Role description
As a senior or principal bridge engineer, you will be providing specialist and technically demanding input to the bridge and multidisciplinary civil engineering projects.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Working with both existing and new bridges and civil structures across a range of materials and forms, superstructure, substructure and articulation elements
- Involvement at early project stages: scoping, specifying and interpreting surveys, inspection and investigative works, optioneering, scheme design
- Detailed design: modelling, calculations, overseeing drawing production
- Document preparation, including authoring technical reports, such as AIPs, specifications and contract documents
- Reviewing the work of others: cat3 checkings, as a client representative and designer’s site representative
- Interfacing with clients from local and national authorities, consultants, and D&B contractors amongst others
- Supporting graduate engineers as they progress towards chartership
Essential Requirements
- Minimum Level 8 honours degree in civil/structural engineering or equivalent
- Minimum seven years’ (senior engineer) / 10 years’ (principal engineer) professional experience
- For exceptional candidates, fewer years’ experience than that outlined above may be considered
- A chartered engineer with the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) or equivalent
- Detailed knowledge and experience in the use of the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) and other standards and legislation
- Fluent/highly proficient in spoken and written English
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Good organisational skills
- Motivated individual with a strong work ethic
Desirable Requirements
- Ability to undertake and/or manage structural analysis modellings, such as grillages and finite element
- Multidisciplinary consultancy or contracting experience from allied civil engineering disciplines, such as highways, structural, geotechnics, rail or water
- A willingness and aptitude for understanding and contributing to colleagues’ work in areas beyond transportation infrastructure projects
- Interest in developing a business, liaising directly with clients and working on bids and tenders