# Senior Engineer/Principal Engineer - Bridges

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As a Senior/Principal Engineer, you will be pivotal in driving the delivery of civil and bridge engineering projects. You will use your knowledge and skills to deliver the right quality to time and budget. You will also mentor and support junior team members.

Responsibilities include:

- Bridge design, both in the UK and overseas

- Bridge management

- Bridge strengthening and repair, inspections and assessments

- General civil and structural engineering support to other teams

- Feasibility studies and options appraisals

- Preparation of documents, reports and health and safety risk assessments, scheme designs and drawings, scheme feasibility studies and outline cost estimates

- Preparation of fee estimates

- Supervision of junior members of the team and CAD technicians

Requirements:

- Chartered Civil or Structural Engineer

- Practical knowledge and experience of bridge design, maintenance and assessment

- Practical knowledge and experience of project management of bridge projects

- Proven knowledge in design, maintenance and supervision of structures related projects

- Proven working knowledge of the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) and Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works (MCDHW)

- Understanding and experience of use of Eurocodes and their application to bridge design

- Experience of design in or assessment of steel, reinforced and prestressed concrete bridge structures

- Experience of grillage, space frame and finite element analysis software packages such as LUSAS, Superstress and SAM

- Good communication, client handling and interpersonal skills

## Skills

### Required
- bridge design
- bridge management
- civil engineering
- structural engineering
- project management
- Eurocodes
- LUSAS
- Superstress
- SAM

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