Ross Somers

Experience

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  Albert Fry Associates

  Apr 2004 - Sept 2004

  Student Engineer

  Gained experience in an engineering environment generally working as an Autocad technician

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  Molony Millar Consulting Engineers

  Jul 2005 - Apr 2011

  Project Engineer

  Started as a graduate engineer directly after college. Duties as a graduate included checking structural designs, checking reinforcement on site, carrying out percolation tests, surveying, etc.After a few months as a graduate engineer, became a design engineer and then moved onto project engineer, working on a wide range of projects. Became a Chartered Engineer whilst in Molony Millar in 2010.Responsible for initial scheme designs, moving onto the full structural design and then, monitoring of projects on site including attendance at design team and site meetings and dealing with queries from site.Also responsible for supervision of graduate engineers and teams of technicians. Preparation of fee proposals for projects as well as cost management.Used to working to tight deadlines in order to issue information for tender, construction, etc.Projects ranged in value from small projects to large projects worth €250 millionGained extensive experience in design and supervision of residential, retail, commercial and industrial construction projects. Show less

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  Walsh Goodfellow Consulting Engineers

  Apr 2011 - Dec 2011

  Chartered Engineer

  Responsible for the full civil & structural design of a nursing home in Co. Dublin as well as apartment developments in London. Calculations had to be submitted to Building Control in the UK and these were passed without comment.The design of the concrete frames to the apartments was generally carried out using RAM Concept. Robot was also used to carry out the design of certain elements.

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  PUNCH Consulting Engineers

  Mar 2012 - Sept 2015

  Chartered Senior Engineer

  Responsible for cost & project management, structural design & supervision of drawing production & site monitoring along with attendance at meetings and dealing with design team and site queries on a wide range of significant projects across the country including the following:- construction of new schools- refurbishment of existing hospital buildings and other healthcare developments including primary care centres- change of use of existing commercial buildings to hotels- completion of derelict sites owned by NAMA- other private developments including new house construction, leisure centres and office block conversionsOther responsibilities include property inspections and preparation of all types of structural reports, bridge inspections on regional roads throughout Ireland as part of the Eirspan database system utilised by the NRA, supervision of junior engineers and technicians, preparation of fee proposals for projects as well as cost management during the course of the project and invoicing. Show less

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  Walsh Goodfellow Consulting Engineers

  Sept 2015 - Dec 2019

  Chartered Senior Engineer

  Worked on a number of exciting developments including Liverpool Shopping Park, Barretstown Kids Camp, Four Ferns Nursing Home, Ecocem France and other hotel, leisure, residential and commercial projects around Ireland, the UK and continental Europe.

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  RS Consulting Engineers

  Dec 2019 - now

  Director

  RS Consulting Engineers was founded in 2019. We are a civil & structural engineering consultancy based in Dublin.