Principal Building Structures Engineer

We have a fantastic opportunity for a permanent Principal Building Structures Engineer to join our Advisory team within Consulting – a vibrant, inclusive community that celebrates our differences and makes a real impact across the UK. Open to Senior Engineers across Birmingham, Telford, Manchester, Stafford, Sheffield and Bristol.

The role involves acting as a technical team leader, providing advice, guidance, and supervision to the delivery of projects within the Built Environment Structural Engineering portfolio, operational managers, clients, and suppliers. You will manage or influence the actions of technical teams regardless of office location, project, or account, including the multidisciplinary environment, and undertake the people manager role when required by the business. You will work with other technical leads within the Built Environment practice to engender a quality culture in the practice with staff owning their assigned deliverables and wanting to deliver right‑first time. The individual is expected to develop their technical and professional skills to a level approaching subject‑matter expert.

Key responsibilities:

• Function as a technical team leader, providing advice, guidance, and supervision to technical teams, operational managers, clients, and suppliers.
• Lead the preparation and checking of designs, calculations, drawings, specifications, reports, technical papers, and other documentation as part of the production of scheme deliverables that satisfy the overarching criteria of quality, cost, and programme, including compliance with regulatory and statutory requirements.
• Contribute to the commercial success of projects within the Built Environment Structural Engineering portfolio, monitoring budgets and managing costs associated with the production of deliverables.
• Liaise with client and supplier representatives at peer level and higher, including presenting proposals.
• Significantly contribute to and be accountable for technical input where required for work‑winning functions.
• Make site visits on a visiting basis to assist with project delivery or work‑winning.
• Assume the role of people manager when required by the business.

What you will bring to us:

• Developed experience and expertise within relevant technical fields, gained in a Senior Engineer role or equivalent.
• Incorporated or Chartered status, or an equivalent professional licence, gained through the professional institution to which the individual is aligned.
• Apply engineering theory and principles to complex or ambiguous situations, where concepts need to be adapted to reach the correct outcome.
• Knowledge, understanding, and experience of design and specification processes with the ability to manage others; demonstrates a full understanding of the project scope and acts as Design Team Lead for both simple and complex projects.
• Experienced with relevant software and similar analytical tools.
• Good ability to check work produced by others and to validate and approve the use of new tools.
• Excellent knowledge of suppliers and the services they provide, maintained through regular contact.
• Demonstrate an excellent understanding of CDM and risk assessment.
• Experienced in the management and communication of hazards and risks on projects and ensure appropriate risk mitigation and transference has been applied.
• Can function as Principal Designer for Built Environment Structural Engineering projects.
• Supervisory and people manager skills; capable of managing or influencing the actions of technical teams regardless of office location, project, or account, including the multidisciplinary environment and to undertake the people manager role.
• Excellent oral communicator, able to present arguments and ideas very well to peers, more senior colleagues, and clients; can deliver internal training workshops and presentations to clients.

What we can offer you:

• Flexibility, career development, a choice of benefits and support that help you through all life’s ups and downs.
• Exceptional personal development, training and progression plans, designed to allow you to shine in your career, all in line with your personal ambition.
• Competitive salary and compensation.
• Generous pension scheme, with extra contributions from Amey.
• 24 days annual leave, plus bank holidays.
• Flexible benefits scheme, including the option to buy additional annual leave and insurance benefits, Cycle to Work scheme and access to discounted gym membership.
• Our Save with Amey programme gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in.
• Family friendly policies for new parents or if you provide care for a dependant.
• Membership of our Affinity Networks which connect, support and inspire diverse communities within Amey.
• Two Social Impact Days each year, for volunteering and fundraising opportunities.

Amey is committed to Inclusion and Diversity. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview, if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.