Principal Bridge Engineer

Description:

Location/s: Altrincham, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Sheffield, Southampton; UK

Recruiter contact: Ainsley Anstess

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About The Business Unit

We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. From preparing the business case and advising on related issues - such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation - to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it. Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.

Overview Of The Role

We are currently recruiting for a Principal Bridge Engineer to join our team to support a growing workload of exciting projects located in the UK and around the world. Our focus is on the use of our skills to deliver innovative and economic solutions for our clients. This has created an enviable reputation in the bridges discipline whether considering the design of new or the assessment of existing structures. As a Principal Bridge Engineer, you will be able to grow a career within our bridges business and you could be guiding the design, a section of the design or acting as a Technical Lead delivering technical excellence on projects.

As a Principal Bridge Engineer, your career has provided you with technical skills and structural knowledge which has given you the ability to translate your understanding of structural behaviours and analytical techniques into effective structural analyses and designs. Your experience in the analysis and design of complex bridges and associated structures means you’re familiar working with industry codes (including Eurocodes) and standards and you like to push boundaries where appropriate. With your interpersonal skills, you have the ability to guide teams in the analysis of structures and also communicate effectively in face-to-face meetings with clients and colleagues.

Candidate specification

Essential
 

• Degree qualified in Civil or Structural Engineering (Beng/Meng, MSc or equivalent)
• Chartered Engineer (ICE / IStructE)
• Practical design experience in the bridges industry with proven ability to collaborate with other team members both local and globally to deliver a nationally consistent client experience and quality
• Ability to deliver high quality design documentation including option appraisals, drawings, calculations, reports, specifications and construction documentation
• Demonstrable experience in bridge analysis, design and assessment including an ability to undertake and oversee the analysis of structures using standard industry software, such as, Sofistik, RM Bridge, MIDAS, LUSAS, SAM and Staad (or similar)
• Commercial and financial knowledge with the ability to plan and monitor project programmes, budgets and resources to ensure delivery to time and cost constraints
• Experience in and a commitment to effective management of Health, Safety and Welfare, Safety by Design
   

Desirable
 

• Preparation and review of technical approval documentation for highway and rail structures
• Experience of managing project teams and technical leadership
• Experience in identifying, winning and delivering projects including the preparation of fee proposals and tender submissions
• Experience of digital delivery tools and workflows, for example BIM, parametric design and automation
• Experience in the analysis and design of complex bridges and structures both in steel and concrete
• Experience and in depth understanding of structural behaviours with an ability to translate this into effective structural analysis
   

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.