Structural Engineering Director - Specialist Teams Lead

We are interested in hearing from you if you have the skill, experience and passion to support our growth in the delivery of technically challenging projects.

We invite you to bring your expertise and enthusiasm to a newly created role to lead our Specialist Teams who are a key part of our UK Building Structures Team. Our Specialist Teams work across the core Ramboll markets with a growth opportunity presented by our mounting portfolio of projects in our Defence and Government sectors.

• Sequismic design and analysis
• Advanced Engineering Simulation
• Dynamics
• Blast
• Finite Element Analysis
• 3D computational design
• Point cloud processing

As Specialist Teams Lead, you will have technical and commercial accountability for these teams, report into one of our Regional Heads of Department and support our other Directors across our UK Building Structures Team to strengthen our reputation and offering in our growth sectors.

To succeed in this role, you must have a broad technical grounding and understanding across our specialist areas alongside being client focused, with a strong ability to simplify and communicate complex ideas in plain language. Are you our new Director?

• Provide leadership and line management to our specialist seismic and advanced engineering teams (currently 5 engineers)
• Plan and manage the growth of our specialist teams
• Develop our specialist teams to support the growth aspirations of the business; including in the Defence and Government sectors
• Accountable for the technical and commercial performance of the specialist teams including reporting to the UK Structures Leadership team
• Responsible for increasing Ramboll’s technical capability and reputation in specialist fields
• Provide a direct linkage between the specialist teams and the project delivery teams
• Act as client liaison to simply explain high complexity or technically challenging work undertaken by your team
• Develop client business relationships through building trust and reputation for technical excellence
• Represent Ramboll at external client meetings responding to their requirements and needs
• Manage the day-to-day activities in the team, both from a commercial and technical perspective
• Develop and agree structural concepts, design philosophies and undertake inception and peer reviews
• Take ownership as Structural lead or Design Lead on our complex and specialist projects

• Educated to a degree level or equivalent in structural / civil engineering
• Chartered with the IStruct
  
  E, ICE or international equivalent
• Demonstratable experience at Associate Structural Engineer level or above
• An excellent communicator capable of explaining complex engineering principles in plain language, verbally, in writing and through sketching
• Great with people, diverse in your outlook and with something different to bring to the table
• The role requires you to be able to obtain UK Government Security Clearance

• Demonstrable experience of leading technically complex projects
• Demonstratable evidence of leading projects with multiple technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Evidence of providing technical leadership to a team of structural engineers with specialist or niche skills
• A broad knowledge and technical understanding of;
• Structural seismic analysis and detailing to international and local codes of practice (e.g. European, American, New Zealand, etc.)
• Seismic assessment and retrofit of existing structures
• Dynamic and non-linear analysis
• Blast analysis and design
• Design codes, industry standards, and performance-based design approaches appropriate for safety critical industries
• Knowledge of structural engineering software and specialist finite-element analysis software (e.g. ETABS, CSI SAFE, ANSYS, DIANA etc.)
• Ability to approach engineering problems and develop solutions from first principles for situations that fall outside of codified methods
• Experience of managing staff working in coding languages is desirable (e.g. Python, JavaScript)

• Ambition to lead and grow a team
• Able to converge technical and non-technical viewpoints
• Able to…