Senior and Principal Bridge Engineers
Roughan & O’Donovan (ROD) is looking for senior and principal bridge engineers to provide specialist and technically demanding input to bridge and multidisciplinary civil engineering projects.
Job type: Permanent
Location: Otley, Leeds, UK
Salary: £43,000 to £55,000+ depending on experience
The opportunities for you
Work with a dynamic, talented team on an exciting range of bridgeworks projects
Develop your skills to the highest industry standards
Work closely with new and existing clients
Help grow our business by supporting our bid team
Advance your career under the guidance of ROD’s senior management in Otley
Role responsibilities
Work with both existing and new bridges and civil structures across a range of materials and forms, superstructure, substructure and articulation elements
Get involved at the early project stages: scoping, specifying and interpreting surveys, inspection and investigative works, optioneering, scheme design
Detailed design: modelling, calculations, overseeing drawing production
Document preparation, including authoring technical reports, such as AIPs, specifications and contract documents
Review the work of others: cat 3 checking, as a client representative and designer’s site representative
Interface with clients from local and national authorities, consultants, and D&B contractors amongst others
Support the development of our graduate engineers
Essential
Minimum master’s honours degree in civil/structural engineering (MEng, MSc) or equivalent
Minimum seven years’ (senior engineer) / 10 years’ (principal engineer) professional experience
Chartered engineer with the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) or equivalent
Detailed knowledge of and experience in the use of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) and other standards and legislation
Fluent/highly proficient in spoken and written English
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Good organisational skills
A strong work ethic
Desirable
Ability to undertake and/or manage structural analysis modelling, such as grillages and finite element
Multidisciplinary consultancy or contracting experience from allied civil engineering disciplines, such as highways, structural, geotechnics, rail or water
A willingness and aptitude for understanding and contributing to colleagues’ work in areas beyond transportation infrastructure projects
Interest in developing a business, liaising directly with clients and working on bids and tenders
About Roughan & O'Donovan
Roughan & O’Donovan (ROD) was founded in 1974. A leading civil, structural and environmental consultancy, we currently employ over 200 staff, of 20 nationalities, in our UK and Ireland offices. We are technically focused engineering consultancy, with notable specialisms in cable-supported structures, moveable bridges, integral precast beam and steel-composite bridges.
We opened our UK office in Otley in 2019 to expand our reach of world-class design and planning work across the region. ROD Managing Director, Jim Thorpe, is based in Otley, where he leads 18 technical staff, working across bridges, highways, geotechnics, drainage / flooding and hydrogeology, and several administrative and business development personnel.
Our UK bridge team’s primary focus is existing structures, and their work involves proving or seeking for additional capacity and/or design life by targeted inspection and investigative work, assessment, refurbishment and strengthening designs. They also work on new build-design projects across the UK and Ireland.
Current and recent bridge projects include:
Dublin moveable bridges – design development of 2 No. proposed high-profile structures
Balanced cantilever segmental post-tensioned bridge cat 3 check
To apply
Address your cover letter to Human Resources
Apply by clicking the link: https://shorturl.at/ikqU2
Roughan & O’Donovan is an equal opportunity employer.
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