Senior Bridge Engineer

Working within a bridge design team within an established Rail business, the role involves but is not limited to the following:

• Responsible for managing a small team of up to 5 individuals
• Responsibility of delivering up to 10 projects concurrently to time and to budget
• Daily management of projects reporting to Project Manager
• Detailed Design and Design Management from inception to completion
• Supervising and managing assistant engineers and technicians
• Liaison with other members of project teams both internal and external
• Liaise with internal and external sub contractors
• Involvement with cost management, tenders, invoicing of projects
• Client presentations

Circa 75% of time will be spent on Design and will include planning and undertaking survey works on site.

Skills:

• The successful applicant should be able to:
• Work without supervision,
• Lead a team of engineers.
• To produce neat clear calculations in a structured format.
• Translate designs into engineering drawings, schedules and current specifications
• The ability to manage client interfaces on a day to day basis.
• Working knowledge of Railway Standards
• The candidate must be capable of taking a hands-on approach to design and technical coaching of junior staff.
• Excellent communication skills
• Sound IT skills

Qualifications:

• Chartered or near chartered status.
• Degree Qualified
• Professionally qualified Chartered Civil Engineer/completion of training scheme.

You should have:

• A proven track record of producing detailed designs including calculations and supervision of production of drawings.
• Experience within a consulting background. Sufficient engineering experience, with a large proportion of this within a rail environment
• Ideally personnel management and project management experience
• Good design experience. Steel, concrete and composite design essential. Solid foundations design experience preferred.
• The ambition to accept the challenge that this position offers.

To learn more about this and similar jobs call Paris Brooker on 020 8655 4934 during office hours or on 07766 460 611 at other times. If you have a copy of your Résumé/CV to hand click here to send an emailed application to Paris at p.brooker@calco.co.uk.

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