Protective Design Engineer; Structural​/Blast Engineering

Overview

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Our risk, security and resilience practice has helped organisations to understand their exposure to threats and make better risk-informed decisions since it was formed in the mid-1990s. Our team of experts are trusted advisors to private and public-sector clients, providing strategic risk management, technical risk assessment, operational planning, security engineering and counter-terrorism design measures that suit their business needs. Our team apply their knowledge, critical thinking and experience to help our clients to understand and anticipate what could go wrong, and we help with finding better solutions to ensure that risks are effectively managed and controlled.

Our team has consistently delivered high-quality advisory and engineering services to clients across a range of markets and industries, including Rail, Energy, Data Centres, Highways, Healthcare, Property and Scientific research facilities.

You will join Arup as a Consultant working in our protective design engineering team with a focus on sustainable development across a range of market and industries. The types of projects you will be involved range from advisory to engineering solution based blast engineering and hostile vehicle mitigation across a range of project lifecycle stages (such as research & development, feasibility to concept and detailed design).

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective- in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas. You will have the opportunity to do socially useful work that has meaning - to Arup, to your career, to our members, and to the clients and communities we serve.

• Utilise your knowledge of mainstream structural engineering design practice and develop your understanding of how to model such structures against transient dynamic loading
• Provide technical input across a broad range of projects across the resilience, security and risk practice
• Support the preparation of threat and vulnerability risk assessments for malicious threats (including terrorism, crime and civil disruption)
• Develop coherent, risk-based security strategies and integrate protective design and/or blast engineering measures from concept through detailed design to construction
• Carry out blast modelling using engineering software including computational fluid dynamic modelling and finite element methods
• Undertake the structural blast engineering design of a wide range of structures in common and novel engineering materials
• Undertake the façade blast engineering design of a wide range of glazed and non-glazed façade systems
• Undertake the design of Hostile Vehicle Mitigation measures

Is this role right for you?

We are seeking talented structural engineers who have a broad knowledge of structural engineering design and an interest in specialising in resilient structural design, to join our team but possibly to be deployed to projects being led from other centres and to further the development of our blast engineering services globally. Arup has one of the most significant protective design teams globally, with teams in London, Manchester, New York, San Francisco, Melbourne and Singapore working together as one global team.

Unlike traditional codified design, blast engineering requires a very different approach to the design but requires a designer’s empathy with regard to aesthetic, form and function of any proposed facility. As such, this is a great opportunity for an existing practitioner to build their professional and tactical position in the industry, or for a talented structural engineer to provide strategic input and undertake first-principles design as traditional forms of mainstream structural engineering design are increasingly being automated and undertaken by code-compliant software.

The successful candidate will be able to…