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Job title

Bridge Engineer

Ref no. BHN546051
Location Birmingham, England
Start date ASAP
Job type Permanent
Job status Closed

Job summary

Our have an exciting opportunity for Engineers to join their teams based in the Midlands. This role will involve hybrid working, and the office locations would be Birmingham or Nottingham.

Key skills required for this role

bridge design structures structural engineer

Important

Bridge / highway structures design / asset management / maintenance

Job description

As part of this role, the successful candidate will undertake, identify asset needs, and develop treatment options and undertake preliminary design work, or undertake structural reviews and assessment works for the asset class in scope, while assuring adherence to defined asset policies and standards.


The role may be required to visit sites to undertake, or oversee, inspections; holding a full driving license is therefore highly desirable for this position.


What you'll be leading on

  • Ensuring the health and safety needs and wellbeing of customers and employees are fully considered and accounted for throughout the planning and delivery of each service activity.
  • The identification and evaluation of asset data and needs to develop solutions, in line with agreed methodologies and prioritisation criteria.
  • Deliver the technical competencies required of a suitably experienced Civil Engineer by:
  • Developing early solutions for improvements and/or renewals, including compiling relevant documents, evidence, and option reports for value management, considering new techniques, materials, buildability, and costs.


and/or

  • Undertaking structural reviews in accordance with CS 451 and structural assessments in accordance with DMRB standards.
  • Identify, prepare survey briefs, and support delivery of structures survey works that support the improvement, assessments and/or renewal of structures assets.
  • Monitor the delivery of agreed assessment work liaising with technical partners; or the delivery of treatment options, liaising with the relevant delivery teams to aid successful delivery of schemes.
  • Ensure that asset data and condition information is captured and maintained in the relevant databases, in line with agreed standards and timescales.
  • Develop the technical briefs provided to selected design consultants for assessment and renewals work.
  • Assist with developing the regions asset led forward programme and initial scheme development delivers customer centric designs and technical specifications.


To be Successful

  • Degree or HND in relevant discipline and appropriate experience, or equivalent
  • Working towards Membership of Professional body
  • Experience in structures renewals work design, or structural assessment.
  • Good stakeholder management and communication skills with strong customer focus
  • Knowledge of National Highways standards (DMRB, MCHW and Eurocodes) standards and their application on the highways network
  • Knowledge of CDM 2015
  • Understanding of the Value Management process or cost benefit analysis tools (desirable)
  • Experience working within allocated budgets including the creation of a budget for scheme development (desirable)
  • and experience in AutoCAD (desirable)

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