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Lead Structural Engineer

Employer
Portakabin
Location
York
Salary
£30,000 - £60,000 per year
Closing date
Aug 19, 2022

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Specialty
Structural Engineering
Position Type
Engineer, Staff Engineer
Organization Type
Firm, Consulting Engineering
Working within the Central Design & Engineering team to be the leading structural engineering and technical authority covering the entire Portakabin product range across all of our Business Units. Leading and developing structural design philosophies and tools that can be used by our commercial teams to demonstrate that all buildings designed and installed by Portakabin are compliant in use.

Maintaining a leading role in the design and development of new product platforms, whilst continuing to develop existing products, working with other team members in accordance with agreed Product Development programmes.

The role also involves a coaching and mentoring element to help further the career development of other engineers from early apprentices to graduate and more experienced engineers showing a key competence and willingness to develop their structural engineering knowledge within the business.

Role Details
  • Salary: £55-60,000 per annum plus 10% OTE - 20% Max bonus
  • Role based: York, YO32
  • Contract type: Permanent
  • Annual leave: 25 plus bank holidays

Role Responsibilities
  • Working with the Technical Product Manager and following an agreed Product Strategy and contributing to develop design and structural philosophies for the specifications for new products and projects.
  • To design new, and develop existing, products and accessories in accordance with an agreed Product Development programme.
  • To design and direct experimental test work to prove design concepts, in-practice for both in-house and in-conjunction with external organisations and independent approval or test bodies.
  • Prepare validation documentation which may include, for example, calculations and test reports for internal and/or external substantiation of design solutions.
  • Maintain an effective level of knowledge of current technological developments and identify and analyse opportunities for new technologies and use of materials within the business.
  • Working with Production Engineering, Logistics and Purchasing to develop robust supply chains and effective production processes for the developed design solutions and monitoring and control product costs and specific project development costs.

Benefits & Opportunities
  • Option to buy 5 days of annual leave
  • Working flexibly principles
  • Contributory pension
  • Annual bonus of 5% - 10% OTE
  • A range of dedicated health and wellbeing services
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • A chance to give back to your community with an annual Volunteering Day Off
  • We offer Company Sponsored Development relevant to role
  • There is also great opportunity for career progression within Portakabin. Roughly one third of our roles are filled by internal candidates!

Our Ideal Candidate

We are looking for someone who:
  • Is degree educated (or equivalent) in a relevant engineering discipline, holds Chartered Engineer status
  • Holds professional registration with a relevant organisation and can demonstrate Continual Professional Development
  • Experience producing structural calculations packages manually or using recognised software packages
  • Experience in understanding and application of Eurocodes and other structural design philosophies and standards
  • Analyses numerical and verbal data with the ability to probe further and make rational judgements
  • Focuses on customer needs and satisfaction, setting high standards for quality and quantity.
  • Makes prompt, clear decisions; takes initiative and acts with confidence under own direction

Even if you do not match all of our `ideal' criteria we would still be very keen to receive your CV as we love developing our people and may feel that you could be developed into this role.

About Portakabin

As innovators in the science of building, we provide modular buildings for hire and sale, as well as supplying refurbished buildings and construction site accommodation. We deliver building solutions for organisations of any size, in sectors ranging from manufacturing, education and health to transport, utilities and construction.

Portakabin remains in the ownership of the York based Shepherd family and now employs more than 1,750 people across ten European countries.

Apply Now!

We're keen to get someone started in this role. If you think this sounds like the ideal job for you, please apply as soon as possible as we may close this job advert early if we receive a high number of applications.

Read the full Role Profile here: Lead Structural Engineer - Role Profile

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