# Senior/Principal Engineer - Bridges

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Belfast, County Antrim
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As a Senior/Principal Engineer, you will play a key role in delivering civil and bridge engineering projects, mentoring junior team members, and ensuring high-quality results on time and within budget.

Responsibilities include:

- Bridge design for UK and overseas projects

- Bridge management

- Bridge strengthening and repair, inspections, and assessments

- General civil and structural engineering support

- 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

- Fee estimates

- Supervision of junior team members and CAD technicians

The ideal candidate will be a Chartered Civil or Structural Engineer with experience in bridge design, maintenance, and assessment, as well as project management. Key skills and experience include:

- Practical knowledge of bridge design, maintenance, and assessment

- Project management experience for bridge projects

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

- Experience with Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) and Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works (MCDHW)

- Understanding and experience with Eurocodes and their application to bridge design

- Experience with steel, reinforced, and prestressed concrete bridge structures

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

- Strong communication, client handling, and interpersonal skills

The Civil and Bridge Engineering team in the Scotland, Ireland & North East Region offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for growth and development. Based in WSP's Belfast city centre office, the team works on a variety of projects in the rail and highways sectors for clients including Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure (DfI) Roads, Transport Scotland, National Highways, and Local Authorities in the UK.

## Skills

### Required
- bridge design
- bridge management
- bridge strengthening
- civil engineering
- structural engineering
- project management
- Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB)
- Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works (MCDHW)
- Eurocodes
- steel bridge structures
- reinforced concrete bridge structures
- prestressed concrete bridge structures
- grillage analysis
- space frame analysis
- finite element analysis
- LUSAS
- Superstress
- SAM

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