Profile

I work for a company that is involved in maintaining and improving roads all across the UK.  Amey manages nearly 50,000km of local highways across the UK on behalf of local authorities. Maintainaing roads, footways and cycleways. We also deliver traffic management, street lighting, cleansing and grounds maintenance services, as well as gritting roads and pavements and clearing them of ice and snow in winter.

As part of my graduate programme I have rotated around different parts of the business, getting experience in various aspects of engineering involved in the work Amey carries out.

I am currently working in a business improvement role within highways, which means I oversee a lot of different contracts and look at ways in which to improve them.  I gained a lot of understanding of how contracts are managed while working in our Welsh Transport Technology Contract, helping to install technology across the road network to help improve safety and reliability.  From this experience, I have now been able to get involved in other contracts and help make sure the work we deliver is to high standard, meeting both our client and the publics expectations.  This work can range from health and safety requirements through to managing people.  It is so varied, and I enjoy the variety as I learnt lots from taking on new challenges.

I volunteer for a charity “Engineers Without Borders” who have a number of activities for shools about Internation Development Engineering. I would use the money to help develop an another workshop, in keeping with the theme .  Our workshops are aimed at young people ages 4-18 and are interactive, informative and great fun for all involved. We have a wide range of activites from building water filters to designing solar cars but there are always more activities that can be developed to inspire people into engineering, as well as showing them how important engineering is in alleviating poverty and improving lives dramatically.