# Principal Road Engineer

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

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Road Engineer to join our Ireland Roads team, based in either our Dublin, Limerick, or Naas offices.

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.

Key responsibilities include:

- Managing projects to ensure coordination and compatibility of multi-disciplinary inputs

- Liaising with clients, developing strong trusted relationships, and proactively managing their expectations

- Undertaking project technical lead and reviewer roles

- Using technical ability and experience to develop staff

- Preparing fee proposals and managing budgets for individual projects

- Leading and managing other staff members in the delivery of design drawings, standard construction details, specifications, and bill of quantities

- Ensuring 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

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

- Chartered membership of a relevant engineering technical institution

- Experience or knowledge of alignment and drainage design software packages such as Civil3D/Open Roads and WinDes

- Good communication, client management, and interpersonal skills

- 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
- Civil3D
- Open Roads
- WinDes
- MS Projects
- Transport Infrastructure Ireland
- National Transport Authority
- Local Authority procedures
- Public Works Contracts
- engineering technical institution

### Nice to have
- alignment design
- drainage design
- Highway Geometric Design
- Urban Street Design
- Active Travel Design

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