Senior Structural Engineer

Description

• Undertake checking of calculation packages, drawings, specifications, reports, and other project deliverables, ensuring that our QA procedures are complied with.
• Report on financial performance of projects and resourcing requirements to the senior management team and assist in the management of team resources required to implement the commercial and business direction of the team.
• Undertake existing building assessments, often including scoping intrusive investigations on site.
• Carry out structural analysis and design in accordance with Eurocode suite of design codes, ensuring designs are economic, sustainable, efficient and buildable.
• Oversee the production of detailed design drawings.
• Undertake surveys / inspections and produce high quality technical reports on findings, with appropriate recommendations, presenting these to the client where needed.
• Supervise and mentor junior engineers, technicians, and apprentices within the team, playing an active role in their future development.
• Undertake site visits during construction to resolve site queries, monitor progress and provide advice to contractors.
• Represent Ridge in an ‘external facing’ role, managing projects from inception to completion ensuring that deliverables are issued in accordance with the project programme, to the required quality standard and within budget and time allocation.
• Act as lead or sole designer as appropriate to the size and complexity of the project, responsible for outline scheme through to detailed design and production of technical deliverables.

Requirements

• Experience with Finite Element Design (ideally using SCIA Engineer) beneficial, but not essential.
• Good commercial awareness and demonstrable experience in ‘project running’.
• Experience with use of 2D/3D structural design packages such as TEKLA Structural Designer, TEDDS, Masterseries etc.
• Experience working with Building Information Modelling (BIM) and within a 3D environment generally.
• Have an awareness of sustainability in design and implementing sustainable options in preparation of structural designs.
• Demonstrable experience working on projects of scale and complexity with all forms of construction.
• Hold a current UK driving licence.
• Ability to effectively communicate design concepts through clear sketches by hand and using digital tools.
• MEng, BEng, BSc & MSc or BSc with extensive post-graduate experience in a field relevant to structural engineering, ideally recognised by the Engineering Council.
• Experience using AutoCAD and Revit beneficial, but not essential.
• Chartered (or near chartered) and a Member or Graduate Member of either the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) or Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).
• Demonstrable and sound experience in the design of structures in concrete, steel, masonry and timber.
• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English, including technical report writing skills.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance