Arcadis
Principal Engineer - Civils and Structures
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Role Description
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
We are seeking a Principal Civil / Structural Engineer to join our growing rail design teams in London and Bristol. You will lead the delivery of complex rail infrastructure projects, including bridge replacement, station and depot schemes, working as part of multidisciplinary teams across the business.
With a strong reputation for delivering some of the UK's most prestigious infrastructure projects, including Washwood Heath Depot for HS2, MetroWest Phase 1b and CP7 Framework projects, we offer the opportunity to work on high-profile rail programmes while also contributing across housing and development, local authority, building structures and education sectors.
Role Accountabilities
- Lead the delivery of civil and structural engineering design projects.
- Provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary project teams.
- Undertake and oversee interdisciplinary design reviews and verification activities.
- Manage the production and quality assurance of engineering analysis and design deliverables.
- Coordinate survey requirements and their integration into project delivery.
- Identify and manage design risks throughout the project lifecycle.
- Support Project Directors and Project Managers in the successful delivery of projects.
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Qualifications & Experience
- Chartered Engineer status with ICE or IStructE.
- Master's degree in Civil Engineering or a related discipline.
- Significant civil and/or structural design experience on infrastructure projects.
- Experience leading the delivery of complex engineering projects.
- Strong experience using industry-standard analysis and design software and applying engineering judgement to technical challenges.
- Experience managing design risks and undertaking design assurance activities.
- Rail sector experience, including stations, depots, bridges or other rail infrastructure projects, would be advantageous.
- CRE experience, or a desire to work towards CRE competency, would be beneficial. Support and mentoring will be provided.
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If you're looking to take a leading role on some of the UK's most challenging rail infrastructure projects, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and help shape the future of sustainable infrastructure.
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Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
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