Senior Structural Engineer

Waterman Group; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A multidisciplinary consultancy is seeking an experienced Senior Structural Engineer to join their London team. The role involves creating innovative structural designs, ensuring health and safety, and collaborating with clients and architects on various projects. Candidates should possess a relevant engineering degree and chartership or work towards it. Benefits include competitive salary, extensive holiday, hybrid working arrangements, and strong support for training and career progression.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package with annual reviews

26 days holiday, rising to 31 with loyalty days

Hybrid working arrangements

Access to mentoring from industry experts

Fast-tracked career progression

Qualifications

• Chartered structural engineer or working towards chartership.
• Understanding of CDM Regulations and British Standards.
• Ability to convey complex information to various audiences.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on structural designs and analyze building structures.
• Deliver detailed designs, drawings, and specifications using 3D software.
• Liaise with architects and clients for effective structural solutions.

Skills

Creative structural design

Communication skills

Planning and organization

Education

Relevant civil or structural engineering degree

Job description

Are you an established SeniorStructural Engineer looking to take the next step in your career? Would you like to get involved with delivering some of the world's most exciting projects and join a dynamic, growing team who are at the forefront of sustainable design? If so, we want you to join our Structures team in London!

Responsibilities

You’ll be working collaboratively with the team to create structural designs and analyse building structures and will play a key role in the successful delivery of projects across their lifecycles, from inception to hand‑over and beyond. You’ll deliver detailed, innovative and creative designs, drawings, specifications and design guidance notes using 3D software packages and will craft high quality written reports for internal and external audiences, always keeping an eye on deadlines and accuracy. Working across boundaries as part of a fully integrated multidisciplinary team, you’ll have a great platform to present your ideas and designs. Ensuring health and safety and sustainability considerations are central to everything you do, you’ll liaise with architects, clients and the wider design team to create efficient and integrated structural solutions. You’ll also have the chance to develop your leadership skills by supporting junior members of the team and through the supervision of design staff, where you’ll provide learning input and verify their design calculations, drawings and specifications. Through our mentoring programme, you’ll have the opportunity to continue the development of your skills and experience and further hone your leadership capabilities by partnering with some of our most experienced engineers and business leaders.

Qualifications

• You’ve got a relevant civil or structural engineering degree
• You’ve achieved chartership, or are working towards becoming a chartered structural engineer
• You like to take an innovative and creative approach to structural design and are always eager to explore new techniques and ideas
• You have a great understanding of the CDM Regulations and designer’s responsibilities and are able to show experience of working with British Standards
• You’ve got excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to deliver complex and technical information to engineers and non‑engineers alike
• You’ve developed exceptional planning, organisational and time management skills, with the capability to balance tasks and prioritise to meet tight deadlines

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package with annual salary reviews
• 26 days holiday per year, rising to 31 days with loyalty days, plus bank holidays
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Fantastic training and development culture
• Access to mentoring support from industry experts
• Opportunity to play a key role in exciting and varied projects
• ICE Training Agreement
• Opportunity to be client facing and the chance to get involved with business development and marketing activities
• Fast‑tracked career progression for the right candidates

Waterman Group is a multidisciplinary consultancy providing private and public sector clients with sustainable solutions to meet the planning, engineering design and project delivery needs of the property, infrastructure, environment and energy markets.

Waterman Group is a Disability Confident organisation, committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy starting with our recruitment and selection process.

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