Senior Engineer – Bridges & Structures Manager

Essential Employment; Rotherham; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering company is seeking a Senior Engineer – Bridges & Structures Manager in Rotherham. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership experience in transportation infrastructure, with a focus on road traffic and safety legislation. Responsibilities include managing highway structure assets and leading complex improvement schemes. Experience in AutoCAD and team leadership is essential. This is a full-time temporary contract position offering competitive pay rates.

Qualifications

• Seasoned Senior Engineer with leadership experience in transportation infrastructure.
• Proven track record in delivering complex projects on time and on budget.
• Experience leading teams and preparing technical/council reports.

Responsibilities

• Manage highway structure assets, including bridges and retaining walls.
• Lead the delivery of schemes of all values within the Transportation Capital Investment Programme.
• Provide consultancy advice and produce comprehensive technical reports.

Skills

Strong leadership experience

Expert knowledge of road traffic and safety legislation

Proficiency in AutoCAD

Ability to design traffic schemes

Tools

AutoCAD

GIS

Job description

Senior Engineer – Bridges & Structures Manager needed in Rotherham, £38.13ph to £45.70ph PAYE – Reference : 000A 2363 / 1

Seasoned Senior Engineer, ideally with strong leadership experience in transportation infrastructure.

You’ll ideally bring expert knowledge of road traffic, safety legislation, and technical standards (DMRB, CoP, CDM), alongside a proven track record in delivering complex projects on time and on budget.

The ideal candidate will have experience leading teams, preparing technical and council reports, managing budgets, and applying value-for-money principles, Proficiency in AutoCAD, GIS or similar software, the ability to design and implement traffic and highways schemes that meet diverse stakeholder needs.

• Manage the highway structure assets, including bridges and retaining wall, including both the development of maintenance programmes and bids for funding, and the control of activities that affect these assets including supervising the inspection programme.
• To lead and manage the delivery of schemes of all values from a few thousand to multi-million-pound improvements schemes within the Transportation Capital Investment Programme, including monitoring of associated scheme budgets and liaison across the Transportation Infrastructure Service.
• Representing the Service on working groups, forums and partnerships with which the group are or may be involved
• Collect and utilise technical data in order to prepare costs estimates, specifications, drawings, contract documents, bills of quantities and schedules of work.
• Provide consultancy advice and produce comprehensive technical reports for representatives and clients
• Developing briefs, issuing work for detailed design and liaising with other service units, outside bodies / agencies, and partners, to help foster co-operation and consensus and the provision of customer focussed services

This is a full time role on a temporary contract basis.