Senior Structural Engineer

Senior Structural Engineer
Slough
£Negotiable plus benefits

Project Centre, part of Marston Holdings, is a leading design, engineering, and landscape architecture consultancy whose highly talented people are passionate about creating places that are attractive, innovative, sustainable, and safe. Our approach to integrated design produces award winning results that have won international recognition and named CIHT's Employer of the Year in 2021. Led by a forward-thinking management team we work together in multi-disciplinary teams that provide services that are well thought-out and sustainable.

We are currently looking for a Senior Structural Engineer to join our team based at our Slough office. You will join a vibrant team and work on major prestigious projects within London and across the UK, enabling you to advance your career, whilst giving you the freedom to achieve personal growth and development. We will provide you with the opportunities to enable you to succeed and support you to reach your potential.

We recognise our greatest strength is the people we employ, and we are committed to developing talent and providing staff with the skills and knowledge they need to not only do their job well now, but to equip them for life as their careers unfold. Our staff say our people and our diversity are our biggest strengths and our Equality and Inclusion Group and Women's Network are ensuring that inclusion is at the heart of our policies, processes, and practices. As standard we offer flexible working to everyone and the ability to work remotely when needed. Project Centre is a people focused organisation. We care about our colleagues and part of that is to help every employee to achieve a healthy work-life balance.

If you aspire to really making a difference and want to work with great colleagues whilst advancing your career, then Project Centre could be the place for you.

The position itself will include, but not be limited to:

• Development and delivery of concept, preliminary & detailed highway structure designs
• Preparation of calculations, written reports and checking of drawings
• Complex structural and data analysis and checking of junior colleagues' work
• Providing technical guidance and leadership to junior colleagues
• Supporting less experienced team members to allow them to achieve their full potential
• Planning and management of project tasks and teams
• Development of project task budgets and programmes and delivering to these targets
• Attending client meetings and liaising with clients and other stakeholders
• Planning and undertaking of site visits, inspections and investigations as required
• Taking an active role in the implementation of CDM duties on projects
• Adhere to PCL Quality Assurance, Health & Safety, Environmental and Sustainability systems and procedures.
• Actively pursue on the job and formal training opportunities that complement PCL business needs and your personal development plan.
• Utilising client's bridge management systems (structures databases)

Our ideal candidate will have but not limited to:

• have experience working in a design team environment
• have a Master's degree in Civil or Structural Engineering
• be professionally qualified (IEng or CEng) or nearing Chartered status in Civil or Structural Engineering
• be technically strong with a background in steel and concrete bridge design and assessment
• understand the underlying principles behind design and assessment standards
• have a proven record supporting the delivery of detailed designs and assessment of highway bridges and structures
• be adept at working within a team environment and have experience across a range of engineering structures
• be self-motivated with good interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• possess strong analytical ability and a solid understanding of engineering fundamentals and current technical standards
• appreciate the commercial requirements of projects and have experience supporting the development of budgets and programmes
• understand basic structural concepts and the principles of highway structures engineering
• communicate effectively and professionally with the design team, clients and contractors
• understand Health & Safety requirements and CDM duties
• have sound computer skills on the Microsoft Office package including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• have a working knowledge of AutoCAD

In return for your hard-work and commit:

• £Negotiable and subject to experience
• 25 days annual leave per annum plus Bank Holidays
• Private health
• Paid professional subscription
• Flexible Working Policy