# Assistant Road Engineer

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Limerick, Co. Limerick
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

The Ireland Roads team at WSP is seeking an Assistant Engineer with relevant post-qualification experience in the design and project management of road schemes and active travel schemes. The successful candidate will lead and help grow a team undertaking concept, preliminary, and detailed designs for major national road schemes, including the N/M20 Cork to Limerick Project, Public Transport schemes, and active travel schemes for the National Transport Authority and Local Authorities.

Responsibilities:

- Manage projects to ensure coordination and compatibility of multi-disciplinary inputs on projects of varying scale, complexity, and value.

- Liaise with clients, develop strong trusted relationships, proactively manage their expectations, and comprehensively advise them.

- Undertake project technical lead and reviewer roles.

- Use technical ability and experience to develop staff.

- Prepare fee proposals and manage budgets for individual projects.

- Be responsible for the development and delivery of discrete and overall project solutions.

- Lead and manage other staff members in the delivery of design drawings, standard construction details, specifications, and bill of quantities, supporting the preparation of tender packages.

- Ensure compliance with Health & Safety and Environmental Legislation and in-house quality assurance standards/processes.

Requirements:

- Project management and technical delivery lead of Road or Public Transport/Active Travel schemes, with experience of Transport Infrastructure Ireland/National Transport Authority/Local Authority procedures essential.

- Experience of contract document preparation or contract administration/site supervision using Public Works Contracts.

- Chartered member of a relevant engineering technical institution.

- Experience or knowledge of alignment and drainage design software packages such as Civil3D/Open Roads and WinDes preferred, but not essential.

- Good communication, client management, and interpersonal skills are essential.

- Excellent IT skills including MS Projects.

- Thorough understanding and application of current design standards including Urban Street and/or Active Travel Design, Highway Geometric Design, and TII and NTA Project Management Guidelines.

- Strong stakeholder management experience.

## Skills

### Required
- Project management
- Technical delivery
- Road design
- Public Transport design
- Active Travel design
- Contract administration
- Client management
- MS Projects
- Civil3D
- Open Roads
- WinDes

### Nice to have
- Alignment design
- Drainage design
- Chartered engineer
- Stakeholder management

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