Senior or Principal Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Manage workload and lead day-to-day operation of engineering teams.
• Competence in both structural and geotechnical design.
• Produce high quality design solutions in a timely manner while ensuring compliance with current regulations and best practices.
• Design highly complex schemes (Cat3) and check moderately complex schemes (Cat2).
• Provide supervision, training and mentoring to Graduate and Design Engineers.
• Act as key point of contact and technical support for sales team and clients.

• Minimum 3 years experience designing temporary works in accordance with relevant standards.
• Drive continuous improvements and contribute to the technical team collaboratively.
• Ability to organise own time and manage time of others.
• Willingness to improve existing ways of working.
• Proficiency in Autodesk Revit & AutoCAD design software (Wallap, CADs) and MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams).
• IEng desirable but not essential (dependent on seniority).
• Full driving license.

• Competitive salary.
• Salary sacrifice pension.
• Company car.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Additional holiday purchase scheme.
• Free tool hire.
• Life assurance cover 3x salary.
• Share save scheme.
• Eye care vouchers.
• Recommend a friend scheme.
• Learning & Development – commitment to upskilling and developing our people, structured in‑house training available alongside external training where required.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Long service recognition.
• My VP discounts – discounts and rewards on thousands of well‑known brands.
• Discounts on HP products.
• EE mobile contract discount offers.
• Gym discounts.
• Health Shield (discounted premiums on health care cash plan).
• Regit Assist 24/7 accident helpline – free joining.

Vp plc is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills.