Overview
As a Senior or Principal Structural Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in delivering innovative structural designs for clean water and wastewater projects within a growing multidisciplinary engineering consultancy. You will collaborate with Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical engineers to provide integrated solutions while mentoring junior staff and ensuring compliance with industry standards. This position offers an opportunity to lead the engineering design process and contribute to major infrastructure projects across the UK water sector.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of structural engineering design packages across water and wastewater projects.
- Produce high-quality design calculations, drawings, technical reports, specifications, and Design Risk Assessments (DRAs).
- Develop practical, efficient, and buildable engineering solutions based on client requirements and site constraints.
- Ensure compliance of all designs with relevant standards and regulations.
- Manage and document design changes throughout the project lifecycle.
- Prepare scopes of work and review outputs from subcontract design teams as needed.
- Attend and present at client meetings, design reviews, and technical workshops.
- Mentor and support Graduate Engineers and CAD Technicians, fostering their technical development.
Requirements
- Around 10 years' structural design experience within the UK water industry.
- Degree or HND in Structural Engineering or a related discipline.
- Strong experience producing structural engineering designs for clean water and wastewater projects.
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) status for Principal and Discipline Lead candidates.
- Experience mentoring engineers and reviewing engineering documents.
- Membership of a relevant professional institution and working towards Chartered status.
- Good IT and digital engineering capability, with knowledge of BIM and CDE workflows.
- Full UK driving licence.