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With Amey Consulting, you’ll work with high profile infrastructure organisations, giving you the unique opportunity to bring ground-breaking work to life. Your solutions will have impact, making a genuine difference to people’s lives. You’ll work in a growing team that is inclusive, open-minded and where your professional development can thrive.
It’s where you feel valued and alive
Fresh challenge new opportunity
Amey Consulting’s Highways teams impact the journeys of millions across the UK, by working in partnership with a range of clients and providing consultancy design services for Strategic and Local Highway networks. We are passionate about the highways projects that we design and take pride in seeing our towns and cities thrive by improving connectivity, journey times and quality of life
The role
Amey Consulting are working on various intricate and challenging Highways, Structures and Bridges design projects throughout Highways England’s Area 10 Network. The highways sector has always been one of our core sectors and because of our success in designing, building and maintaining the Strategic Road Network, Amey Consulting has become an industry leader in Highways Design consultancy services. With a growing team of 45+ staff, working collaboratively with Highways England in a shared office space in Birchwood, we continue to create innovative solutions to complex problems. We also support our people in their need to work flexibly, to fit around their lifestyle needs.
Due to an increased workload, we are looking to recruit an Assistant Engineer within our Structures and Bridges team. The successful candidate(s) will work collaboratively within the structures design team to assist with the design delivery of structures and bridges schemes. The current schemes in development include: highway bridge deck replacements, footbridge replacements, pier strengthening, bridge refurbishments, bridge re-waterproofing and parapet replacement schemes.
This role will offer the opportunity for the right candidate to innovate and work with their team to develop themselves and the projects they work on. We are continuously working hard to collaborate with clients and our supply-chain to ensure we are successful in the objective of improving the world we live in.
In a typical week you will
- Drive effective health and safety practices within your Team
- Liaise with the Client and our Community partners to ensure solutions that are developed are suitable for buildability and maintainability
- Provide support to the Engineer and Senior Engineer within the design team on various design duties including:
- Surveys/Inspections
- Feasibility and other technical reports
- Planning, programming and cost estimation
- Design production
- Produce design schedules
- Amend design drawings
- Support development of Graduate Engineers and Technicians
- Work to programme to deliver specified designs on time
- Ensure innovation and best practice is highlighted and adopted where practicable
We want to hear from you if
- A Degree qualification in a relevant discipline
- Began working towards CEng or IEng within a relevant professional body
- Design experience within the Highways Sector
- The ability to use the design software in the discipline
- A track record of successful design project delivery
- The ability to problem solve in collaboration with clients
In return
Our rewards make us feel valued here at Amey Consulting. If you’re happy, you’ll think better. It’s a simple formula but one that puts your wellbeing as a top priority, that’s why we’ve worked hard to build a reward and benefits program that puts you first, including;
- Competitive salary
- Exceptional development and progression plan
- Contributory Pension Scheme
- Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays
- Additional Leave Purchase Scheme
- Amey Rewards Portal including healthcare, free GP service, dental and childcare vouchers
Your career at Amey
At Amey Consulting, we value collective expertise, but also the spark one person can bring. As one of us, you can really be yourself, because your individuality is an asset. You’ll be surrounded by people who want you to thrive and embrace new challenges; and we’ll give you the flexibility to work in a way that suits you. You’ll be stretched, but always supported. We’ll recognise your hard work and look after your well-being too. You’ll be empowered to play your part and achieve, encouraged to fulfil your own ambition as well as the shared one.
