Civil/Structural Engineer-Hybrid

Jacobs; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented Civil/Structural Engineer to join their Defence Infrastructure team. This role involves tackling complex structural engineering challenges for the nuclear defence sector, focusing on dynamic load effects and safety culture. You will collaborate with a diverse team, enhancing your skills while delivering high-quality project outcomes. The company values work-life balance and offers flexible working arrangements, alongside a competitive benefits package, including medical cover and professional development support. If you are passionate about engineering and looking for a supportive environment to grow your career, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Free single medical cover

Enhanced parental leave pay

Employee assistance programs

Professional development reimbursement

Paid volunteering time

Charitable donations matching

Qualifications

• Good understanding of structural theory and proven problem-solving ability.
• Proven ability to manage projects, quality, and resources.

Responsibilities

• Inter-discipline project planning and delivery with a focus on quality.
• Providing guidance and support to junior engineers and technicians.

Skills

Technical design expertise

Project management

Problem-solving ability

Client relationship management

Education

MEng in Civil Engineering

Job description

About the opportunity:

The Civil/Structural team in Defence Infrastructure specialises in solving the most complex and technically demanding structural engineering problems for the nuclear defence industry.

Each project is unique, but typically involves consideration of dynamic load effects due to extreme hazards, including seismic, blast, and impact. We have to look beyond code checks to get a deeper insight into structural response and failure mechanisms, considering ductility, nonlinear buckling, and soil structure interaction. We work things out as a team, starting from first principles, researching methodologies, challenging assumptions, thinking outside the box, and constantly learning. This role provides a fantastic career opportunity, whilst developing your skills and experiences under the guidance and mentorship within our central systems engineering team.

Take your existing skills and join our team, locations can be hybrid, nationwide with main office locations, Glasgow, Reading, Bristol, Warrington. Site visits are expensed and occasional.

Responsibilities Include:

• Inter-discipline project planning, delivery and financial performance.
• Provision of technical quality and excellence of project deliverables.
• Providing technical and professional guidance, support and development of more junior engineers and technicians.
• Developing good working relationships with clients and other company departments.
• Adherence and contribution to business and quality management systems.
• Operational and design safety, and developing good safety culture.

We’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for us. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

Here's what you need:

• Good all-round technical design expertise using British and international standards, and/or Eurocodes.
• Proven ability to manage projects and preparation of project deliverables, including managing quality, budget, programme and resources.
• Good understanding of structural theory, with proven problem solving ability.
• Proven ability in preparation of bids and proposals, and developing good working relationships with clients.
• Good, accredited MEng degree in Civil Engineering or similar.
• You must be a UK National and able/willing to obtain SC level security clearance, which includes resident in the UK for the preceding 5 years.

Our Culture:

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business, and we genuinely believe that we all succeed by supporting one another through our culture of caring. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centered on inclusion and diversity.

We partner with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.