Senior Structures Engineer ( Rail Bridges)

Our client is recruiting a Senior Structures Engineer to join a specialist technical team that sits at the heart of delivery on one of Europe's largest infrastructure programmes. When the main works contractors encounter a structural or bridge engineering problem they cannot resolve, this team is where it goes. Your day-to-day purpose is to work through those challenges, provide technically sound answers and support the decisions that keep construction moving. The team acts as the technical authority for departures across the civil structures discipline. That means you will be working alongside senior engineers on critical engineering decisions, assessing whether proposed solutions meet the programme requirements, and contributing your judgement at the point where it matters most. Across bridges, retaining walls, culverts, cut-and-cover tunnels and other civil structures, the team covers the full structural scope. You will need to read and understand complex designs quickly, identify where the engineering challenge actually sits and work towards a resolution. This is problem-solving work at the sharp end of a live construction programme. You will provide technical advice and assurance to designers and contractors, assess proposed solutions against applicable standards and requirements, and contribute to the governance processes through which technical departures are reviewed and decided. Where new or evolving conditions on site create ques...