Senior Structural Engineer

MPI Limited; Horsham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering company is seeking a Senior Structural Engineer to join their team. This hybrid role located in Horsham requires significant experience in OHL structural design and offers opportunities for team leadership development. Candidates must be fluent in English and have a right to work in the UK. The role involves leading approval activities, ensuring project design outputs, and supporting safety assessments in a remote working environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in OHL structural design.
• Proven experience with Overhead Steel Lattice towers.
• Fluent spoken and written English.
• Ability to work in a remote team.

Responsibilities

• Lead approval activities on OHL Structural engineering deliverables.
• Support work acquisition and development activities.
• Create design deliverables for stakeholder confirmation.
• Ensure compliance with budget and programme.

Skills

OHL structural design

Team leadership skills

Safety by design assessments

Communication skills

Collaboration using software

Tools

PLS Tower design software

Job description

MPI is looking for a Senior Structural Engineer for our client based in Horsham and Glasgow. The role is a hybrid position with occasional travel to the nearest office.

Overview

This role suits a Senior Structural Engineer with significant experience in OHL structural design who is keen to help in the development of our team and grow their team leadership skills. The client provides HV OHL design supporting construction, procurement, and consultancy on a variety of projects within the sector. Although we are looking for a senior designer, training is planned for this individual to ensure your understanding of the local design requirements of our client. This role offers a hybrid work arrangement.

The Role

The Sr Structural Design Engineer will ensure the Transmission Tower structural assessment and design outputs are assigned, delivered against the allocated programme and budget. They will identify and implement delivery improvements in the team, including targeted staff development.

Typical responsibilities

• Lead approval activities on OHL Structural engineering deliverables across our team.
• Support work acquisition and development activities.
• Support safety by design assessments throughout the design process.
• Integrate and support the development of innovation within project solutions.
• Create design deliverables to confirm the outputs of the engineering studies to internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure, as far as practicable, that all assigned work is carried out in compliance with the agreed budget and programme.
• Keep up to date with all technical quality management procedures, developments and specifications related to the discipline work scope.

Expected

• Detailed experience of delivering Overhead Steel Lattice towers and other Transmission line structures, e.g. transmission poles and termination gantries.
• Awareness of key Health and Safety impacts on OHL construction contracts.
• Fluent spoken and written English language.
• Ability to work as part of a dispersed and remote team and be able to communicate through collaboration software such as Microsoft teams.
• Must have a right to work in the UK currently.

Desirable

• Proven experience in working on OHL Steel Transmission towers up to 400kV.
• Experience utilizing PLS Tower design software.
• Experience in working on Steel Lattice transmission tower lines.
• Experience of providing engineering inputs to OHL Construction activities including the planning and delivery of OHL Construction.