Experienced Graduate Bridge Engineer

Job Description

Start here. Grow Here.

We are currently recruiting for an Experienced Graduate Bridge Engineer to join our busy and expanding St Albans Bridges and Structures team. You will contribute to bridge design, inspection, assessment, and refurbishment schemes, gaining responsibility and client exposure as you progress toward professional qualification.

Our St Albans office has a strong track record of delivering bridge engineering schemes across the South East, the UK, and internationally. We specialize in providing assessment, concept, feasibility, preliminary, and detailed designs for a range of projects. Our work is underpinned by long-term framework agreements with local authorities and Network Rail, enabling us to deliver high-quality infrastructure solutions that support local and national transportation networks.

Here's what you'll do:

In this role, you will play a key part in supporting inspections, assessments, feasibility studies, and detailed designs for rail and road bridges and associated structures, gaining increasing autonomy as you advance in your career. Your responsibilities will include preparing calculations, reports, drawings, and technical approval documentation, as well as assisting with structural inspections and reporting, which may involve site visits and night or weekend work when necessary. You will engage in hands-on design and analysis of road and rail structures under the mentorship of Senior Engineers, collaborating closely with Technicians and multidisciplinary teams to support the delivery of high-quality outputs that meet project scope, timelines, and budgets. Current projects encompass bridge inspection, analysis, and design commissions for Local Authorities, as well as Structural Assessments of Operational Property and Civil Structures for Network Rail. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to participate in AECOM’s technical practice networks, structured training programs, and mentoring initiatives as you work towards achieving chartered status.

As a Bridge Graduate Engineer you will have the following daily responsibilities:

• Undertake rail and road bridges and associated structural engineering schemes from inspection and assessment, feasibility through to detailed design.
• Assist with preparation of technical documentation through to client sign off of Technical Approval documentation.
• Hands on technical design on road and/or rail structures.
• Hands on assessment of road and/or rail structures.
• Structural inspections and reporting.
• Excellent technical and communication skills both verbal and written.
• Client liaison.
• Assist with production of tenders including quality documentation and costings.
• Assist with Project Management including programme and resource monitoring, quality control, technical management and delivery.

Come grow with us.

We develop projects from concept through operation providing engineering and construction services for multiyear, multimillion-dollar projects for major rail and transit agencies. Our specialists provide analytical and strategic expertise for every stage of a project

And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here's what you'll need:

• Degree educated or equivalent in a relevant subject such as Bridge, Civil or Structural Engineering.
• MSc/MEng level or equivalent in Civil/Structural Engineering.
• Graduate Member with ICE and IStructE and proven commitment to gaining Chartership.
• Experience with bridge and related structural inspection assessment and design schemes.
• Knowledge of Eurocodes, British Standards and assessment codes.
• Working knowledge of AutoCad is preferrable but not essential.
• Experience in the design of concrete, steel, timber and masonry structures.
• Design and project management experience delivering to quality, time and budget.
• Experience in road, rail and water bridge projects.
• Experience in working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• High level technical skills in current inspection, assessment and design and be able to assist teams of graduate and technicians in such projects.
• Understanding of project Health and Safety responsibilities including compliance with CDM legislation.

• You will have a current driving license.

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

Additional Information

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.