The Company

Our client is a leading independent engineering and surveying consultancy. They have been established for over 35 years and have regional offices in the East Midlands and London. They offer civil and structural engineering expertise, ground investigation, health and safety services and building surveying as well as other specialised services and consulting support. Growth has led to the need for an experienced Associate Structural Engineer to progress their career to Director status and lead  a design team.

The Position

Your main duties & responsibilities will involve:

• Performing structural analysis and design and check work performed by others to Eurocodes and other prevailing codes.
• To act as structural design team leader for projects and be responsible for the technical quality of civils/structural work.
• To ensure deadlines are achieved and client expectations are managed.
• To provide technical leadership and professional development for the civils/structural team.
• To prepare and present designs, reports, calculations and specifications.
• To review and approve Civil/Structural engineering calculations.
• To conduct technical review of projects.
• To mentor more junior engineers/technicians and to ensure good engineering design delivery from drawing practices to document control and management
• To interface with clients and other disciplines (including M&E, SISS, Architecture, Track and Signals), attending and as required, chairing and minuting key meetings, and in particular IDC/IDR type rail meetings.
• To provide support as required to support internal management of RISQS and ISO certifications, e.g. adherence to policies, processes etc.
• To support the company to be compliant with health and safety, quality and environmental requirements, following legislation, standards, quality assurance and company administration policies and procedures.

The Person

The successful candidate will possess the following;

• BEng or BSc and MICE or MIStructE,
• CEng or working towards.
• Several years relevant consultancy experience.
• Civils / Structural engineering background.
• Experience working on a mixture of projects in a variety of sectors i.e. Transportation, Commercial, Retail, Industrial etc.
• Structural / Civil design, buildings, roads, rail and project administration, drawing and project document preparation, both to be able to lead and delegate through a team and be hands on.
• Leading a team of engineers on projects.
• Experience of site inspection, witness testing and supervision of contractors.
• A good understanding of rail procedures on multi-disciplinary rail projects to coordinate would be beneficial but not essential.

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