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South East Scotland Bridges Manager
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South East Scotland Bridges Manager
South East Scotland Bridges Manager
Jacobs –ytetalent.co.uk/jacobs/jobs/888935/south-east-scotland-bridges-manager
The role is strictly full-time and based across South Queensferry, Stepps, and Bonnyrigg (primarily in the south-east of Scotland) with occasional remote work.
About the Role
At Jacobs, we solve the world’s most critical challenges for cities, resilient environments, mission-critical infrastructure, scientific progress, and advanced manufacturing. You’ll transform abstract ideas into real-world change that shapes the future—safely, sustainably, and impactfully.
Every day, over 850 bridges in South East Scotland ensure safe and efficient travel for millions. As our South East Scotland Bridges Manager, you’ll lead the technical and commercial strategy that keeps these vital assets safe, resilient, and future-proof—delivering major maintenance, strengthening, refurbishment, and renewal programmes worth millions in investment.
This leadership position is highly visible and influential, giving you the responsibility to:
- Drive planetary impact through strategic infrastructure decisions
- Shape multi-million-pound maintenance programmes
- Lead multidisciplinary teams from investigation to handover
- Protect communities, enhance transport reliability, and leave a legacy for future generations
By ensuring Scotland’s bridges remain robust, secure, and adaptable, your work will directly support daily journeys and economic activity.
About This Opportunity
The South East Bridges Team—headquartered across South Queensferry, Stepps, and Bonnyrigg—materialises critical bridge infrastructure today while solving future challenges. The role blends technical expertise, commercial acumen, and people leadership, working at the heart of Scotland’s trunk road network.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
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Engineering & Project Execution:
- Lead highly skilled teams (21+ engineers, technicians, and inspectors) delivering bridge maintenance, assessment, and rehabilitation projects
- Direct the design, procurement, and construction management of strengthening schemes, refurbishments, and bearing replacement works
- Ensure technical excellence through rigorous design approvals, certification, and compliance with vital standards (HSE, Eurocodes, Bridge Management Systems)
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Stakeholder & Commercial Leadership:
- Evaluate tenders, award and manage contractor agreements, and mitigate risks in complex, high-value programmes
- Collaborate closely with Transport Scotland, regulatory bodies, and partners to minimise network disruption and maximise value for money
- Act as Principal Designer (via Jacobs’ consultants) or, if required, Principal Contractor for major projects
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Strategic Delivery:
- Oversee a record bridge maintenance investment initiative, balancing cost, quality, safety, and maximum lifespan extension
- Align corporate investment strategy with Transport Scotland’s priorities, driving compliance, innovation, and resiliency across assets
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This is a unique blend of technical depth and strategic influence, where your expertise shapes the very infrastructure that keeps Scotland connected.
What’s In It For You?
This is a career-defining opportunity for a nationally recognised bridge leader who thrives as both an engineer and a leadership strategist.
Why It Matters:
- Shape and deliver Scotland’s largest bridge maintenance programme
- Lead and develop a talented team of 20+ skilled professionals
- Enjoy broad, flexible autonomy in a role that drives multi-million-pound investments
- Cultivate long-term relationships with Transport Scotland and industry stakeholders
- Gain experential leadership in engineering, project delivery, governance, and people development
Beyond the Role:
- A work culture rooted in safety, inclusion, belonging, and continuous improvement
- Flexibility & well-being support, align extra-ordinary challenges with work-life harmonisation
- Professional growth—work with global Jacobs teams on pioneering projects
- A meaning-making career built on communities’ reliance on transport infrastructure
If you’re driven by impact, complexity, responsibility, and seek a frontline leadership role, this is where you’ll thrive.
Requirements
To excel in this pivotal role, we seek a proven leader with uncompromising standards and a track record in highway bridge maintenance and asset management.
Core Qualifications:
✅ Educated to degree level or equivalent in Civil or Structural Engineering ✅ 10+ years’ proven experience in bridge asset management, including:
- Confident management of bridge assessment reports, strengthening designs, and refurbishments
- Expertise in diagnostic surveys, non-destructive testing, and structural assessments
- Active implementation of maintenance, inspection, and longevity strategies
❌ *"I have mixed experience—my portfolio includes major along with minor schemes" excludes you ✅ Professional qualifications required:
- Member of an appropriate body (MICE, MIStructE or CGWP) with trailblazing commitment to continuous instruction/recognition
- Full UK driving licence
❌ "I'm getting closer to CEng" is not sufficient ✅ Confidence in credentialed project management—your experience:
- Should include handling 3–5 simultaneous bridge schemes
- Involving stakeholder management, tender evaluation, finance negotiating, and contractual agreements
Note: Document optional supporting materials (e.g., portfolio work, case studies) to showcase strategic vision or in-depth bridge knowledge in your application.
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What We Value
Key Characteristics (You’ll Want to Align With):
✔ Driven by purpose—local economy, community safety, and continuity matter ✔ ** stärkmon** leadership through people and system development ✔ Collaborative whilst aligned to clear outcomes—you’re building on relationships and results ✔ Within tradition and innovation—we advance iconic engineering solutions for tomorrow
Reporting & Office Locations
Reporting to: Regional Mananger, Transport and Infrastructure - Lauder (UK) Office locations: South Queensferry, Stepps, and Bonnyrigg
This role requires travel to major bridge sites across south-central Scotland with remote working flexibility. Alternate hybrid arrangements are possible within certain protocols.
**About ** Jacobs ****
Jacobs builds a better quality of life around the world, undertaking projects that drive human and environmental progress. Our success is rooted in three cross-pillars: professional nurturing, global connectivity, and ethical ambition.
Our Values in Action:
- Safety: A zero-harm culture rooted in leadership accountability and team engagement
- Integrity & Candour: Honest, transparent, and action-oriented collaboration
- Impact & Human Flourishing: Systems that extending life, justice, and humanity
Perhaps the best separator—our people:
In designer workspaces delivered with choice, Jacobs provides:
- Diverse, skilled communities (proudly recognizing individual attributes and advocacies)
- An active health programme—Holistic mental, physical, and financial well-being
- Learning without bounds through leadership training, safety education, and skills matching
- A global community emphasis—Jacobs Employee Networks allow you to connect across tectonic defences, marine drainage, industrial systems, or nuclear safety
With our electric mission and dynamic projects spanning continents, let Jacobs be where you realize the next peak of your engineering legacy.
Disability Confident Employer ⌄ Flexible Working Support
Jacobs welcomes applications from disabled persons and those needing baixile adjustments. Consider us your answers to practical policies supporting individual lived experience flexibility.
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