Structural Engineer

White Label are very excited to be working with our longstanding client who are now keen to expand their team with a Structural Engineer & Structrual Manager.

You ll be part of a rapidly growing business with a full order book, an excellent culture, a proud history and ambitious plans. The company specialises in bulk material handling and plant processing markets, offering services across sectors such as mining, tunnelling, quarrying, oil & gas, and more.

We are recruiting for a Structural Engineer and Structrual Manager to be an integral part of the team:
This role can will be based in either Sunderland OR Chorley depending on the distance of the individual (TBD)

Benefits

• Competitive salary £40k - £70k DOE
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays ops to buy more holidays
• Contribution towards eye test and glasses
• Online company discount benefits site including cinema tickets and gym membership discount
• Long Service Awards
• Employee recognition scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible Benefits Package
• 37 hours per week with a 1pm finish on a Friday
• Hybrid working opportunities

Your Key Responsibilities

• Review project specifications and confirm scope of supply (including anticipated cost/ programme and the impact into the project team.
• Prepare Civil/ Structural Basis of Design summary prior to commencing engineering works.
• Produce analysis models to validate civil/ structural configurations, and to generate foundation loads.
• Ensure analytical models are transferring loads as expected, and that axial forces and moments are fixed/ released as stability (& connection design) demand.
• Produce hand calculations to validate connection design.
• Effectively communicate design requirements to the design team.
• Check Civil/ Structural drawing output (as required) to ensure that the information within reflects analytical models and calculations.
• Prepare Civil/ Structural calculation reports for inclusion into the project technical file.
• Support CAT 2/ CAT 3 checking requirements with any supplementary information as required.
• Attend sites as required, to conduct site and/ or condition surveys, and prepare reports on findings thereafter.
• Attend project design/ model reviews as required, supporting interfacing and tolerancing where applicable.
• Update Project Engineer and Head of Civil/ Structural on progress against task on a weekly basis, Highlighting any blockers or foreseen issues as/ when they become evident.
• Responsible for identifying any (internal/ external) changes to civil/ structural scope and escalating to the Project Engineer to capture via the DCN process.
• Deliver works in alignment with the business ISO 9001 processes and templates as controlled within the Quality Management System (COS).
• Identification, and escalation, of all civil/ structural Technical Queries (TQ) that occur on the project.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Minimum BEng (Hons) in Engineering (preferably Civil or Structural Engineering).

Experience in a Civil/ Structural engineering field.

Knowledge of the construction & process industries and applicable standards.

Ability to use structural analytical software unaided - STAAD Pro or TEKLA Structures.

Understanding of load cases and combinations, and able to deduce structures are behaving as intended through calculation or analysis.

Experience of good time management in a project delivery environment.

Strong attention to detail and committed to quality performance/ output.

Strong communicator with internal and external customers alike, with good presentation skills.

Chartered Engineer (CEng, preferably ICE or IStruct

E) - For Manager role

If this sounds like something you d be interested in, please apply.