Chartered 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.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a permanent Senior Bridges Engineer/Structures Engineer to join our Amey Consulting team in Stafford. We welcome all applications from the Midlands, Manchester and also from Engineers who can commute to this region on a hybrid basis.

Amey delivers bridge engineering consultancy services to infrastructure clients throughout the UK and overseas. Our experienced engineering teams support the whole asset life cycle through design, construction, inspection, assessment and maintenance. We take pride in the excellent delivery for our clients, with our award-winning contracts being recognised throughout the industry.

This role is to lead highway structures projects, working within a multidisciplinary consultancy and interfacing with stakeholders, to develop sustainable engineering solutions to budget and programme aligned with client expectations.

This is an opportunity to develop your career within a highly experienced bridge engineering team. Ideal for someone looking to take the next step into a Senior, Lead Senior or Principal Bridge Engineer position, based on previous experiences.

Since 2014, our Infrastructure Plus contract with Staffordshire County Council has maintained Staffordshire’s highway asset comprising 6.200km of road, with an appropriate annual budget of £80 million.

The structures team maintains critical infrastructure valued at £2 billion, comprising over 1,200 bridges, dams and other specialist structures. Schemes delivered range from multimillion-pound bypasses such as Stafford Western Access Route, new bridge design, structures replacement, maintenance and assessment. We also work proactively with other infrastructure owners and developers to optimise road space and ensure appropriate technical solutions are implemented.

As a Senior Structures Engineer/ Senior 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 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…