Graduate Engineer (Structures)

targetjobs UK; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading highways service provider as a Graduate Engineer (Structures) in Chelmsford. Your role will involve creating designs for highway structures, conducting inspections, and ensuring projects meet deadlines and budgetary constraints. We seek analytical and communicative candidates with a degree in engineering, ready to contribute to our collaborative team.

Benefits

Sick Pay

Employee Assistance Programme

Pension scheme

Qualifications

• Familiarity with Eurocodes and modern standards like DMRB.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety legislation.
• Basic structural software understanding.

Responsibilities

• Prepare Highway Structure schemes and accurate sketches.
• Conduct inspections and support surveys for design solutions.
• Manage budgetary controls and prepare reports.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

Degree in Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

Microsoft applications

Job description

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Contract: Essex Highways

Location: Chelmsford

Contract Type: Permanent

Ringway Jacobs is seeking a motivated and skilled Graduate Engineer to join our Structures Team in Chelmsford. We are looking for a candidate with strong analytical skills and, ideally, some experience in a design office environment. In this role, you'll play a key part in designing refurbishment and replacement schemes for highway structures, while also conducting periodic inspections.

Working closely with the Team Leader, Senior Engineer, and fellow graduates, you'll be responsible for delivering projects on time and within budget. Strong communication skills—both written and verbal—are essential, as you'll be preparing detailed engineering reports, contracts, and progress updates.

The Role

• To contribute to the preparation of Highway Structure schemes
• To prepare accurate sketches and hand calculations
• To support survey of highway structures to input into design solutions
• Check own and others work, to ensure high standard of own and others work
• From time to time take part in the inspection of highway structures
• To assist in budgetary control and ensure that financial management is undertaken throughout areas of responsibility.
• To prepare monthly progress reports and programme updates
• To undertake structures inspections
  
  

About You

• Familiarity with Eurocodes and ideally with modern standards, DMRB, MCHW
• Basic knowledge and application of Health and Safety legislation including Construction (Design & Management) Regulations
• Conversant with Microsoft applications – Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Use of AutoCAD for the creation of drawings
• Knowledge of structural software with some familiarity
  
  

Benefits

At Ringway Jacobs we recognise that our people make the difference, and in order to do what we do well, particular care is taken in nurturing and investing in our people. That’s why you will always be given the opportunity to utilise your expertise and develop your career.

Ringway Jacobs recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles. We therefore welcome applications from people looking for an alternative working pattern e.g. part-time hours, job share etc.

In Return For Your Hard Work You Will Receive

• Sick Pay
• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to purchase up to 5 days extra leave
• A variety of discounts through our “RJ Rewards” app, including restaurants, holidays, days out etc
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Pension scheme
  
  

The Company

We are Ringway Jacobs, a leading highways service provider working with local authorities across the UK. Formed in 2005, specifically to provide road network management solutions to local government, our unique blend of engineering capability, innovation and customer care make us the best in class. We support over 10,000 miles of highways, 10,000 miles of footway, almost 7,800 miles of public rights of way and 242,000 street lights. We excel in delivering safe, sustainable service excellence, through our passion, integrity and collaborative culture.

Ringway Jacobs is an equal opportunities employer. We wish to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all our employees.

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