Civil / Structural Engineers
* Technical Director & Principal Engineer
* £65,000 - £75,000 (DOE).
* Company Pension
* 32 days inclusive of Bank Holidays
* Hybrid working
* Preston, Lancashire
THE COMPANY
Our client is a well established and reputable firm of Consulting Engineers with offices in Northern England. They have a varied and rewarding workload, covering building structures, education, nuclear, waste-water treatment and leisure projects. They employ around sixty permanent staff and due to an increase in workload, they urgently need to recruit Civil / Structural Engineers at Principal Engineer and Technical Director level.
THE POSITION
The Civil / Structural Engineers should have a strong technical base and have good experience to support our existing Technical Directors in cascading design requirements within the team.
The primary purpose of the role is to lead and co-ordinate CS&A design teams from scope to design, ensuring consistent quality and timeliness of output. In addition to providing technical oversight for projects, you would also support our team’s growth by supporting and encouraging the development of our engineers.
The Civil / Structural Engineers would be in the Preston office, minimum 3 days a week with the potential to work from home on the other two days. (You may be required to travel occasionally to site or attend design meetings at Client offices as required by the project).
Primary Responsibilities
The role requires an experienced Chartered Civil / Structural Engineer. You should be able to demonstrate leadership and the technical knowledge and experience to guide engineering teams in the following areas:
* Coordination of design outputs across all technical disciplines when necessary.
* Delivery of the design stage outputs of each project within the agreed timescale and budget.
* Represent the client in Design Reviews.
* Oversight of production of design documents which are cost effective and meet the requirements of the specification.
* Ensuring that company/client standard designs and design practices are utilised wherever possible.
* Agreement of the design cost budget and monitoring performance against the budget and providing forecast costs to completion for individual projects.
* Recording, monitoring and controlling design changes in order to maximise cost efficiency.
* Establishing working relationships with client staff and supply chain representatives to promote buildability and supply chain efficiency in design outputs.
* Contributing to ensuring a safe working environment for all staff.
* Maintaining a positive and solution-oriented approach to work, providing open and honest feedback.
* Being aware of the need to satisfy customer requirements with the aim of enhancing the customers’ perception and satisfaction.
* Taking all reasonable steps to ensure appropriate confidentiality.
* Supports and actively encourages continuous improvement and change management efforts.
Role Specific Responsibilities
Due to forth-coming retirement as well as our pro-active succession planning, we are looking for a strong Principal Engineer and Technical Director to particularly strengthen our technical skills and provide leadership to our engineering team.
ABOUT YOU
The Civil Structural Engineers (Principal Engineer / Technica Director) will:
* Be a Chartered Civil or Structural Engineer with minimum 10 years’ experience of running / leading projects.
* Have a broad knowledge of steel and concrete structures to British Standards and Eurocodes.
* Nuclear experience including decommissioning works
* An understanding or proficiency in the use of software such as STAAD PRO. TEDDS, AutoCAD, Excel is preferred
* A team player with good interpersonal and communication skills with ability to adapt to diverse working environments.
* With “can-do” attitude, capacity to learn from others as well as being assertive in presenting own technical works.
* Mentoring more junior engineers to be part of the delivery team
* Excellent IT skills
THE OFFER
The client offers the Civil / Structural Engineers a generous base salary of £55,000 - £65,000 for the Principal Engineer vacancy and between £65,000 - £75,000 for the Technical Director role. (DOE)