Bridge Engineer - Manchester
To undertake all activities relating to feasibility studies, assessment, design and construction of bridges; and assist with the management of the bridges group.
Key responsibilities / main duties
- Assist in the preparation of and delivery of business plans
- Developing, resourcing, implementing and monitoring project programmes within time and budgetary constraints
- Ensuring design solutions conform to the client's requirements, statutory regulations and company standards
- Obtaining client feedback
- Maintaining consistently high technical standards
- Advising, counseling and motivating staff
- Establishing and developing working relationships with client representatives through targeted visits and particularly through projects
- Preparing technical and financial proposals that meet the client requirements in a cost effective manner
- Identifying new work opportunities and securing extensions to projects either through direct spin off or seeking other opportunities
- Preparing expressions of interest, tenders and presentations to secure new work
- Establish and develop working relationships with external consultants, suppliers and other Mouchel Parkman divisions, monitoring performance to programme, budget and technical standards
- Providing effective technical support to project staff and other departments in the company
- Keeping the departmental manager briefed with regard to achieving performance in key result areas
- Highlighting problems that adversely affect client perception as soon as they become apparent.
- Ensuring application of appropriate Health and Safety, quality and environmental procedures.
- Chartered status
- Significant post-graduate experience of bridge design and/or assessment
- Practical experience of design and build contracts
- Experience in bridge design to BS5400
- Working knowledge of DMRB's and SHW's
- Experience of integral bridges
- Good team working and communication skills
- Able to work with minimum supervision
- Able to work under pressure
- Good numerical skills
Requirements
Essential requirements of the role are as follows:
Ideally you will have working knowledge of Highways Agency procedures along with working knowledge of Superstress and/or Lusas and practical experience of finite elements.
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