Principal Engineer - Bridges and Civils

Principal Engineer

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Role

We are currently seeking a Principal Engineer to join our Bridges and Civils team in Swansea within our Transportation Practice. The successful candidate will support our team in Wales working on a number of exciting, high-profile projects and frameworks. This includes the A465 Sections 5 and 6 upgrades, supporting the South Wales Trunk Road Agent (SWTRA) and working alongside a number of local authorities throughout Wales. The team also support wider projects through the UK, currently working on Roads Investment Programmes for Highways England, High Speed 2 and East West Rail.

Using your technical and delivery skills, you will be responsible for delivering a variety of structural and bridge design packages for new highways schemes, maintenance and assessment works. Your duties will include supporting the management of both individual design packages and entire projects, supporting project resourcing and financial control to ensure our schemes are delivered profitably, to programme, and in accordance with Atkins’ quality assurance systems. 

You will have a background in civil engineering design, and an interest in the delivery of multi-disciplinary projects within highway and local authority environments. You’ll be familiar with working in large, geographically dispersed multidisciplinary design teams on projects at varying stages of development from feasibility through to detailed design.

Responsibilities

The role will be varied, requiring a balance of relevant industry experience, technical ability, people and stakeholder management and project management skills. Expected criteria are:

• Proven knowledge in design, maintenance and supervision of structures related projects together with a track record of innovation in design and management of highway structures. 
• Practical knowledge and experience of bridge design, maintenance and assessment.
• Use analytical skills to derive potential solutions to engineering problems and engineering judgement to appraise different options and recommend the most suitable option
• Ability to oversee the production of and review high quality design documentation including sketches, drawings, calculations, reports and specifications
• Experience of grillage, space frame and finite element analysis software packages such as LUSAS, MIDAS, Super stress and Autodesk Structural Bridge Design
• Experience of working with key clients such as SWTRA, Local Authorities, Highways England and major Contractors.
• Good understanding of relevant design standards (e.g. DMRB, TSRGD, MCHW, Eurocodes and those of Highways England and Manual for Streets).
• Ability to develop and agree scopes and manage the internal technical supply chain, including budgets, programme and quality of deliverables, delivering within set time frame.
• Good project management skills, commercial awareness, financial control and ability to deliver across a range of contract types. This will include an ability to manage stakeholders, e.g. specialist suppliers, independent checkers and local authorities.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to converse with a wide range of Clients and colleagues across a number of engineering disciplines.
• Ability to support bids and tenders.
• Experience of work winning and developing Client relationships.
• Excellent spoken and written English.

We recognize that whilst, your experience might not fit these criteria exactly, you could still be a valuable addition to our team. If you have a desire to develop within Transportation Civils and Structures, we look forward to making the most of your transferrable skills and would welcome hearing from you.

Qualifications

• BEng / MEng or MSc degree in civil engineering or equivalent.
• Chartered status and membership of the ICE or IStructE.

Why work for Atkins?

Our Transportation teams are reinventing transport for a challenging yet exciting future. We're creating new ideas and smart solutions for cities, people and the environment. You'll be working alongside some of the top people in our industry, solving challenges that bring together traditional engineering and new technologies. As part of our organisation, you'll be in a privileged position, delivering what's right for governments and communities. You'll be helping us to improve our leading environmental performance while enabling others to do the same.

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