Structural Engineering Director - Specialist Teams Lead

Structural Engineering Director - Specialist Teams Lead

We are interested in hearing from you if you have the skill, experience and passion to support our growth in the delivery of technically challenging projects.

We invite you to bring your expertise and enthusiasm to a newly created role to lead our Specialist Teams who are a key part of our UK Building Structures Team. Our Specialist Teams work across the core Ramboll markets with a growth opportunity presented by our mounting portfolio of projects in our Defence and Government sectors.

The role will include leadership of our seismic and advanced engineering teams who specialise in;

• Seismic design and analysis
• Advanced Engineering Simulation
• Point cloud processing

As Specialist Teams Lead, you will have technical and commercial accountability for these teams, report into one of our Regional Heads of Department and support our other Directors across our UK Building Structures Team to strengthen our reputation and offering in our growth sectors.

To succeed in this role, you must have a broad technical grounding and understanding across our specialist areas alongside being client focused, with a strong ability to simplify and communicate complex ideas in plain language. Are you our new Director?

As a new Director in UK Building Structures, you will be part of a dynamic team of over 180 engineers and technicians, working on a range of projects, with a in depth focus on technical delivery and an excellent understanding of client care.

Our specialist teams work from multiple office locations and as such this will be a national role with occasional requirement for travel. We promote home and hybrid working however candidates will be required to travel into one of our key office locations, which include Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Chester, London, Leeds, Manchester and Southampton.

We offer a supporting and collaborative culture and environment, in which you can develop and grow in your role. For the right candidate there is the opportunity to progress rapidly, with increasing ownership of client relationships and leadership of our most complex projects. Working with leading architects we are recognised for our bold innovative approach, that is underpinned by our Scandinavian design heritage and foundation ownership.

Finally, we enjoy what we do! And are looking for naturally curious and personable people to join and strengthen our team.

• Provide leadership and line management to our specialist seismic and advanced engineering teams (currently 5 engineers)
• Plan and manage the growth of our specialist teams
• Develop our specialist teams to support the growth aspirations of the business; including in the Defence and Government sectors
• Accountable for the technical and commercial performance of the specialist teams including reporting to the UK Structures Leadership team
• Responsible for increasing Ramboll’s technical capability and reputation in specialist fields
• Provide a direct linkage between the specialist teams and the project delivery teams
• Act as client liaison to simply explain high complexity or technically challenging work undertaken by your team
• Develop client business relationships through building trust and reputation for technical excellence
• Represent Ramboll at external client meetings responding to their requirements and needs
• Manage the day-to-day activities in the team, both from a commercial and technical perspective
• Develop and agree structural concepts, design philosophies and undertake inception and peer reviews
• Take ownership as Structural lead or Design Lead on our complex and specialist projects

• Educated to a degree level or equivalent in structural / civil engineering
• Chartered with the IStruct
  
  E, ICE or international equivalent
• Demonstratable experience at Associate Structural Engineer level or above
• An excellent communicator capable of explaining complex engineering principles in plain language, verbally, in writing and through sketching
• Great with people, diverse in your outlook and with something different to…