Associate (Bridges) United Kingdom London Application Deadline 19 June 2026

Do you want to lead others on Bridge project design? Can you build relations within a very technical engineering team? Are you an experienced Bridge designer? Then, enhance your career by turning challenges into sustainable solutions. Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow.

To grow our Bridge business in London, we are looking for an Associate Bridge Engineer to join us. Working on technically challenging bridge and structures projects, you’ll be given the opportunity to guide and support younger colleagues.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Managing the delivery of your projects to time and budget, ensuring an industry-leading standard of technical quality and compliance with our internal management systems.
• Managing, mentoring and developing less experienced engineers and technicians within your project teams, working with line managers to maximise training opportunities.
• Developing and maintaining client relationships through your project work, including identifying and realising any potential business opportunities through your professional network.
• Assisting with the preparation of bids and tenders and supporting the Directors in pursuing business development opportunities where required.
• Production and delivery of engineering design, assessment or checking work including preparation or checking of calculations, written reports and other contract deliverables.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future. Like us, you believe that leadership success comes from setting a clear and meaningful direction for your team and supporting them in taking ownership of their work. You always delegate responsibility and ensure an open and safe dialogue, and you coach your people to achieve their aspirations through constructive, fact-based feedback. Attracting and nurturing a diverse group of high-potential team members is at the top of your agenda, as is creating an inclusive, caring and trusting culture in your team.

On top of that, you’ll have:

• Chartered civil or structural engineer (MICE, MIStructE or equivalent).
• Significant experience in a design environment working on bridges, heavy civil, or other complex structures in the UK or internationally.
• Significant experience leading project teams and managing the delivery of projects, either as client's or contractor's designer, ideally both.
• An accomplished team leader with the ability to support, mentor and develop less experienced engineers.
• The inter-personal skills and aptitude to work collaboratively in a diverse multi-disciplinary team.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• A technically strong engineer, able to demonstrate a deep understanding and passion for civil / structural engineering and a personal commitment to technical excellence.
• Flexibility and openness to supporting a wide array of civil / structural engineering projects to support sector growth strategies.

A place to work and so much more. At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers. We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun.

What we also offer:

• 28 days' holiday (plus bank and public holidays).
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities.
• Private health care, for you and your immediate dependents.
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions.
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions.
• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange.
• Life assurance.

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Ciaran Gilfedder at CIGI@COWI.COM. Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.