Senior or Principal Bridge Engineer in Leeds

Energy Jobline ZR; Leeds; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing packages

Flexible working

Life-event supports

Quizzes

Job summary

Energy Jobline ZR is seeking an experienced Chartered Bridge Engineer to lead design and delivery of bridge and multidisciplinary projects in the UK and Ireland. You will work with our teams in the UK and Ireland to ensure high-quality outcomes from initial scoping through to detailed design and documentation.

You will apply your extensive bridges experience, maintain strong client relationships, and contribute to proposals and budgets.

Qualifications

• Chartered Engineer status (ICE/IStructE) or equivalent.
• Extensive post-graduate bridge experience in civil/structural engineering.
• Strong knowledge of bridges and related design standards.

Responsibilities

• Work on bridge and civil structures across materials/forms (superstructure, substructure, articulation).
• Participate in early project stages: scoping, surveys, optioneering and scheme design.
• Undertake and manage detailed design: modelling, calculations, drawings.
• Support business development: meetings, leads, bids/tenders.
• Prepare/check documents: specs, contracts, technical reports.
• Interface with clients, authorities, consultants, and D&B contractors.

Skills

Bridge engineering

Civil/structural design

Finite element analysis

Client liaison

Project budgeting

Tendering/proposals

Team leadership

Education

Chartered Engineer (ICE/IStructE)

Tools

FEA software (e.g., ANSYS)

Job description

Job Description

About the role As an experienced bridge engineer with chartered status, you will play an integral role in the design and delivery of our clients' bridge and multidisciplinary projects. You will be supported by their teams in the UK and Ireland.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Work with existing and new bridge and civil structures across a range of materials and forms, superstructure, substructure and articulation elements
• Participate in the early project stages, including scoping, specifying and interpreting surveys, inspection and investigative works, optioneering and scheme design
• Undertake and manage detailed design work, including modelling, calculations and overseeing drawing production
• Support business development, including meeting prospective clients, seeking leads and bidding / tendering
• Prepare and check documents, including specifications, contract documents and technical reports
• Act as: a signatory to Approval in Principle (AIP) reports; design and cat 3 check certificates; client representative; and designer's site representative
• Interface with clients from local and authorities, consultants, and design-build (D&B) contractors amongst others

Essential

• Hold the title of Chartered Engineer with the ICE, IStructE or equivalent
• A good level of post-graduate professional bridges experience in the civil or structural engineering client / consultancy / construction sector
• Excellent technical knowledge and engineering understanding of bridges
• Ability to manage and monitor the finances of assigned projects within designated budgets
• Experience of contributing to proposals and tenders (quality and commercial submissions)
• Demonstrable responsibility for entire bridge-related projects or significant proportions of such projects
• Experience interacting directly with clients and other disciplines and managing bridge engineers and technicians
• Experience undertaking and supporting contract documentation, checking and contract implementation activity on assigned projects
• Ability to communicate effectively with external parties, in person and in writing
• Good knowledge of structural analysis software including finite element analysis
• Excellent knowledge of and experience in the use of the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) and other standards and legislation in the field of UK bridge / structural design including Eurocodes
• Comfortable working in a busy work environment with tight deadlines
• Flexible, motivated and focused
• Excellent attention to detail
• Fluent or highly proficient in spoken and written English

Desirable

• Multidisciplinary consultancy or contracting experience from allied civil engineering disciplines, such as highways, structures, geotechnics, rail or water.

What to expect when you join

You will become part of a highly motivated team recognised for outstanding technical skill and passion for excellence. You will be involved in the delivery of an interesting and broad range of civil and structural engineering projects, predominantly within the roads and bridges sectors. You will have access to the exceptional training opportunities and an award-winning CPD programm. They are a friendly team with an active social committee.

• health and wellbeing packages
• flexible working
• life-event supports
• crazy golf
• escape rooms
• archery
• barbecues
• five-a-side football
• quizzes
• charity events

They offer health and wellbeing packages, flexible working and life-event supports, so whatever challenges life may bring, you can feel secure in the knowledge that you will be taken care of.

Why consider this opportunity

The company believes that it is the talent, energy and commitment their people bring to the business that make them who they are. Their work has been recognised for its design excellence, with projects winning many prestigious industry awards in the UK and Ireland