Principal Engineer (Structures)

Skanska UK Plc; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering design consultancy in the UK is seeking a Principal Engineer to join their team in delivering innovative solutions across various sectors. The role requires a degree in Civil Engineering, project management skills, and experience in BIM led design. An exciting opportunity to work within a flexible team dedicated to continuous improvement and excellence.

Qualifications

• Good working knowledge of Eurocodes and UK Industry Codes of Practice.
• Willingness to attend site visits and provide buildable solutions.
• Understanding of project budgeting and commercial/contracts.

Responsibilities

• Deliver innovative engineering solutions for small to large projects.
• Prepare detailed designs in compliance with relevant standards.
• Manage projects to deliver on time and within budget.

Skills

Engineering practice

BIM led design

Customer relationship management

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering

Chartered membership of a Professional body

Tools

Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis

SCIA Engineer

STAAD Pro

Job description

Skanska Technology Limited (STL) is an expanding in-house engineering design consultancy supporting projects across the Buildings, Civils (Temporary works), water, heavy industrial, power, and design and build sectors. Based in our Head Office in Leavesden, Hertfordshire, you'll join a flexible team and work across multiple sectors to support exciting projects.

Join our growing STL design team as a Principal Engineer and contribute to the delivery of innovative engineering solutions. You’ll be responsible for the technical delivery of a portfolio of small projects or of a larger project in the Buildings team, reporting to a Senior Project Engineer.

What you'll do:

• Sound approach to the application of engineering practice and enabling exploitation of new and advancing technology and continuous improvement.
• Preparation of outline & detailed design in accordance with the relevant design standards.
• Preparation of clear and well-structured design calculations, reports, drawings and other deliverables.
• Experience of BIM led design, and ability to use common structural design software tools such as Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis, SCIA Engineer or STAAD Pro.
• Manage the planning, direction and control of tasks, people and resources to deliver successful projects to agreed time and cost expectations.
• Prepare and control project budgets and have a high level of commercial and contractual understanding.
• Brief and coordinate the work of others to ensure the timely and technically robust delivery of project scope.
• Managing, building and developing excellent customer relationships.

What you'll bring to the role:

• Degree in Civil Engineering or a relevant qualification.
• Good working knowledge, understanding and experience of the applicable Eurocodes, UK Industry Codes of Practice and ability to mentor others in their application
• Willingness to attend site visits and work on buildable solutions.
• UK/EEC driving licence.
• Chartered membership of an appropriate Professional body.

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using [e-mail] if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: [e-mail]

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.

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