Senior Structural Engineer

px Fairport (pxF) is a project delivery specialist offering full turnkey EPC and OEM solutions to the bulk material handling and plant processing markets. Our services cover the aggregates, processing, tunnelling, mining, quarrying, alternative fuels, waste-to-energy, ports, and food sectors, globally. With unrivalled industry expertise, pxF manages, specifies, engineers, designs, supplies, installs, operates, and maintains market leading equipment for complex material handling needs, guaranteeing performance excellence, reliability, and optimal operating costs.

We are now recruiting for a Senior Structural Engineer to join our Sunderland Office.

The primary purpose of the Senior Structural Engineer role is to design complex structures to the specified brief and produce the associated technical outputs e.g. calculations, analysis models, connection designs and structural reports.

You’ll be supported with personalised on the job training, coaching, mentoring and twice-yearly development and performance reviews to help maintain & develop your contributions and competence.

• Design and develop complex structures to the specified brief.
• Produce analysis models in accordance with company standards 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 required for stability and connection design.
• Produce calculations to validate connection design in accordance with company standards.
• Produce structural reports for inclusion into the project, following company standards.
• Prepare Civil/Structural Basis of Design summary prior to commencing engineering works.
• Manage technical outputs (calculations, analysis, reports, etc.) using company systems.
• Undertake peer reviews of colleagues’ work (calculations, analysis, reports, etc.).
• Check structural drawing output to ensure the information accurately reflects analytical models and calculations.
• Identify variations to contractual scope and raise them to the Project team.
• Identify and raise all civil/structural Technical Queries (TQ) on the project.
• Attend internal design review and scoping meetings.
• Attend client meetings as requested by the Project Engineer.
• Ensure design compliance with the project / task brief, relevant standards and regulations.
• Support CAT 2 / CAT 3 checking requirements with supplementary information as required.
• Carry out analysis of designs to improve safety, DfMA and functionality.
• Promote value engineering, standardisation, risk reduction and a right‑first‑time approach.
• Undertake site visits / condition surveys and prepare reports on findings to support successful delivery of projects.
• Support other areas of the business with information and guidance (steel weights, configurations, engineering time and concept designs).
• Provide support, guidance and mentorship to junior team members when required.
• Support rectification of any NCR raised against the department.
• Participate and contribute to lessons learned and continuous improvement meetings.
• Support the development of processes to improve efficiency and project delivery.
• Deliver work in alignment with ISO 9001 processes and templates as controlled within the Quality Management System (COS).
• Engage with the performance review process and take actions to address improvement areas.
• Drive overall departmental and business objectives year‑on‑year.
• Support the Structural Manager in departmental tasks when absent/unavailable.

• Degree qualified in Civil or Structural Engineering (minimum BEng).
• Chartered Engineer status (preferably ICE or IStructE).
• Knowledge of bulk material handling, conveyor systems and associated structures.
• Good knowledge of structural analytical software (STAAD Pro preferred).
• Good ability to interpret site investigation reports and identify implications.
• Excellent understanding of load cases and combinations, and ability to deduce that structures behave as intended.
• Good understanding of the design process and its documentation.
• Excellent knowledge of structural codes, standards and regulations.
• Excellent…