Senior Bridge Engineer

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Your impact

In your role as a Senior Bridge Engineer your technical skills in transport structures will be of key importance. You will exercise sound judgement and initiative while undertaking both your project responsibilities and design tasks.
For you to be successful, it will be necessary for you to achieve a satisfactory level in all of the areas described below. It would be expected that your immediate focus would be in the areas of technical leadership and high-quality project delivery across a range of infrastructure projects from small structural design tasks through to major bridge, highway and rail projects.

About The Opportunity

• Takes a leadership role in the promotion of a culture of safety and quality within the Section
• Contribute to the profile of Jacobs as a technical leader through the writing of technical presentation where applicable
• Provide input in strategic decisions within the section such as selection of suitable resources for projects, bid strategy and go/no go assessments, and software selection.
• Progress business development opportunities within existing contracts.
• Represent self and company's capabilities in new business opportunities
• Contribute capability statements and proposals
• Progress business opportunities specifically for bridge work to help maintain work stream independent of major transport infrastructure projects
• Develop contacts and foster client relationships outside of current clients
• Represent skills to internal clients (other groups) to encourage opportunities for cross-selling
• Provide preliminary and concept designs for road and rail bridges as well as other civil structures
• Undertake detailed designs for road and rail bridges and prepare calculation reports of designs
• Direct and review work of others for accuracy, quality, safety and cost effectiveness
• Attend project meetings; client meetings
• Ensure consistency of design with the tender, brief and relevant codes and standards, and manage departures
• Mentor engineering staff on technical aspects of design and promote leading edge design techniques.
• Assist with and monitor financial performance within Projects and effectively liaise with internal Jacobs teams to deliver solutions
• Build relationships across Jacobs' organizational structure, both locally and functionally across regions

As Senior Bridge Engineer, be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) to whom team members can relate questions and seek advice

• Support the Section Leader in recruitment activities
• Balance workload to meet expectations – collaborate with Section Leader and Design / Project Managers

Here's what you'll need

• A bachelor's degree in civil and/ or structural engineering with Professional Engineering status or near to attaining PE status.
• With a minimum 8 to 10 years 'relevant experience in bridges and/or heavy civil structure design
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in the management of work in accordance with current health & safety legislations, regulations, and applicable codes of practice and knowledge of all relevant technical standards, legislation and best practices in area of competence
• Experience within a consulting environment delivering civil/structural projects primarily in the bridges sector with a proven ability in the delivery of technically challenging workloads.
• Must be able to articulate a clear direction and have good social, networking and presentation skills.
• Excellent communication skills to work effectively within our team and will have direct contact with estimators, design managers, junior engineers/team members and staff in our clients' organization.

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