Senior Bridges Engineer

Overview

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Senior Bridges Engineer

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.

The Opportunity

We have a permanent Senior Structural Engineer/Senior Bridges Engineer role to join our Amey Consulting team for our Scotland account. We have design hubs in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Motherwell, Perth, and Aberdeen with additional office space in Dumfries, Ayr, Dundee, Nairn and Huntly.

Amey manages both the Southwest and Northeast Trunk Road Network Management contracts, with the Southwest awarded in 2020 and the Northeast in 2022. These are 8-year contracts, extendable up to 12 years. In addition to these long-term contracts, we also have a diverse portfolio of major roads, bridges and transportation and civil design projects with Transport Scotland, Local Authorities, and established contractors across the country.

These long-term contracts provide opportunities for technical, engineering, and professional design staff to be involved in some of the most exciting and challenging engineering projects in Scotland’s arterial road network.

Recent / Ongoing Projects Include

• £1.2bn Scotland North East and South West Trunk Road management
• £240m Severn Bridges management
• £30m ADEPT Live Labs 2 Decarbonisation programme
• £300m Motorway DBFO
• £3M Banff Bridge scour protection design
• £20M Lagan Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge
• £120m Clyde Waterfront & Renfrew Riverside
• £80m Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland
• £10m Forth Road Bridge Truss End Links Replacement

As a Senior Structures/Bridges 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 to handover.
• Preparation and checking of designs, calculations, drawings and documentation as part of the production of scheme deliverables that satisfy quality, cost, and programme criteria.
• Overseeing the actions of more junior 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 the delivery of their workload.
• Contributing to the preparation of bids and the general work-winning function.
• Drive effective Health and Safety practices within the team.

• Developed experience and expertise within the Structures field, likely gained in an Engineer role or equivalent.
• Ability to produce or oversee the production of technically sound engineering solutions, complying with relevant technical standards and client requirements.
• Ownership for the preparation and checking of deliverables and ability to verify deliverables to a reasonable standard.
• Very good working knowledge of relevant software and analytical tools (e.g. LUSAS, Autodesk Structural Bridge Design).
• Good commercial awareness and understanding of CDM and risk assessment.
• Experience in identifying and mitigating hazards and risks on projects and ensuring appropriate mitigation and transfer.
• Understanding of interface management and ensuring deliverables align with other disciplines.
• Incorporated or Chartered status with the ICE or IStruct
  
  E (or an equivalent professional licence) is desirable and may be essential on particular contracts.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in an appropriate subject or demonstrable equivalent further learning.

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