Principal Structural Engineer

Position: Principal Structural Engineer (Permanent)
Role:
Principal Structural Engineer

Location:

Manchester

Salary: c £70K (Depending on Experience)

Responsible for solutions, design deliverables and technical standard for structural designs

Job Description

* Ensure design team produce design deliverables that satisfy safety and quality requirements.

* Approve design deliverables, DRAs, reports and specifications

* Identify appropriate and efficient design solutions from scopes and site visits and communicate these to client and project team

* Direct and develop engineers, CAD technicians and graduates.

* Guide design in compliance with relevant technical, professional and water company standards.

* Ensure project change for design packages is fully implemented and recorded.

* Ensure work is undertaken using formal processes and procedures.

* Estimate hours required for design packages

* Attend and present designs at ALM, KM meetings and similar

* Review, interpret and brief standards, procedures and changes to them

* Undertake the role of Professional Head for discipline and Responsible Engineer/CRE for specific projects

* Provide key technical guidance for projects and tenders and ensure continuous improvement of technical standards.

Experience Required

* 10 years’ structural design experience at senior or principal engineering level

* Significant structural design experience within one or more of the following regulated industries:

* Rail, Water, Oil and gas, Nuclear, Highways, Bridges

* Graduate or HND

* Good level IT

* Chartered engineer