Senior Engineer - Bridges and Civils – South East 1 (Epsom)
Are you ready to take up a vital role in shaping some of our exciting projects? How about joining our talented team, where everyone has a voice, and together we face out clients’ problems head-on. It’s a diverse and inclusive work environment where world-class talent knows no distinctions.
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The Role
We are currently seeking a Senior Engineer to join our Bridges and Civils team without our Transportation Practice, based in Epsom. The successful candidate will support our team working on a number of exciting, high-profile multi-disciplinary projects and frameworks in the local teams and the wider UK, including major highways improvement schemes and local authority schemes.
Using your people, technical and delivery skills, you will be responsible for delivering a variety of civil and structural design packages and projects for new highway schemes, maintenance and assessment works. Your duties will include 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 experience of delivery of single and multi-disciplinary projects within highway and local authority environments. You will ideally be familiar with working on projects at varying stages of development from feasibility to detailed design.
Qualifications
- BEng / MEng or MSc degree in civil engineering or equivalent.
- Chartered status and membership of the ICE or IStructE.
Expected Criteria
The role will be varied, requiring a balance of relevant industry experience, technical ability, communication and stakeholder management skills. Expected criteria are:
- Experience of working with key clients such as Highways England, Local Authorities and/or major Contractors.
- Ability to lead and support bids and tenders.
- Sufficient experience to undertake technical reviews of designs.
- 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.
- Excellent 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.
- Experience of work winning and developing Client relationships.
- Excellent spoken and written English.
Why work for Atkins?
Our Transportation teams are reinventing transport for a challenging yet exciting future. We are creating new ideas and smart solutions for cities, people and the environment. You will 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 will be in a privileged position, delivering what is right for governments and communities. You will be helping us to improve our leading environmental performance while enabling others to do the same.
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Meeting your needs
To help you get the most out of life in and outside of work, we offer employees “Total Reward”. It is a package that can be tailored to your changing lifestyle, career and personal needs. You will enjoy benefits such as partner discounts, leadership training, professional, accreditations and career planning for any stage of your career.
Making sure you are supported is important to us. So, if you identify as having a disability, tell us ahead of your interview. And let’s talk through any adjustments you might need.
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More about us
Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, is a leading global consultancy with over 80 years of design and engineering expertise. With us, you’ll be surrounded by the skills, knowledge and support to help you succeed. Together, we can deliver projects which have a positive, sustainable impact on the world.
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