Senior Bridge Engineer

Company Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. There has never been a better time to be h accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand.

We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

AECOM’s Structural Bridge Engineering Practice is seeking a Senior Bridge Engineer with a passion for bridge design/structural engineering. In this role, the ideal candidate will act as a Structures Design Lead on a variety of exciting, often highly visible pursuits and projects. The individual will have overall responsibility for all structural aspects of these projects and inter‑discipline coordination of all technical issues with other discipline leads from initial design through technical support during the construction phase.

This is an excellent opportunity to work within a well‑established and very successful bridge design group that offers a diverse range of projects, technical challenges, and career development opportunities.

As part of our Greater Pennsylvania Area (GPA), we have several offices, which include:
Philadelphia, PA;
Conshohocken, PA;
Mechanicsburg, PA;
Pittsburgh, PA; and Morgantown, WV. The Senior Bridge Engineer is a hybrid role, working 2 days from one of these AECOM GPA offices and 3 days remotely each week.

AECOM’s GPA Bridge Engineering Practice works on projects throughout North America. These projects are delivered across many clients via various delivery methods. This includes steel and concrete bridges and other transportation structures, such as walls and sign structures that are critical to our nation’s transportation network and vital to local communities. These projects can include: vehicular, pedestrian, light‑rail transit and freight rail bridges;

stationary and movable bridges. Our Bridge Engineers perform evaluation and design for rehabilitation and replacement of bridges.

• Coordinate all structural engineering technical aspects of pursuits and projects with other disciplines and in support of the Project/Design Manager.
• Ensure the structural design is completed in accordance with the contract guidelines and design documents.
• Establish structural scope, work plan and work schedule in support of the Project Manager.
• Lead all elements of conceptual, preliminary and detailed final design of new bridges and rehabilitation or reconstruction of existing bridges.
• Provide technical guidance and perform quality control reviews of design calculations, drawings and other contract documents.
• Prepare and/or guide the development of technical specifications and construction cost estimates.
• Manage groups of engineers, designers and/or specialists towards development of structural design documents and contract deliverables with minimal guidance or supervision.
• Assure conformance with contractual obligations by ensuring that design documents are reviewed and approved prior to release to the client.
• Train, mentor and develop staff and support career growth opportunities for staff.
• Support marketing coordination and proposal preparation. Participate in proposal interviews.
• Ensure that QA/QC procedures are being implemented and ensure the technical quality of deliverables. Lead responses to client’s comments on structural design elements of the deliverables.
• Anticipate potential budget and schedule impacts and initiate plans for alternative actions.
• Incorporate innovation in design and delivery.

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