Principal Bridge Design Engineer - Sandyford, Dublin
Office/Project Location: Sandyford, Dublin
Employment Type: Permanent
Work Location: Office Based / Hybrid
Pay: Competitive
Experience: 12+ years
Visa: EU passport or Stamp 4 visa required
Our client is an award-winning international engineering consultancy, currently undergoing rapid growth.
Provide specialist and technically demanding input to bridge and multidisciplinary civil engineering projects
Work with a dynamic, talented team on an exciting range of bridgeworks projects
Develop your skills to the highest industry standards
Work closely with new and existing clients
Help grow our business by supporting our bid team
Advance your career under the guidance of our senior management team
Work with both existing and new bridges and civil structures across a range of materials and forms, superstructure, substructure and articulation elements
Get involved at the early project stages: scoping, specifying and interpreting surveys, inspection and investigative works, optioneering, scheme design
Detailed design: modelling, calculations, overseeing drawing production
Document preparation, including authoring technical reports, such as AIPs, specifications and contract documents
Review the work of others: cat 3 checking, as a client representative and designer’s site representative
Interface with clients from local and national authorities, consultants, and D&B contractors amongst others
Support the development of our junior staff towards gaining professional qualifications
Requirements
A degree in civil/structural engineering to master’s level or equivalent. For example, in the Republic of Ireland, a five-year undergraduate degree (Level 9 to the Irish National Framework of Qualifications or Level 8 for those qualified before 2013)
Minimum 10-15 years’ professional experience
Chartered Engineer with Engineers Ireland, the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) or equivalent
Ability to work within a dynamic, multidisciplinary team
Strong technical knowledge and engineering skills/knowledge of bridge engineering software (analysis and design)
Flexible, motivated and focused
Excellent attention to detail
Ability to produce quality design outputs
Good organisational skills
A strong work ethic
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Fluent/highly proficient in spoken and written English
Desirable
Detailed knowledge of and experience in the use of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) and other standards and legislation including Eurocodes in the field of bridge/structural design.
Multidisciplinary consultancy or contracting experience from allied civil engineering disciplines, such as highways, structural, geotechnics, rail or water
A willingness and aptitude for understanding and contributing to colleagues’ work in areas beyond transportation infrastructure projects
Interest in developing a business, liaising directly with clients and working on bids and tenders
Package
Competitive Salary based experience, negotiable for the right candidates.
Excellent Company Benefits