Structural Engineer

Position: Structural Engineer (Permanent)
White Label are very excited to be working with our longstanding client who are now keen to expand their team with a Structural Engineer.

You’ll be part of a rapidly growing business with a full order book, an excellent culture, a proud history and ambitious plans. The company specialises in bulk material handling and plant processing markets, offering services across sectors such as mining, tunnelling, quarrying, oil & gas, and more.

We are recruiting for a Structural Engineer to be an integral part of the team:
This role can will be based in either Sunderland OR Chorley depending on the distance of the individual (TBD)

Benefits

* Competitive salary £40k - £60k DOE

* 25 days holiday plus bank holidays – ops to buy more holidays

* Contribution towards eye test and glasses

* Online company discount benefits site including cinema tickets and gym membership discount

* Long Service Awards

* Employee recognition scheme

* Employee Assistance Programme

* Flexible Benefits Package

* 37 hours per week with a 1pm finish on a Friday

* Hybrid working opportunities

Your

Key Responsibilities

* Review project specifications and confirm scope of supply (including anticipated cost/ programme and the impact into the project team.

* Prepare Civil/ Structural Basis of Design summary prior to commencing engineering works.

* Produce analysis models to validate civil/ structural configurations, and to generate foundation loads.

* Ensure analytical models are transferring loads as expected, and that axial forces and moments are fixed/ released as stability (& connection design) demand.

* Produce hand calculations to validate connection design.

* Effectively communicate design requirements to the design team.

* Check Civil/ Structural drawing output (as required) to ensure that the information within reflects analytical models and calculations.

* Prepare Civil/ Structural calculation reports for inclusion into the project technical file.

* Support CAT 2/ CAT 3 checking requirements with any supplementary information as required.

* Attend sites as required, to conduct site and/ or condition surveys, and prepare reports on findings thereafter.

* Attend project design/ model reviews as required, supporting interfacing and tolerancing where applicable.

* Update Project Engineer and Head of Civil/ Structural on progress against task on a weekly basis, Highlighting any blockers or foreseen issues as/ when they become evident.

* Responsible for identifying any (internal/ external) changes to civil/ structural scope and escalating to the Project Engineer to capture via the DCN process.

* Deliver works in alignment with the business’ ISO 9001 processes and templates as controlled within the Quality Management System (COS).

* Identification, and escalation, of all civil/ structural Technical Queries (TQ) that occur on the project.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Minimum BEng (Hons) in Engineering (preferably Civil or Structural Engineering).

Experience in a Civil/ Structural engineering field.

Knowledge of the construction & process industries and applicable standards.

Ability to use structural analytical software unaided - STAAD Pro or TEKLA Structures.

Understanding of load cases and combinations, and able to deduce structures are behaving as intended through calculation or analysis.

Experience of good time management in a project delivery environment.

Strong attention to detail and committed to quality performance/ output.

Strong communicator with internal and external customers alike, with good presentation skills.

If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, please apply