We have an excellent opportunity for an experienced Principal Structural Engineer to join our highly regarded, award-winning Civil & Structural team within Cardiff. The role focuses on delivery and management, with increasing business development responsibilities.
We offer an excellent people-focused culture, an abundance of engaging projects and a clearly defined progression structure. As part of our national Civil and Structural team (200 employees and growing), you will have the opportunity to work alongside other successful divisions such as MEP, Nuclear, Smart Energy, and Sustainability.
Responsibilities of the Role:
Delivery
As a highly experienced civil and/or structural engineering designer, you will lead your team’s project delivery efforts, taking responsibility for all aspects of our projects, leading the way for our engineers and technicians, and promoting design innovation. You will maintain a high-level overview of your team’s projects, ensuring that the design is delivered correctly and in accordance with Hydrock’s quality assurance procedures and health-and-safety responsibilities.
Management
You will take responsibility for all aspects of management including:
* Identifying team weaknesses/issues;
* Financial performance;
* Divisional task groups/design innovation;
Business Development
You will take responsibility for ensuring a sustainable stream of work through sales planning, project bids, tender interviews, client management, and business networking. You will be able to contribute to marketing materials and assist with business/sales planning and financial budgeting.
You will be set up for success if you have:
* MEng or BEng in civil or structural engineering.
* Chartered membership/ Associate membership of the IStructE/ ICE OR working towards Chartership.
* Self-motivated team player with good people skills.
* Strong communication, analysis, technical design, and drawing skills.
* Experience using analysis and design software packages.
* Ability to design through hand calculations.
* Understanding of BIM requirements up to and including Level 2.
* Developing marketing/business development skills.
* Someone ambitious, who believes in our values and wishes to be part of Hydrock and our success.
What's great about Hydrock, now Stantec
We are a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy of over 900 staff in 21 offices across the UK. Our driving motivation is to be a ‘Force for Good’, as it is our aim to improve the quality of people’s lives from our employees to our clients, through to the communities we work in and our planet as a whole through the work we do.
From the buildings that surround you, the roads and bridges you cross, all related to the infrastructure that we create, we aim to offer the most sustainable possibilities to shape the places, communities, and society that we live in through meeting our client’s needs.
Named as Building’s Engineering Consultant of the Year in 2023, we’re known for delivering outstanding sustainable projects for our communities, planet, and society.
* An opportunity to develop your soft skills, as well your technical skills.
* Excellent health benefits: 25 days of holiday (buy/sell up to five days), accrue 1 day extra every 2 years, with bonus holidays too!
* An earlier finish on Friday (4pm!).
* An opportunity to give back: “Day off for good cause” (on a workday).
* A huge range of flexible benefits, including climate perks and an EV car leasing scheme.
A place to feel included
We champion diversity, equity, and inclusion. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we commit to supporting our employees and ensuring we create a safe environment that nurtures you to perform at your best.
We consider all applications individually with the required qualifications and knowledge without regard to any of the protected characteristics. We would like to provide everyone with a fair selection, assessment, and employment experience so we ask to be made aware of any physical or neurodiverse condition within your application for which appropriate reasonable adjustments can be made by us.
Looking for the next steps?
Once you have completed your application through our careers site, we aim to review and respond to you as soon as your application’s been reviewed.
If shortlisted, a member of our Talent Acquisition Team will call you for an initial pre-screen by phone (typically 30 minutes) to help us assess your motivations and interest in the position and Hydrock, now Stantec.
If you progress following this telephone pre-screen, you will be invited to attend a formal interview by video conference (Microsoft Teams) or in our offices.
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