Principal Building Structures Engineer

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Principal Building Structures Engineer

Requisition

We have a fantastic opportunity for a permanent Principal Building Structures Engineer to join our Advisory team within Consulting - a vibrant, inclusive community that celebrates our differences and makes a real impact across the UK.

With shared office space in Birmingham, Telford, Manchester, Stafford, Sheffield and Bristol, we welcome applications from Senior Engineers across these regions.

As the Principal Building Structures Engineer you will act as a technical team leader, providing advice, guidance, and supervision as appropriate to the delivery of projects within the Built Environment Structural Engineering portfolio, operational managers, clients, and suppliers.

You will manage or influence the actions of technical teams regardless of office location, project, or account, including the multidisciplinary environment and to undertake the people manager role when required by the business.

You will work with other technical leads within the Built Environment practice to engender a quality culture in the practice with staff owning their assigned deliverables and wanting to deliver right‑first time. Whilst in the role, the individual is expected to develop their technical and professional skills to a level approaching subject matter expert.

• To function as a technical team leader, providing advice, guidance, and supervision as appropriate to technical teams, operational managers, clients, and suppliers.
• Leading the preparation and checking of designs, calculations, drawings, specifications, reports, technical papers, and other documentation as part of the production of scheme deliverables that satisfy the overarching criteria of quality, cost and programme including compliance with regulatory and statuary.
• Contribute to the commercial success of the projects within the Built Environment Structural Engineering portfolio, monitoring budgets and managing the costs associated with the production of deliverables.
• Liaising with client and supplier representatives at peer level and higher, including presenting proposals.
• Significantly contributing to and being accountable for technical input where required for work winning function.
• Site visits on a visiting basis to assist with project delivery or work winning.
• Assuming the role of people manager when required by the business.

• Developed experience and expertise within relevant technical fields, gained in a Senior Engineer role or equivalent.
• Incorporated or Chartered status or an equivalent professional licence, gained through the professional institution to which the individual is aligned.
• Applies engineering theory and principles to complex or ambiguous situations, where concepts need to be adapted to reach the correct outcome.
• Knowledge, understanding and experience of design and specification process with ability to manage others. Demonstrates a full understanding of the project scope and acts as Design Team Lead for both simple and complex projects.
• Experienced with relevant software and similar analytical tools. Good ability to check work produced by others and able to validate and approve the use of new tools.
• Excellent knowledge of suppliers and the services they provide, maintained through regular contact.
• Demonstrates an excellent understanding of CDM and risk assessment. Experienced in the management and communication of hazards and risks on projects and ensures appropriate risk mitigation and transference has been applied. Can function as Principal Designer Built Environment Structural Engineering projects.
• Supervisory and people manager skills. Capable of managing or influencing the actions of technical teams regardless of office location, project, or account, including the multidisciplinary environment and to undertake the people manager role.
• Excellent oral communicator, able to present arguments and ideas very well to peers, more senior colleagues, and clients. Can deliver internal training workshops and presentations to clients.

• Exceptional personal development, training and progression plans, designed to allow…