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