Manager - Bridges & Structure - AG6

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Develop and manage risk-based inspection, maintenance, and condition-assessment programmes for bridges, tunnels, and related structures.
• Oversee investigation and remediation of deterioration, cracking, corrosion, water ingress, and other critical defects.
• Coordinate structural assessments, load evaluations, monitoring, and testing to inform engineering recommendations.
• Manage maintenance contractors and technical consultants against scope, quality, budget, and service-level requirements.
• Forecast lifecycle needs, renewal priorities, and investment proposals based on condition and risk.
• Lead design-review and operational-handover input, checking maintainability, documentation, training, and defect closure.
• Coordinate tunnel-system interfaces, planned closures, and incident support; report asset performance and escalate material risks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil or Structural Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline; at least 8 years of relevant engineering experience.
• At least 5 years in bridge and/or tunnel inspection, maintenance, rehabilitation, or asset management.
• At least 2 years leading technical work packages, specialist contractors, or engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of structural behaviour, deterioration, condition assessment, rehabilitation, and risk-based lifecycle planning in operational infrastructure.
• Professional engineering registration or eligibility for registration is required; chartered status, specialist inspection training, and tunnel safety-interface experience are advantageous.