As the opportunity develops, you will have the scope to take increasing responsibility for your own business unit, including its strategy, client base, project pipeline, recruitment, and team development.

Building Your Own Business Unit

For an individual with the ambition to take the opportunity further, the longer-term objective is to establish and lead a new business unit within the consultancy.

You will have the freedom to develop a proposition that reflects your own experience, relationships, and understanding of the market.

This could involve:

• Building a team around an established client network.
• Developing a new sector or geographical market.
• Expanding an existing area of technical expertise.
• Developing new client relationships and revenue streams.
• Recruiting and mentoring your own team.
• Establishing the strategy and identity of your business unit.
• Taking responsibility for its commercial performance and growth.
• Working with the wider leadership team to shape the future of the consultancy.

The expectation is not simply that you will manage an existing team. You will have the opportunity to build something, backed by an established platform.

Succession & Ownership

A particularly important aspect of this opportunity is the consultancy's longer-term succession plan.

The founding partners are looking to gradually transition ownership and leadership of the business to the next generation.

For the right person, this creates a potential pathway: Associate Director / Technical Director → Business Unit Leader → Future Owner

The precise structure and timing will depend on the individual and the development of the business, but there is a genuine intention to create a pathway towards ownership for people who demonstrate the leadership, commercial performance, and entrepreneurial drive to take the business forward.

This makes the role particularly suited to someone who may have reached a point in their career where becoming a future business owner is a genuine ambition, but who does not want to start from scratch.

About You

We are looking for an experienced structural engineer and business leader who combines strong technical credibility with a genuine appetite for growth and entrepreneurship.

You are likely to have:

• Significant experience within structural engineering consultancy.
• A strong technical background and professional credibility.
• Experience operating at Associate Director, Technical Director, Director, or equivalent level.
• An established network of industry contacts and clients.
• A demonstrable ability to develop and maintain client relationships.
• A commercial mindset and understanding of how engineering businesses grow.
• Experience winning work and developing a sustainable project pipeline.
• Leadership and mentoring experience.
• The ability to build, motivate, and develop high-performing teams.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• The confidence to operate at senior level with clients and stakeholders.
• An entrepreneurial outlook and desire to build something of your own.

Most importantly, you will be someone who wants to build.

You may already have a strong client network, a particular sector specialism, a geographic market you want to develop, or simply the ambition to create and lead a business within an established consultancy.

What’s on Offer

This opportunity offers a combination that is rarely available within the structural engineering market:

• A senior position within an established and highly respected consultancy.
• The support and resources of an existing business.
• Significant autonomy to develop your own area of the business.
• Flexibility around location, sectors, and market focus.
• The opportunity to build your own team and client base.
• Direct involvement in the strategic development of the wider consultancy.
• A genuine route into business unit leadership.
• A longer-term pathway towards ownership and succession.
• The opportunity to build significant personal and commercial value within an established platform.

The Ideal Candidate

This role will suit someone who has reached a point in their career where technical delivery alone is no longer enough.

You may be an experienced Associate Director or Technical Director who has developed a strong client following and is looking for the opportunity to take greater ownership.

Alternatively, you may already be operating at Director level and be looking for a route towards equity and eventual ownership without the risks and infrastructure challenges associated with starting a consultancy from scratch.

What matters most is your ambition, relationships, commercial mindset, and desire to build.

If you have the network and capability to generate work, the leadership skills to build a team, and the ambition to ultimately own and lead a business, this represents an opportunity to shape the next chapter of an already successful consultancy.