Senior Bridges & Structures Engineer - Maintenance and Inspections

WSP Global Inc.; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP Global Inc. in Gloucester is seeking a Senior Engineer to help manage and deliver a major bridges programme for Gloucestershire County Council (GCC).

You will contribute to inspections, assessments and improvements that keep assets safe and performant, while coordinating with GCC officers and WSP specialists. You’ll join an established team with wide expertise, delivering design and asset-management tasks across the lifecycle of bridges and structures, and supporting the county’s ambitious

Qualifications

• A Civil Engineering degree or equivalent qualification.
• Progress towards a professional engineering qualification; Incorporated or Chartered status would be valued.
• Experience with bridges, highways, or civil structures.

Responsibilities

• Identify maintenance requirements for bridge assets.
• Support structural inspections and assessments with GCC.
• Develop repair and strengthening options.
• Prioritise interventions to maximise asset performance.
• Collaborate across WSP and GCC teams throughout the project lifecycle.

Skills

Bridges & structures eng

Inspection & assessment

Client & stakeholder comms

Health & safety

Project delivery

Education

Civil Engineering degree or equivalent

Job description

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A little more about your role…

Join our Bridges team in Gloucester at an exciting time as we embark on the early stages of WSP’s long-term professional services partnership with Gloucestershire County Council (GCC).

This is a unique opportunity to work closely with GCC in the management, maintenance and improvement of its bridges and highway structures, helping ensure these important assets remain safe, serviceable and fit for the future.

Working side-by-side with GCC officers within their offices, you’ll become an integral part of the client team. Rather than operating solely as an external consultant, you’ll build strong working relationships with the people responsible for Gloucestershire’s structures portfolio and contribute directly to decisions around inspection, assessment, maintenance, repair, strengthening and improvement works.

You’ll join an established team with extensive knowledge of the varied structures across the county, while also having access to specialist expertise and additional resources from WSP’s wider structures community.

It is an especially exciting time to join. GCC is investing significantly in its structures programme, providing an extensive and varied pipeline of work focused on protecting, maintaining and improving existing bridge and structural assets.

As a Senior Engineer, you’ll play an important role in developing and delivering this programme. Your work could involve identifying maintenance requirements, supporting structural inspections and assessments, developing repair and strengthening solutions, and helping prioritise interventions to maximise the performance and longevity of assets.

While there will be opportunities to contribute to design, this is not a solely design-focused role. It offers the chance to become involved across the lifecycle of bridges and structures, combining technical engineering knowledge with practical asset management, maintenance and client-facing responsibilities.

Gloucestershire also has an ambitious programme of major transport projects designed to improve the network and support the county’s economy. This provides additional opportunities to contribute to the development, design and delivery of significant new structures alongside the core maintenance and improvement programme.

What we’ll be looking for you to demonstrate

• A passion for bridges and structures engineering and for delivering projects that make a tangible difference to local communities.
• Experience working with existing bridge, highway or civil engineering structures, ideally encompassing areas such as inspection, assessment, maintenance, repair, rehabilitation or strengthening.
• An understanding of how inspection and assessment information can be used to inform maintenance priorities and engineering interventions.
• A strong and mature approach to Health & Safety, with good knowledge of relevant legislation and the ability to promote high standards across projects, colleagues and clients.
• Confidence communicating with clients, stakeholders and technical colleagues, with the ability to explain engineering issues clearly and contribute constructively to decision-making.
• A Civil Engineering degree or equivalent relevant qualification.
• Progress towards an appropriate professional engineering qualification. Incorporated or Chartered Engineer status would be highly regarded, as would relevant Structures experience within a local government/maintenance style contract.

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