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Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. With more than 36,000 people in over 70 countries, we are dedicated to improving quality of life.

Our Digital Engineering team is seeking an AI Bridge Design Lead with a reputation for technical excellence and innovation, delivering prestigious and challenging projects across the globe. Various work projects include new major highways, bridges, rehabilitating critical infrastructure, designing landmark structures, rail and transit engineering work that leaves a tangible and lasting impact on communities in Canada.

As the AI Bridge Design Lead, you will play a key role in delivering technically challenging schemes, mentoring junior engineers, and driving innovation through the application of digital engineering and AI tools. This role goes beyond traditional design: it’s about shaping the future of bridge engineering through sustainability, digital transformation, and advanced analytics.

Role accountabilities:

In this role you will lead and contribute to the design and analysis of bridge structures, including steel, concrete, and composite types, using industry-standard tools such as AutoCAD, Revit, Civil 3D, Bentley, SAP2000, and MIDAS. You will apply sound independent engineering judgment across multiple projects, ensuring technical excellence and strict compliance with relevant codes and standards. You will be responsible for managing or supporting the delivery of projects from concept through to construction, ensuring that outcomes are sustainable, innovative, and consistently exceed client expectations. Your work will also require a robust understanding of design risk management and quality management systems, ensuring all deliverables meet the highest standards.

In this position, you will also drive digital and AI innovation by collaborating with Design & Engineering teams, as well as AI and data science professionals, to develop advanced tools for structural health monitoring, predictive maintenance, and design optimization. You will play a key role in integrating AI technologies—such as generative design, computer vision, and digital twins—into bridge design workflows. In addition, you will champion the adoption of automation, Building Information Modeling (BIM), and data-driven engineering processes across bridge projects, supporting workflow automation to enhance efficiency and quality.

As a technical leader, you will provide subject matter expertise, technical guidance, and mentoring for a team of engineers, typically comprising 3 to 5 members. You will foster a culture of continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and digital upskilling, ensuring your team is well-equipped to tackle emerging challenges in the industry. Effective communication will be essential, as you will be expected to convey complex technical solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Finally, in this role you will collaborate across Arcadis’ global regions, supporting major international infrastructure projects and ensuring the seamless integration of best practices and innovative solutions. Your leadership and collaborative approach will help drive both project success and organizational growth on a global scale.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required:

• BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng in Structural / Civil Engineering (or related discipline)
• Professional Engineer (CEng/PE) status or working towards it
• Previous relevant experience in delivering large and complex structural projects (bridges, retaining walls, etc.) across new build and existing assets
• Experience in leading teams and providing technical guidance
• Proficiency in Python, MATLAB, or similar programming languages for engineering applications
• Familiarity with BIM, parametric modeling, and digital engineering workflows
• Understanding of AI/ML concepts (e.g., regression, classification, deep learning)
• Excellent communications skills, client facing presentation skills, and ability to take complex client problems and provide solutions with delivery excellence

Preferred:

• Experience with digital twin platforms, IoT sensors, or structural health monitoring
• Knowledge of cloud-based workflows (Autodesk BIM360, Azure, AWS, Projectwise)
• Demonstrated passion for sustainability and innovative infrastructure solutions
• Strong personal and social skills with the ability to discuss and present ideas confidently to gain client trust

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.