Principal Bridge Engineer Ftc

An excellent opportunity is available for a Principal Bridge Engineer to join our Structures team in Kier Design Solutions. This role, based in Birmingham, involves providing engineering services, including scheme investigation, site and structure inspections, data collection and analysis, feasibility studies, preliminary and detailed design, preparation of tender documents, and works/construction inspection and supervision for Highways Structures Maintenance and Major Projects Design across the country.
Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.
Location: Birmingham - remote working available, with travel to the office
Contract: Fixed Term Contract (12 months)
Salary: £48k - £52k + private healthcare + benefits
Responsibilities
The Principal Engineer will manage and be responsible for the delivery of technical outputs of projects or a project portfolio to the meet the client's brief within time and budget. To line manage more junior members of staff.
Your day to day will include:
Carrying out the checking and certifying of design deliverables (including drawings specifications, professional skill and care certificates, reports and contract documents)
Authorising where appropriate
Managing a team.
Who are we looking for?
This role of Principal Bridge Engineer is great for you to have:
Chartered / incorporated member of a relevant professional institution (MICE/MIStructE or equivalent)
In-depth experience in inspection, assessment, design and construction of highway structures to UK standards
Valid driving licence
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.
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 of 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.
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