Engineer - Bridges

Title:

Engineer - Bridges

Requisition

Amey are a leading provider of full life-cycle engineering, operations and decarbonisation solutions, for transport infrastructure and complex facilities.

Working for us, you’ll be delivering sustainable infrastructure solutions that enhance life and protect our shared future.

Our people are driven by a set of strong values, based on safety, insight and collaboration.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a permanent Structures Engineer to join our Consulting Structures Team in Belfast. With shared office space in our Belfast office and the ability to work remotely we invite applications from across Northern Ireland.

Our 130 strong Belfast Design Hub delivers a range of local, national and international projects for clients including Department for Infrastructure Roads, Translink, National Highways, Transport Scotland and Network Rail. Our multidisciplinary team encapsulates Highway Engineering, Bridge/Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, River & Coastal Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Traffic Engineering/Transport Planning, as well as being the BIM Centre of Excellence for Amey.

This unique ecosystem offers our clients a one-stop shop and offers our staff the opportunity to grow and develop in a knowledge-rich environment, with specialists who are eager to assist and mentor their development.

• £1bn A66 Northern Trans-Pennine (A66 NTP) project
• £40m Belfast Rapid Transit (BRT)
• £6m Lichfield Southern Bypass Railway Bridge
• £5m Translink Bridge Refurbishment Package 2
• £300m Motorway Improvements Bridges
• £50m Churchill Flyover PTSI and Deconstruction
• Lifecycle management for the DBFO2 Network in Northern Ireland (M1, A4 and A1).
• £30M A565 North Liverpool Key Corridor Dualling

As a Structures Engineer you will provide effective support and assistance to your Design Team Leader on a variety of Structures schemes whilst taking the lead on projects and mentoring junior engineers and technicians.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading a team, producing technically sound engineering solutions.
• Taking ownership and leading projects from start to finish, from preparing the quotation all the way to handover.
• Preparation and checking of designs, calculations, drawings and documentation as part of the production of scheme deliverables that satisfy the criteria of quality, cost and programme.
• Overseeing the actions of more junior members of staff undertaking similar tasks and taking responsibility for their actions.
• Contributing to the professional development of junior staff and acting as a Delegated Engineer.
• Liaising with Client and supplier representatives at peer level, attending progress meetings, and responding to queries.
• Managing a small, locally based single discipline technical team and taking responsibility for delivery of their workload.
• Contributing to the preparation of bids and general work winning function.
• Drive effective Health and Safety practices within the team.

• Developed experience and expertise within Structures field, probably gained in an Engineer role or equivalent.
• An ability to produce or oversee the production of technically sound engineering solutions, complying with all relevant technical standards and Client’s requirements.
• Takes ownership for the preparation and checking of deliverables and can check deliverables to a reasonable standard.
• Very good working knowledge of relevant software and similar analytical tools (e.g LUSAS, Autodesk Structural Bridge Design).
• Demonstrates good commercial awareness.
• Has a good understanding of CDM and risk assessment.
• Substantially experienced in the management and communication of hazards and risks on projects and…