The Senior Bridge Engineer will play a crucial role in shaping the future of transportation within AtkinsRéalis' Bridges and Civils team. This role involves leading the design, assessment, and maintenance of structural projects across the UK and Ireland, contributing to high-quality civil and structural designs for new builds, renewals, maintenance, and assessments on significant infrastructure projects.
What You'll Do
- Take pride in developing high-quality civil and structural designs for new constructions, renewals, maintenance, and assessments.
- Collaborate with both national and international design teams, using expertise and leadership to create positive, sustainable impacts on society and the environment.
- Manage the production of, and review, high quality design documentation including sketches, drawings, 3D BIM deliverables, analysis models, calculations, reports and specifications.
- Able to understand a client’s problem and bring the different capabilities of AtkinsRéalis together to develop a solution.
- Independently carry out technical work and provide guidance to junior staff members.
- Develop capability within the team and wider business.
- Lead teams in the design, assessment, and maintenance of structural projects, and providing structures related input on multi-disciplinary projects.
- Use analytical skills to derive potential solutions to engineering problems and engineering judgement to appraise different options and recommend the most suitable option.
- Engage with and manage internal and external stakeholders.
- Identify new opportunities and growth propositions and bring value into the business by seeing these through to new work for themselves and others.
- Lead bids and tenders, winning work and developing Client relationships.
- Keep abreast of state-of-the-art methods and developments in area of specialisation.
What We're Looking For
- A degree in Civil or Structural Engineering or a related discipline.
- A professional qualification (CEng/IEng) and membership of the ICE, Engineers Ireland or IStructE.
- Experience of working with key clients such as Department for Infrastructure, Translink, local authorities, major contractors and developers.
- Good understanding of relevant design standards (e.g. Eurocodes, DMRB, MCHW and Network Rail/Translink standards).
- Practical knowledge and experience of bridge design, maintenance and assessment.
- Experience of structural analysis software packages such as LUSAS, MIDAS and Autodesk Structural Bridge Design.
- Proven knowledge in design, maintenance and supervision of structures related projects together with a track record of innovation in design and management of highway structures.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to converse with a wide range of clients, stakeholders and colleagues across a number of engineering disciplines.
- Good project management skills, commercial awareness, financial control and ability to deliver across a range of contract types.
- Ability to manage stakeholders, e.g. specialist suppliers, independent checkers and local authorities.
Technical Stack
- LUSAS
- MIDAS
- Autodesk Structural Bridge Design
- 3D BIM
Team & Environment
- Bridges and Civils team within Transportation business
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive salaries
- Employee rewards
- Brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices
- Opportunities for training and professional development
- Hybrid working culture
- Flexible holiday allowances
- Flexible and remote working policies
- Family friendly, inclusive employment policies
- Flexible working arrangements
- Employee resource groups to support all employees
Compensation includes competitive salaries and employee rewards.
Work Mode
Hybrid working with locations in UK and Ireland. Flexible and remote working policies designed to help you get the most out of life.
We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.
