Bridge Inspection Manager

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Job description

We're looking for a Bridge Inspection Manager to join our Transportation team based in Birmingham. Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, matched pension scheme, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, with opportunities to buy/sell leave and even more.

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Birmingham

Hours: 40 hours per week - Monday to Friday

Contract: Permanent - Full time

What will you be responsible for?

As a Bridge Inspection Manager, you'll be working within the Engineering team, supporting them in developing, delivering and managing the bridge inspection programmes in accordance with CS 450 - Inspection of Highway Structures, to meet the contractual requirements of the Birmingham highways interim services contract.

Your day to day will include:

• Developing and managing progress of the principal, general, special and asbestos management inspection programmes, reviewing and approving principal, general, special and asbestos management inspections, requesting quotations and raising task orders for specialist inspection and site investigation subcontractors appointed to carry out principal inspections and inspections for assessment
• Liaising with the assessment team confirming they are analysing and investigating defects / structures and actioning outcomes of any assessments as appropriate, communicating with external organisations (principally Network Rail and Canal and River Trust) with regards to access for inspections on third party land, providing ad-hoc formal / informal advice to client organisation and third parties
• Agreeing need for further investigations and facilitating their implementation, providing formal / informal advice to operational teams on managing defects associated with structures, developing GG104 assessments as required (i.e. managing existing risks or determining suitable solutions)
• Reviewing sub-contractors risk assessments and method statements in accordance with company processes and procedures, providing inspection progress reports and statistics for internal and external clients
• Collaborating with designers, commercial teams, contractors and delivery teams as necessary also working with asset leads pushing efficiencies like cost saving

What are we looking for?

This role of Bridge Inspection Manager is great for you if:

• You hold a degree or qualification in a civil engineering specialism with extensive experience of highway structures inspections in accordance with BD 63/07 and CS 450 and special access techniques and arrangements including rope access, confined space
  working, powered access and traffic management, and are well versed in the use of bridge asset management systems
• Have a current full driving licence
• Can take project ownership for delegated duties as well as demonstrate mentoring skills

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the

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