Senior Structural Engineer

Arcadis; West of England; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Structural Engineer to join our UK Structural team within the Resilience Global Business Area. The role covers full design across water and energy sectors and involves leading small teams on challenging projects focused on sustainable design.

You will work with a range of disciplines, develop digital models, and contribute to bids while mentoring junior staff and advancing your technical and career development within Arcadis.

Qualifications

• Honours degree and Chartered/Incorporated status with ICE or IStructE.
• Experience with Eurocodes for concrete and steel design.
• Proficiency in ROBOT, TEDDS, MasterSeries or similar software.
• Experience with 3D design tools (REVIT, Navisworks).
• Design experience on civil structures, buildings and soil/structure interfaces.
• Experience leading small teams and coordinating with technicians.

Responsibilities

• Do and supervise project structural analysis, design and digital modelling.
• Do and supervise preparation of design models, calculations and reports.
• Ensure compliance with procedures for safe, sustainable, innovative work.
• Lead small structural teams and learn from peers.
• Collaborate across disciplines to influence project success.
• Deliver project work with Arcadis Global Design Centres.
• Contribute to bidding, budgeting, scheduling and risk assessment.

Skills

Structural analysis

Eurocodes

3D modelling

Project leadership

Independent inspections

Education

Honours degree

Chartered with ICE/IStructE

Tools

ROBOT

TEDDS

MasterSeries

REVIT

Navisworks

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description

We are seeking a motivated Senior Structural Engineer to join our dynamic UK Structural team within our Resilience Global Business Area. The projects our team are involved in cover full design across the water & energy sector amongst others which can range from small technical challenges to large/complex multidisciplinary projects with a focus on sustainable design.

We welcome individuals who are confident to stretch their structural ability to bring a flexible and broader skillset to Arcadis and we will support your technical development, where required, and mentor your professional and career development.

In Engineering, you'll create some of the world’s most iconic and ground-breaking structures and spaces that transform the world around us, from making journeys easier to opening up public places that bring people together.

Our Resilience team works to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities

You will own the responsibility on small to medium structural projects and sections of larger schemes to carry out the following for Arcadis:

• Do and supervise project structural analysis, design and digital modelling
• Do and supervise the preparation of design models, calculations and reports
• Compliance with company procedures to produce safe, sustainable, innovative technical work guided by your Principal Engineers and Structures team Directors
• To learn quickly from your technical peers and brief/lead small structural teams
• Work and communicate proactively within project teams and with other design discipline peers (e.g. geotech, hydraulic, M&E, environment etc) to positively influence success of the structural inputs and project as a whole
• Deliver your project work with and through Arcadis Global Design Centres
• For the structural demands of a project input to bidding, assessment and control of budget, timescales and risk evaluation (reputational, commercial and CDM)
• Maximise the opportunities within Arcadis to develop your career

Qualifications & Experience

What you will require [and preferably have] to successfully carry out your role with Arcadis will be:

• An honours degree and Chartered/Incorporated (or ready for Professional review in 2026) status with ICE or IStructE
• Structural analysis and design skills in several materials to Eurocodes – particularly concrete and steel [and design for precast/prefabricated structures] sufficient to carry out more involved work yourself or manage and check more straightforward work of others
• Experience with ROBOT, TEDDS, Masterseries or similar structural software
• Experience [and capability] with 3D digital software (REVIT, Navisworks or similar)
• Design experience of civil engineering structures, buildings and the soil/structure interface
• Experience in design teams and managing inputs from technicians and juniors in small teams
• An enthusiasm for and track record of broad and innovative design experience, using new technologies and with a focus on reduced embedded eCO2
• Experience of carrying out independent structural inspections and assessments on site and producing supporting reports

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.