Bridge Asset Lead – Major Structures

TXM Recruit; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Car / Car Allowance

Generous pension

Flexible benefits

Training and professional development

Job summary

TXM Recruit is seeking a Bridge Manager to lead inspection, maintenance and operational management of a major highway structure in the South West. The role combines asset management, technical engineering and leadership of a multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, timely and cost-effective works.

You will oversee inspections, renewals and repairs, interpret defects and risks, and ensure coordination between engineering, construction and operations while maintaining stakeholder relationships and

Qualifications

• Significant experience working with bridges or complex civil engineering structures.
• Structures-based asset management, inspection and maintenance experience.
• Strong understanding of structural defects, inspections and engineering risk.
• Experience delivering maintenance, repair or renewal programmes.
• Leadership of multidisciplinary engineering and operational teams.
• Strong client and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience managing specialist contractors and supply chains.
• Knowledge of CDM and Principal Contractor responsibilities.
• Experience working with NEC contracts.
• Understanding of programme, cost, risk, commercial and safety management.
• Experience operating in live, safety-critical infrastructure environments.

Responsibilities

• Leading structural inspection, maintenance, repair and renewal activities.
• Providing technical and operational leadership across a complex major structure.
• Interpreting inspection findings, structural defects and associated engineering risks.
• Managing and developing a multidisciplinary inspection and operations team.
• Coordinating planned, reactive and time-critical engineering works.
• Overseeing workbanks, programmes, access arrangements and resources.
• Managing specialist contractors and the wider engineering supply chain.
• Supporting structural renewal schemes through design and construction.
• Ensuring effective integration between inspection, maintenance, construction and operational activities.
• Managing programme, cost, risk, safety and contractual performance.

Skills

Bridge inspections

Asset management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Decision making under pressure

Education

Chartered or Incorporated status in Civil/Structural Engineering

Job description

TXM Recruit is seeking a Bridge Manager to lead inspection, maintenance and operational management of a major highway structure in the South West. The role combines asset management, technical engineering and leadership of a multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, timely and cost-effective works.

You will oversee inspections, renewals and repairs, interpret defects and risks, and ensure coordination between engineering, construction and operations while maintaining stakeholder relationships and