Senior/Principal Bridge Engineer

Job Title: Senior/Principal Bridge Engineer
Location: Otley, North Leeds.
Salary: £43,000 - £55,000

A large consultancy that are rapidly growing in the UK Market are looking to recruit a Senior or Principal Bridge Engineer to join their team in Otley. They work solely on Design & Build schemes, giving you the full cycle from preliminary and feasibility design to build on a variety of Bridge Structures. Recent projects include work on Humber Bridge, The Great Yarmouth Third River Crossing and the Northern Spire Bridge in Scotland.

As a Senior or Principal Engineer within the Bridge team you will be responsible for technical leadership and delivery to these D&B schemes. You will be still heavily involved in the detailed design, the surveying and inspections of structures and liaising directly with the clients.

This role is for a Chartered Engineer with at least 7 years' experience, working on similar schemes to above. If you aren't chartered but fast approaching and looking for a consultancy to achieve Chartership with, then there may still be opportunities at this consultancy for you as they are also looking to hire a Bridge Engineer.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Working with both existing and new bridges and civil structures across a range of materials and forms, superstructure, substructure and articulation elements
• Involvement at 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
• Reviewing the work of others: cat 3 checking, as a client representative and designer's site representative
• Interfacing with clients from local and national authorities, consultants, and D&B contractors amongst others
• Supporting graduate engineers as they progress towards chartership

Job Requirements

• Minimum seven years' (senior engineer) / seven years' (principal engineer) professional experience
• Chartered engineer with the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) or equivalent
• Detailed knowledge and experience in the use of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) and other standards and legislation

If interested please contact Taylor Smith at Calibre Search Manchester for more information,

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