• We are at the heart of modern Britain, helping the economy to grow by designing, maintaining and transforming the nation’s strategic assets.

• Our 11,000 people are behind the critical services the country relies on every day.

• Our unique engineering and operationsexperience, together with data driven insight from our consulting business, delivers better results for our clients.

• We are trusted partners of Government – both national and local – managing assets and complex projects that are vital to the sustainable growth of the country.

To find out more take a look at our website www.amey.co.uk

Amey is committed to Inclusion and Diversity. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

Please contact our recruitment team at peopleservices@amey.co.uk to discuss any access needs and reasonable adjustments that may be required at any point during the recruitment process.

Apply today – We are excited to hear from you!