Kier Group
Senior Bridge Engineer
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Senior Bridge Engineer - Penrith Design Solutions Structures
Location: Salford - Optimum House
Hours: 40 per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
About the Role
As a Senior Bridge Engineer, you'll play a vital role in producing and overseeing scheme designs, reports, and documentation for our structures team. This is an opportunity to use your expertise to deliver innovative bridge design, assessment, and maintenance solutions that meet client requirements while mentoring and developing our talented team.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Bridge Engineer, you'll be working within the Penrith Design Solutions Structures Team, supporting them in delivering high-quality bridge design and assessment solutions. Your day-to-day will include:
- Producing and overseeing bridge design, assessment, and maintenance solutions that meet client requirements within budget and timescale
- Developing designs in accordance with National design standards and the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges
- Preparing scheme documents, reports, and ensuring compliance with Quality Management Systems
- Ensuring all designs comply with relevant health and safety legislation, particularly CDM Regulations
- Mentoring and supporting the development of team members to grow their capabilities
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Requirements
This role of Senior Bridge Engineer is great for you if:
- You're working towards or have achieved Chartered Engineer status (CEng MICE, MIStructE or equivalent)
- You have 6+ years post-graduate experience in a similar role within Highways
- You have proven experience of bridge design standards and analysis
- You can demonstrate successful management and delivery of projects to programme and budget
- You enjoy collaborating with others and building effective relationships across teams and clients
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
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Rewards and Benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information on benefits here.
Diversity and Inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
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