Opening for Principal Engineer - Civil, Bridge & Ground in WSP, Bangalore

Role Summary

•  Undertake assessment of existing bridges and preparing assessment reports
•  Carry out feasibility studies for strengthening and repair.
•  Prepare bridge design and strengthening design to WSP and UK standards ensuring compliance with appropriate design and health and safety standards and WSP BMS procedures
•  Lead and carry out design and assessment checks (Cat II or CatIII) under the direction of Associate or Associate Director
•  Review and oversee the work of Junior team members
•  Liaise with the WSP UK internal clients and Local CRC Head to ensure that project requirements are fully understood and essential elements of the role are satisfactorily completed to time and fee
•  Be self motivated and take on project work with a clear focus on timeliness, quality and technical excellence.
•  Assist the UK CRC Head in providing regular reports and updates to WSP UK and India management teams
•  Actively deliver on the CRC Charter promises
•  Identify needs and expectations of the UK Client Team, agree and confirm project brief including deliverables and programme
•  Present project work for technical review and sign off by project leader including all calculations
•  Prepare or assist others in compiling drawings, specifications, reports and correspondence within given deadlines including checking compliance with the project brief
•  In conjunction with Team Leader agree appropriate use of manual calculations or appropriate software for Computer Aided Design, construct models and undertake analysis and manual checks
•  Participate in team meetings, disseminate information within the team, and communicate with other teams in WSP
•  Demonstrate an awareness of project risk issues, flagging potential problems to team leader
•  Prepare elemental work for project budget costing as delegated by the senior team member, within agreed deadlines and standards
•  Be responsible for planning own work and carrying out self-checks
•  Carry out health and safety risk assessments at regular intervals for all projects, ensuring full documentation of actions taken to mitigate or avoid risks
•  Agree priorities and deadlines with Project Engineer
•  Ensure work is carried out in accordance with Project Plan and deliverables are issued in time to the correct quality • Maintain project EVA to monitor project progress and identify divergence to Project Engineer in a timely manner
•  Flag resourcing concerns to team leader and assist colleagues in ensuring team deadlines are met
•  Strive to carry out work in the most economical manner whilst having regard for project output requirements
•  Follow QA, document control, archiving & CDM guidelines on all work • Ensure the correct implementation of document control and QA processes are followed for issue and filing / archiving of all work carried out
•  Produce work to specified WSP design standards, suggest revisions to standards as appropriate
•  Ensure all relevant standards and guides are used in accordance with UK Design standards and WSP BMS/QA processes (WoW)
•  Ensure compliance with AiP or other project requirements
•  Use WSP calculation templates and ensure calculation sheets comply with WSP standards
•  Use WSP Technical library and Information systems to assist design work
•  Ensure only latest version (unless specifically required by AiP) of British and European Standards are used - do not rely on printed copies
•  Assist project set up by agreeing delivery strategy, type and method of delivery including manual / software calculations with project engineer to ensure efficient methods of working
•  Agree priorities and deadlines for deliverables and staged deliverables with Project Engineer
•  Input to the co-ordination of engineering services on projects
•  Identify additional input information required from UK Client Team due to shortfall in input data or conflicting information requiring resolution at the earliest possible time
•  Assist Project Engineer by framing queries and providing necessary supporting information to allow query to be sent
•  Keep abreast of developments in the Civil Engineering Industry through trade press, technical papers and technical learning channels (e.g. NBS)
•  Continually strive to develop and increase technical skills through regular review of technical papers in Civil Engineering and Structural Engineering Procedures
•  Continually strive to develop and increase technical skills through regular review of WSP TRM and Watch-It papers
•  Continually strive to develop and increase technical skills by striving to understand the underlying reasons for codal requirements
•  Continually strive to develop and increase skills in Superstress, SAM, Archie M, LUSAS, MIDAS and other computer aided design software • Share knowledge with immediate colleagues and the rest of the iCRC
•  Participate in team meetings and learning sessions to disseminate information within the team, and communicate with other teams in WSP
•  Continually strive for a 'First Time Right' culture - learn from own and other's mistakes to avoid repetition Responsibilities To work independently and /or to lead a team of Engineers and Technicians to deliver bridge design and assessment projects for UK. 

Key Competencies / Skills 

Preliminary and detailed design of bridges. Experience in software like Staad Pro, STRAP, RM, LUSAS, SAM, MIDAS etc Experience of design using IRC 112, BS standards etc Chartership with ICE or IStructE, UK or working towards the samePreliminary and detailed design of bridges, culverts and ancillary structures Assessment of bridges, canopies, sheds, signal gantries, portals etc Experience in software like Supersuite, LUSAS, SAM, MIDAS etc Experience using Eurocodes, BS standards, DMRB, NwR standards etc 

Qualifications 

Bachelor of Engineering Master of Engineering Experience required - 9+ years 

Please send resume to yarlachiranjeevi@gmail.com

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