Job type: Permanent, with full-time, part-time or flexible working options available
Location: Sandyford, Dublin 18, Ireland; Woodford, Dublin 17, Ireland; and Otley, Leeds, UK
Salary: Competitive
The opportunities
- Provide specialist and technically demanding input to bridge and multidisciplinary civil engineering projects
- Work with a dynamic, talented team on an exciting range of bridgeworks projects
- Develop your skills to the highest industry standards
- Work closely with new and existing clients
- Support our bid team
- Advance your career under the guidance of our senior management team
Role responsibilities
- Work with both existing and new bridges and civil structures across a range of materials and forms, superstructure, substructure and articulation elements
- Get involved at the early project stages: scoping, specifying and interpreting surveys, inspection and investigative works, optioneering, scheme design
- Detailed design: modelling, calculations, overseeing drawing production
- Document preparation, including authoring technical reports, such as AIPs, specifications and contract documents
- Support reviews of others’ work: cat 3 checking, as a client representative and designer’s site representative
- Provide inputs to clients from local and national authorities, consultants, and D&B contractors amongst others
Essential
- A degree in civil/structural engineering to master’s level or equivalent. For example, in the Republic of Ireland, a five-year undergraduate degree (Level 9 to the Irish National Framework of Qualifications or Level 8 for those qualified before 2013)
- Minimum three to seven years’ professional experience
- Chartered Engineer with Engineers Ireland, the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) or equivalent, or demonstrably working towards chartered status
- Ability to work within a dynamic, multidisciplinary team
- A developing strong technical knowledge and engineering skills/knowledge of bridge engineering software (analysis and design)
- Flexible, motivated and focussed
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to produce quality design outputs
- Good organisational skills
- A strong work ethic
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Fluent/highly proficient in spoken and written English
Desirable
- Knowledge and developing experience in the use of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) and other standards and legislation including Eurocodes in the field of bridge/structural design.
- Multidisciplinary consultancy or contracting experience from allied civil engineering disciplines, such as highways, structural, geotechnics, rail or water
- A willingness and aptitude for understanding and contributing to colleagues’ work in areas beyond transportation infrastructure projects
- A willingness to contribute to bids and tenders
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 200 people, of over 20 different nationalities, in our Dublin and UK offices.
Our portfolio features:
- bridges, including cable-stayed and moveable bridges
- highways, roads, public transport and greenways in Ireland and the UK
- residential, health, education, office and retail developments
- asset management
- research and development
- environmental services
Current and recent projects include:
- Herring Bridge, Great Yarmouth, UK
- Waterford City Public Infrastructure Project, Ireland
- River Clyde Bridge, Renfrewshire, Scotland
- Northern Spire Bridge in Sunderland, UK
- Humber Bridge Maintenance Operation, UK
- A6 Dungiven to Drumahoe Dualling scheme, Northern Ireland
- A6 Randalstown to Castledawson ECI scheme, Northern Ireland
- DART+ West Public Transport Project, Ireland
What to expect when you join ROD
When you join ROD, you will become part of a team recognised for outstanding technical skill and passion for excellence. You will have access to the exceptional training opportunities our award-winning CPD programme provides and enjoy a workplace that supports growth, flexibility and creativity.
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 to tag rugby, cycling challenges to five-a-side, you'll find lots of ways to get involved.
To apply
Address your cover letter to Human Resources
Apply by clicking the link: https://bitly.cx/lLaI4
Roughan & O’Donovan is an equal opportunity employer.
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