Senior Structural Engineer – Client‑Facing Design (Colchester)

American Society of Civil Engineers; Colchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Temp All StaffingRecruiting a Senior Structural Engineer to join their Colchester team on a full-time, permanent basis. The role is client-facing and involves delivering a range of structural projects and procurement methods, with occasional travel.

You will help deliver design and coordination across disciplines, manage engineers and technicians, and ensure timely, high-quality project information including calculations and drawings, while prioritising safety and client expectations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in civil or structural engineering.
• Proven working experience in structural engineering.
• Proficient with AutoCAD.
• Decisive with excellent critical thinking skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver innovative, sustainable, efficient, safe, practical and intelligent structural engineering solutions on all projects and other activities, appropriate to the stage and type of project.
• Assist in the day to day management of engineers and technicians to produce complete, coordinated and high-quality project information (calculations, drawings, specifications and other documents) on time and on budget to meet agreed deadlines.
• Undertake multi-discipline design & coordination activities with all relevant members of the design team.
• Ensure reviews are conducted sufficiently in advance of all deadlines, such that any necessary amendments can comfortably be completed prior to issue as agreed.
• Ensure all designs are thoroughly checked independently by other engineers, and ensure all errors are corrected prior to issue of the documents.
• Ensure Health and Safety is considered at all stages of the design process such that the designs produced minimise risk during construction while exceeding the client/architects expectations.
• Ensure that adequate notes are added to drawings so that all unusual risks, that cannot be eliminated from the design, are highlighted to the contractor, and any specific methods of working or sequencing are described clearly.
• To liaise with Architects, clients and the rest of the design team, to ensure that efficient and integrated structural solutions are produced on all projects, which are sensitive to the architectural intent.

Skills

AutoCAD

Critical thinking

Decisive

Education

Bachelor's degree in civil or structural engineering

Job description

Temp All StaffingRecruiting a Senior Structural Engineer to join their Colchester team on a full-time, permanent basis. The role is client-facing and involves delivering a range of structural projects and procurement methods, with occasional travel.

You will help deliver design and coordination across disciplines, manage engineers and technicians, and ensure timely, high-quality project information including calculations and drawings, while prioritising safety and client expectations.