Scheme Coordinator


Company:	National Highways
Salary:	£30,200 to £32,800 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Maidstone, ME14 3EN
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	18 Sept 2026
Closing date:	2 Oct 2026

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Summary

About the job.

We have a fantastic opportunity to join National Highways as a Scheme Co-ordinator to support the planning and delivery of construction schemes, primarily by supporting Project Managers manage roadspace and network occupancy processes, ensuring closures are effectively planned, coordinated and managed.

Here at National Highways, we manage one of the world's most advanced road networks. We care about the journeys our customers make, we want them to get home safe and well, and we want to connect our country to benefit our economy, business and our customers. We exist to connect the country, because we believe a connected country is better for everyone.

You will:

Coordinate and secure Roadspace bookings, managing Clash Analysis reports to ensure confirmed access and enable efficient scheme delivery.

Prepare and issue scheme related documentation promptly to all relevant project team members and stakeholders.

Ensure the completion, collation, and secure storage of all scheme documentation and data within the appropriate databases and systems.

Attend and contribute to construction planning and programming meetings, ensuring that health, safety, and wellbeing considerations are fully integrated throughout all project activities.

About you.

Understanding of highway construction and delivery methods

IT Literate and experience of using MS Office packages

Excellent stakeholder management

Evidence of identification and use of appropriate metrics for analysis and interpretation of information

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Desirable - awareness of National Highways roadspace booking systems, Street Manager and Causeway (One Network)

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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