Ridge and Partners LLP
Senior Structural Engineer
Plymouth
Posted 18 days ago
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Overview
We are recruiting a Project or Senior Structural Engineer (role dependant on experience) to join our team based in Plymouth. You will work with an experienced team to provide a wide range of structural engineering services across a wide range of disciplines in property and construction.
Roles And Responsibilities
- Report to and take direction from the senior management personnel leading the discipline and office.
- Represent Ridge in an ‘external facing’ role, managing projects from inception to completion ensuring that deliverables are issued in accordance with the project programme, to the required quality standard and within budget and time allocation.
- Report on financial performance of projects and resourcing requirements to the senior management team and assist in the management of team resources required to implement the commercial and business direction of the team.
- Act as lead or sole designer as appropriate to the size and complexity of the project, responsible for outline scheme through to detailed design and production of technical deliverables.
- Carry out structural analysis and design in accordance with Eurocode suite of design codes, ensuring designs are economic, sustainable, efficient and buildable.
- Oversee the production of detailed design drawings.
- Undertake checking of calculation packages, drawings, specifications, reports, and other project deliverables, ensuring that our QA procedures are complied with.
- Supervise and mentor junior engineers, technicians, and apprentices within the team, playing an active role in their future development.
- Undertake surveys / inspections and produce high quality technical reports on findings, with appropriate recommendations, presenting these to the client where needed.
- Undertake existing building assessments, often including scoping intrusive investigations on site.
- Undertake site visits during construction to resolve site queries, monitor progress and provide advice to contractors.
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Skills And Experience
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- MEng, BEng, BSc & MSc or BSc with extensive post-graduate experience in a field relevant to structural engineering, ideally recognised by the Engineering Council.
- Chartered (or near chartered) and a Member or Graduate Member of either the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) or Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).
- Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English, including technical report writing skills.
- Ability to effectively communicate design concepts through clear sketches by hand and using digital tools.
- Demonstrable and sound experience in the design of structures in concrete, steel, masonry and timber.
- Experience with use of 2D/3D structural design packages such as TEKLA Structural Designer, TEDDS, Masterseries etc.
- Experience with Finite Element Design (ideally using SCIA Engineer) beneficial, but not essential.
- Experience working with Building Information Modelling (BIM) and within a 3D environment generally.
- Experience using AutoCAD and Revit beneficial, but not essential.
- Demonstrable experience working on projects of scale and complexity with all forms of construction.
- Be a collaborative, confident and ambitious team player, who is also able to work with minimal supervision and use own initiative.
- Good commercial awareness and demonstrable experience in ‘project running’.
- Have an awareness of sustainability in design and implementing sustainable options in preparation of structural designs.
- Hold a current UK driving licence.
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Skills
Structural Engineering
Project Management
Structural Analysis
Design Codes
Technical Report Writing
BIM
AutoCAD
Revit
Finite Element Design
Concrete Design
Steel Design
Masonry Design
Timber Design
Team Leadership
Sustainability
Communication