Senior Structural Engineer

Our client is one of the world’s most respected design, engineering, and project management consultancies. They have a requirement for a Senior Structural Engineer with demonstrable technical and commercial experience to join their growing Newcastle team on a permanent basis and to help support their diverse portfolio and increasing workload.  

Job Description:  

This new appointment is part of our client's aspiration to develop and grow its structural capability in North Region, in particular, the North East of England.  

You will be a Chartered Civil/Structural Engineer with a proven track record of successful delivery of design projects from concept to completion. Credibility, competence and technical excellence are a given as the role requires close working with our client's internal and external clients, decision makers, industry stakeholders and other consultants to develop robust design solutions through collaborative and proactive management of client demands. You will be required to demonstrate a developed understanding of the market and industry and ability to focus our client's business to take full advantage of market conditions.  

Responsibilities:  

- Establish, develop, and maintain relationships with key and prospective clients.  

- Technical and commercial responsibility for structural engineering design delivery.  

- Review calculations, drawings, and design documentation.  

- Management and technical development of their capabilities and their organisation’s individual.  

- Engineers and Technicians to attain industry recognised Professional qualifications.  

- Client and stakeholder interfacing.  

- Undertaking embodied carbon calculations for building structures and advising their clients on low embodied carbon structural solutions.

- Degree-qualified Civil/Structural Engineer.  

- Chartered Civil/Structural Engineer (near chartered will be considered).  

- Extensive post graduate experience in structural engineering building projects.  

- Detailed working knowledge of design codes and standards relating to structural engineering such as Eurocodes.  

- Proven track record in design delivery with specific experience of; steel, reinforced concrete, masonry, and timber designs from concept to detailed delivery, foundation design and structural analysis, construction delivery.  

- Detailed working knowledge and experience of 2D & 3D analytical packages such as, but not limited to, Robot, Tekla and Tedds.  

- Knowledge of construction implementation with proven site experience and an understanding of buildability.  

- Proven track record in delivering technically excellent design projects on time, to budget and to the required levels of quality.  

- Sound commercial understanding of the consultancy business.  

- Good communicator (written, verbal & presentations).  

- A natural curiosity for developing innovative and cost-effective solutions  

- Ability to develop, motivate and mentor their growing team.  

- Proven record of developing client relationships and winning new consultancy work.  

- Ability to achieve SC clearance.  

- Understanding of low embodied carbon structural solutions and how to calculate embodied carbon of building structures.  

Desirable:  

- Driving Licence  

- Knowledge of NEC3 and NEC4 Contracts and the roles defined therein