Job type: Permanent

Location: Sandyford, D.18, Woodford, D. 17 or Cork City

Salary: Competitive

About the role

You will join a talented bridge team with a reputation for delivering complex bridge asset management projects across Ireland and the UK.

You will provide specialist, technically demanding input to bridge and multidisciplinary civil engineering projects. The role will provide you with the opportunity to deepen your technical knowledge whilst advancing your professional development under the guidance of experienced mentors.

From award-winning cable-stayed bridges to small footbridges and culverts, our bridge team’s portfolio of infrastructural asset management is wide ranging. Our services cover the entire bridge cycle from initial planning, preliminary and detailed design through to inspection, maintenance and rehabilitation.

Current and recent projects include:

Responsibilities

  • Undertake bridge and structural inspections
  • Undertake structural analysis, capacity assessment and forensic investigations into deterioration of infrastructural networks 
  • Input - from early project stages - to scopes, specifications and interpretations of surveys, inspection and investigative works, optioneering and scheme design
  • Undertake preliminary and detailed design of bridge refurbishment schemes
  • Support the delivery of projects
  • Work with bridges and civil structures across a range of materials and forms
  • Assist in the production of drawings
  • Contribute to documents, including authoring technical reports, such as AIPs, specifications and contract documents
  • Support graduate engineers as they progress towards chartership 

Essential

  • Honours degree in civil/structural engineering (Level 8 in the National Framework of Qualifications or equivalent)
  • Five to seven years' relevant post-qualification experience in bridge inspection, design or construction including a minimum of one year’s experience of undertaking bridge structural inspections
  • Chartered status with a recognised professional body
  • Working knowledge of inspection and assessment codes and standards in the bridge engineering field (i.e. Eirspan Bridge Management System, Design Manual for Roads and Bridges, Irish Rail, Network Rail, etc.)
  • A strong work ethic
  • Flexible, motivated and focused
  • Fluent or highly proficient in spoken and written English 
  • Full, clean driving license

Desirable

  • Previous experience as a TII Bridge Inspection Team Leader
  • Have completed the Department of Transport LASNTG Bridge Engineering Inspection course
  • Ability to undertake bridge structure analytical modelling, such as construction stage and finite element analysis
  • Experience in bridge durability assessment and testing
  • Knowledge of bridge structural health monitoring and deterioration mechanisms
  • Experience of working independently 
  • Excellent numerical and analytical skills
  • Experience of working in a multidisciplinary environment

About Roughan & O'Donovan

Roughan & O’Donovan (ROD) is expert in planning, designing and managing major infrastructure projects for public and private sector clients across Ireland and the UK. An independently owned firm, we employ a team of more than 250 people, of over 20 different nationalities, in our Dublin and UK offices.

Our people are the heart of our business, and we invest heavily in their personal and professional development through all stages of career development. We are an Engineers Ireland CPD Accredited Employer and operate an Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) training scheme. 

We have developed comprehensive student placement, internship, graduate and chartership support programmes to help our team reach their full potential, as individuals and as engineers.

We offer health and wellbeing packages, flexible working and life-event supports, so whatever challenges life may bring, you can feel secure in the knowledge that you will be taken care of.

We are a friendly team with an active social committee. From surfing weekends, ski events and comedy clubs to tag rugby, cycling challenges and five-a-side, you'll find lots of ways to get involved.

How to apply

Roughan & O’Donovan is an equal opportunity employer. 

Roughan & O'Donovan will retain, for at least one year, all records arising through the recruitment process for compliance purposes in line with the Employment Equality Acts, 1998-2015.

Roughan & O'Donovan is not accepting unsolicited CVs from search firms.  CVs submitted by search firms without a valid written search agreement, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the sole property of Roughan & O'Donovan, and no fee will be paid in the event of candidate(s) being hired.