Principal Structural Engineer

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 Principal 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:

• Supervise project structural analysis, design and digital modelling
• Supervise the preparation of design models, calculations and reports
• Provide guidance on compliance with company procedures to produce safe, sustainable, innovative technical work.
• Provide technical guidance to peers and brief/lead structural project 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
• Manage Structural team deliverables on 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

• An honours degree and Chartered 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 check work of others
• Experience with ROBOT, TEDDS, Master series 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.