Senior Structural Engineer

Calibre Search are working alongside an agile Consultancy who specialise within the built environment. With over 1000 dedicated employees, they help their clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment. As the demand for their expertise continues to grow, they have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Structural Engineer within their busy Leeds office.

With a varied work-stream, covering a wide range of disciplines in property and construction, you will have the opportunity to practice in many fields of structural engineering ranging from the design of large complex developments ranging from 1 - 150 million in value, through to undertaking detailed assessments of existing structures, playing a pivotal role in the development of the built environment.

As part of their fully multi-disciplinary design approach, you will be responsible for providing a wide range of structural engineering services. You will be expected to work independently under the direction and support of the senior management team and will be given full opportunity to further develop managerial skills with ample opportunity for supported career development.

As a Senior Engineer, you will work 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. You will 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 and 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.

You will undertake checking of calculation packages, drawings, specifications, reports, and other project deliverables, ensuring that their QA procedures are complied with, undertake surveys / inspections and produce high quality technical reports on findings, with appropriate recommendations, presenting these to the client where needed. You will also undertake existing building assessments in line with Building Safety Act requirements including managing intrusive investigations on site and site visits during construction to resolve site queries, monitor progress and provide advice to contractors.

Other duties include carrying out structural analysis and design in accordance with Eurocode suite of design codes, ensuring designs are economic, sustainable, efficient and buildable and overseeing the production of detailed design drawings. You will also be responsible for supervising and mentoring junior engineers, technicians and apprentices within the team, playing an active role in their future development.

As a Chartered (or near Chartered) and a Member or Graduate Member of either the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) or Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), you will demonstrate excellent communication skills in written and spoken English, including technical report writing skills. You will have demonstrable and sound experience in the design of structures in concrete, steel, masonry and timber, experience with Finite Element Design and the use of 2D and 3D structural design packages such as TEKLA Structural Designer, TEDDS and MasterSeries. You will have experience working with Building Information Modelling (BIM) and within a 3D environment generally and experience using AutoCAD and Revit is beneficial, but not essential.

Demonstrating experience working in projects of a similar size and complexity as above and familiarity with key forms of building construction, you will have UK experience working in an 'external facing' role, undertaking surveys / inspections and in assisting contractors on site. An awareness of sustainability in design and implementing sustainable options in preparation of structural designs would be beneficial.

You will receive a healthy holiday allowance plus the option to buy, carry over or sell. You can also take three volunteering days each year to spend time on causes close to your heart and benefit from a flexible approach to hybrid working. They offer performance bonus, car allowance and more based on your role and progression, meaning you are in charge of your own destiny.

A full UK Drivers license is required for this role.

For more information about this role, please contact Sam Smith at Calibre Search or click apply. Calibre Search promote equality in the workplace and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified candidates regardless of their sex, race, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age. We act as both an employment agency and employment business.