Our client is looking to hire a Chartered Bridge Engineer with a minimum of seven years of relevant experience to join their team in Leeds.
Responsibilities:
* Work with existing and new bridge and civil structures across a range of materials and forms, superstructure, substructure and articulation elements
* Participate in the early project stages, including scoping, specifying and interpreting surveys, inspection and investigative works, optioneering and scheme design
* Undertake and manage detailed design work, including modelling, calculations and overseeing drawing production
* Support business development, including meeting prospective clients, seeking leads and bidding/tendering
* Prepare and check documents, including specifications, contract documents and technical reports
* Act as: a signatory to Approval in Principle (AIP) reports; design and cat 3 check certificates; client representative; and designers site representative
* Interface with clients from local and national authorities, consultants, and design-build (D&B) contractors amongst others.
Required Experience:
* Hold the title of Chartered Engineer with the ICE, IStructE or equivalent
* A minimum of seven years' post-graduate professional bridges experience in the civil or structural engineering client/consultancy/construction sector
* Excellent technical knowledge and engineering understanding of bridges
* Ability to manage and monitor the finances of assigned projects within designated budgets
* Experience of contributing to fee proposals and tenders (quality and commercial submissions)
* Demonstrable responsibility for entire bridge-related projects or significant proportions of such projects
* Experience interacting directly with clients and other disciplines and managing bridge engineers and technicians
* Experience undertaking and supporting contract documentation, checking and contract implementation activity on assigned projects
* Ability to communicate effectively with external parties, in person and in writing
* Good knowledge of structural analysis software including finite element analysis
* Excellent knowledge of and experience in the use of the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) and other standards and legislation in the field of UK bridge/structural design including Eurocodes
* Comfortable working in a busy work environment with tight deadlines
* Flexible, motivated and focused
* Excellent attention to detail
* Fluent orhighly proficient in spoken and written English
Desirable:Multidisciplinary consultancy or contracting experience from allied civil engineering disciplines, such as highways, structures, geotechnics, rail or water.
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