Associate Structural Director - Birmingham

Zodiac Recruitment; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading multidisciplinary engineering consultancy in Birmingham is seeking an experienced Associate Structural Director to lead their structural design team. This role involves overseeing exciting projects, managing a team, and developing strategic designs. The company offers a competitive salary, benefits, and a vibrant workplace culture, promoting work-life balance and team bonding activities.

Benefits

Bi-annual discretionary bonus

29 days annual leave excluding bank holidays

Agile working policy

Dress down Fridays

Qualifications

• Around 12 years of industry experience.
• Experience managing a team of engineers and technicians.
• Ability to share expertise with junior members.

Responsibilities

• Lead the structural design team on various projects.
• Develop designs and deliver high-quality reports.
• Manage cost-control and supervise project staff.

Skills

Structural Engineering

Project Management

Communication

Presentation

Problem Solving

Team Leadership

Education

Chartered Member of the ICE or IStructE

Tools

AutoCAD

Tekla

Revit

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Posted:

29.06.2025

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13.08.2025

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Job Description:

Salary Up to £70,000 Vacancy type Permanent Categories Structural Engineering

ASSOCIATE STRUCTURAL DIRECTOR

Location: Birmingham

Salary: £55-£70k (DOE)

The Company

Our client is a multidisciplinary engineering consultancy delivering industry leading engineering for over 50 years. With an incredible range of sector involvement spanning across residential, commercial, healthcare, industrial, sport & leisure and retail, they are often involved with projects often exceeding £300m in project value and have created a future and recession proof brand around this.

THE ASSOCIATE STRUCTURAL DIRECTOR ROLE

Due to their ongoing success, this is a great opportunity to join the company as an Associate Director, accompanying and leading their Structural design team on a wide variety of interesting and challenging projects in their Birmingham office. You will have a large involvement in both new build and refurbishment projects, working from early planning to the end delivery phase. Developing conceptual designs and being actively involved with all projects under your direction whilst delivering high-quality designs, drawings, and reports using engineering materials including concrete, steel, masonry, timber is the main aspect of your new role. Undertaking cost-control for your projects and compiling invoices, as well as supervising the staff under your direction, offering pro-active advice in relation to problem-solving issues. Developing realistic and competitive fee proposals whilst representing your new consultancy in design meetings is also an element of your role where you will be supported depending on your skillset.

What They Are Looking For

In order to succeed you will need to be an experienced Structural Engineer with around 12 years of industry experience and a Chartered Member of the ICE or IStructE. In terms of software capabilities, it is essential that you are capable of using AutoCAD, Tekla and Revit and are able to share your expertise with more junior members of the team. Importantly, you will need experience managing and checking the design of a group of engineers and technicians as well as having the communication and presentation skills to be a client facing consultant.

ON OFFER

In return, you will receive a highly competitive salary package with a basic salary in the £55,000 - £70,000 range. Furthermore, a bi-annual discretionary bonus is in place to reward your hard-work, capped at around a months’ salary and dependant on company financial success 29 days annual leave excluding bank holidays, exclusive of the Christmas break where the office temporarily closes down can be expected. Agile working with three days in the office, and two from home is company policy and dress down Fridays also encourage a modern working environment with a vibrant social culture where regular sporting, charity and company events take place in the local area. An enjoyable career is imperative to the culture your new company has created!

WHAT TO DO NEXT FOR THIS ASSOCIATE STRUCTURAL DIRECTOR OPPORTUNITY:

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