Design Bridge Engineers

As a design engineer, you will be providing specialist and technically demanding input to bridge and multidisciplinary civil engineering projects.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Working with both existing and new bridges and civil structures across a range of materials and forms, superstructure, substructure and articulation elements
• Inputting at early project stages to scopes, specifications and interpretations of surveys, inspection and investigative works, optioneering, scheme design
• Detailed design: modelling, calculations, drawing production
• Document contributions, including authoring technical reports, such as AIPs, specifications and contract documents
• Assisting in the review of others' work: cat 3 checking as a client representative and designer’s site representative
• Supporting graduate engineers as they progress towards chartership. Our training scheme is approved by the ICE

Our very strong order book for 2022 and beyond features a broad range of bridgeworks and offers you much scope for career advancement.

• Minimum three years’ professional experience as a bridge engineer
• Chartership status with the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) or equivalent/have made significant demonstrable progress towards chartership
• Knowledge and experience in the use of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) and other standards
• Fluent/highly proficient in spoken and written English
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Good organisational skills
• Motivated individual with a strong work ethic

• Ability to undertake structural analysis modelling, such as grillages and finite element
• Confidence to undertake detailed design calculations independently
• A willingness and aptitude for understanding and contributing to colleagues’ work in areas beyond transportation infrastructure projects

Founded in 1974, Roughan & O'Donovan (ROD) is a director-owned company employing over 200 people in the UK and Ireland. Our managing director is based in Otley.

We provide civil, environmental and structural engineering consultancy services, with a notable specialism in bridges. About 20% of our work is UK-based, and this figure is steadily increasing due to our strong relationships with clients.  

Current and recent bridge projects include:

• Humber Bridge Barton Tower side span A-frames works
• Great Yarmouth Third River Crossing in Norfolk
• Waterford Public Infrastructure Project
• River Cycle Bridge, Renfrewshire, Scotland
• Northern Spire Bridge in Sunderland
• Dublin moveable bridges – design development of 2 No. proposed high-profile structures
• Balanced cantilever segmental post-tensioned bridge cat 3 check

ROD is a welcoming company. We genuinely care about our staff. Our UK office is in a converted mill building, situated in a picturesque wooded environment alongside the River Wharfe, with parking available.

• Address your cover letter to Human Resources
• Apply by clicking on the link: https://shorturl.at/flE17