# Bridge Engineer

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Norwich, Norfolk
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Bridge Engineer to join our established Norfolk Structures team in Norwich. As a Bridge Engineer, you will be involved in the inspection, assessment, design, maintenance, and improvement of a diverse portfolio of highway structures, working in partnership with Norfolk County Council.

Your role will include:

- Undertaking the design and assessment of highway structures in accordance with DMRB, Eurocodes, and other relevant standards.

- Delivering bridge assessments, feasibility studies, and option appraisals.

- Developing solutions for the maintenance, repair, refurbishment, and strengthening of existing highway structures.

- Preparing Approval in Principle documents, technical reports, specifications, drawings, calculations, and cost estimates.

- Undertaking and supporting General, Principal, and Special Inspections of bridges and other highway structures.

- Reviewing inspection and assessment information and helping to identify appropriate maintenance and intervention requirements.

- Taking responsibility for defined projects and packages of work, delivering these to the required quality, programme, and budget.

- Working closely with our Norfolk County Council client team and WSP colleagues to develop practical and proportionate engineering solutions.

- Coordinating with technicians, Assistant Engineers, and other disciplines in the delivery of projects.

- Providing appropriate technical support and guidance to less experienced members of the team.

- Attending site to undertake inspections, gather information, and support the delivery and supervision of construction and maintenance schemes.

- Ensuring work complies with health and safety, CDM 2015, quality assurance, and WSP technical review requirements.

- Supporting preparation of works information, tender documentation, and contract documentation where required.

- Developing good client relationships through effective communication and reliable project delivery.

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

- Degree, or equivalent qualification, in Civil or Structural Engineering.

- Relevant experience in bridge, highway structures, or structural engineering.

- Experience of the design and/or assessment of highway structures.

- A working knowledge of DMRB, Eurocodes, and relevant UK highway structures standards.

- Experience of preparing engineering calculations and technical reports.

- An understanding of bridge inspection, maintenance, and structural assessment.

- Good analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to develop practical engineering solutions.

- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary engineering environment.

- An understanding of CDM 2015 and the health and safety responsibilities associated with design and construction.

- Ability to organise and take responsibility for your own workload while working effectively as part of a wider team.

- A commitment to continued professional development and progression towards IEng or CEng status with ICE or another appropriate professional institution.

- Full UK driving licence, or willingness to obtain one.

Desirable skills include:

- Practical experience of General, Principal, and/or Special Inspections across bridges and highway structures.

- A good understanding of bridge assessment and relevant DMRB requirements.

- Experience developing repair, maintenance, and strengthening solutions for existing structures.

- Experience producing Approval in Principle (AIP) documentation.

- Knowledge of structures asset management systems, ideally AMX or similar.

- Competence with structural analysis/design software and AutoCAD or equivalent packages.

- Experience developing specifications, Works Information, and cost estimates for construction and maintenance schemes.

- Experience delivering work for local authority or highways clients.

- Experience supporting the delivery of construction and maintenance works on site.

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## Skills

### Required
- Civil Engineering
- Structural Engineering
- DMRB
- Eurocodes
- bridge inspection
- structural assessment
- project management

### Nice to have
- General Inspections
- Principal Inspections
- Special Inspections
- bridge assessment
- DMRB requirements
- repair solutions
- maintenance solutions
- strengthening solutions
- Approval in Principle documentation
- structures asset management systems
- AMX
- structural analysis/design software
- AutoCAD

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