Principal/Senior Roads Engineer

at  WSP

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The Ireland Roads Team is seeking a Principal Engineer with extensive post professional qualification experience in the design and project management of road schemes and active travel schemes to work in either our Dublin or Limerick office. The team is growing and offers excellent opportunities for the right candidate.
The successful candidate will lead and help grow a team undertaking concept, preliminary and detailed designs for major national road schemes including the N/M20 Cork to Limerick Project, Public Transport schemes including Dublin Metrolink, Cork BusConnects and Active Travel schemes for the National Transport Authority and Local Authorities.

You will be involved in the project management and technical delivery of schemes from inception through to handover of the completed schemes to the clients. This role will primarily be client facing and the successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a track record of delivery of schemes in either the local or national transport arena. The role is likely to include:

• Managing projects to ensure coordination and compatibility of multi-disciplinary inputs on projects of varying scale, complexity and value.
• Liaising with our clients, developing strong trusted relationships, proactively managing their expectations and comprehensively advising them.
• Undertake project technical lead and reviewer roles
• Using your technical ability and experience to develop our staff
• Prepare fee proposals and manage budgets for individual projects.
• Be responsible for the development and delivery of discrete and overall project solutions;
• Lead and manage other staff members in the delivery of design drawings, standard construction details, specifications and bill of quantities, supporting the preparation of tender packages;
• Responsible for compliance with Health & Safety and Environmental Legislation and inhouse quality assurance standards/processes;