Senior Structural Engineer

Senior Structural Engineer

Job Description

Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for its employees? Mott MacDonald is a global consultancy whose people do exactly that. #LI-AA1

As the successful candidate, your day-to-day duties will include:

• Day to day management and mentoring of graduate engineers and technicians on project work
• Provide input and advise on the structural analysis and design of buildings including substructure, superstructure, primary and secondary elements in all major materials
• Undertake detailed engineering design, including concept, scheme, and detailed design
• Check, review, and comment on the structural engineering design of junior members of staff
• Environmental impact assessment of civil and structural engineering designs, including embodied carbon
• Responsible for liaising with external stakeholders, ensuring client satisfaction and pursuing and promoting opportunities with potential and established clients
• Provide a proactive and collaborative approach to clients to ensure the best solution is offered to meet their needs
• Developing, maintaining, and monitoring programmes for scheduling and reporting on deliverables across specific projects
• Maximising profitability of projects, monitoring against budget, reacting and anticipating potential problems and communicating in line with client expectations and change control procedures
• Demonstrating technical excellence in structural engineering, providing in depth knowledge whilst proactively supporting, coaching, and developing team members
• Ensure more senior staff are kept informed of important and relevant service/design decisions and the objectives of the company and the client are achieved.

Candidate Specification
For this role you will need to align with the majority (although not necessarily all) of the following criteria:

• Experience of delivering structural engineering designs on buildings projects across a range of sectors within a multi-disciplinary team
• Knowledge of the environmental aspects/impacts of civil and structural engineering designs, including embodied carbon
• The ability to liaise with, manage and report on the inputs of colleagues providing supporting services to the projects such as civil, geotechnical and fire engineering and contamination and acoustic consultancy including teams and colleagues working remotely and overseas
• Ability to successfully manage (to budget and deadline) projects portfolio ranging in size from £25,000 to over £10m and deal with potential issues that may arise
• Experience of using analytical/design software such as Tekla Building Designer, Robot, Etabs, Staad, Tedds and other design spreadsheets or tools
• Experience of specification preparation including the use of NBS Create or Chorus
• Experience managing projects in a client facing role and coordinating with other disciplines including architects
• Familiar with model authoring tools such as AutoCad, Revit, Civils 3D, CADS RC

Other desirable criteria:

• Familiar with information storage, management and collaboration tools such as SharePoint, Projectwise, 4P Viewpoint, ASite, Aconex, BIM 360, Navisworks, Revizto, Dalux etc
• Interest and experience of software packages and methods commonly used in digital delivery such as Revit, SketchUp, Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, Python etc.
• Ability to market services to develop business with new and existing clients
• Ability to demonstrate a thorough understanding of statutory, technical and environmental considerations and the ability to provide technical solutions to meet those obligations
• Experience in parametric and generative design would be a benefit
• Experience of business development activities, including networking and involvement in fee proposals, project bids and interviews
• Experience of undertaking building or infrastructure condition, defect or deterioration surveys and inspections and the preparations of reports
• Security clearance

We encourage applications from candidates looking for flexible working arrangements (including part-time) who can work from our Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle, Manchester, Altrincham or Liverpool offices with agile working from home offered.
Alignment with the Mott MacDonald core values of Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, and Excellence.

Job Profile
This is an exciting opportunity for a talented and highly-motivated chartered or near chartered structural engineer to join a large consultancy in a well-established yet still developing team, with the responsibility for the technical leadership and management of projects and developing great relationships with our clients.
You would be part of our Northern Division as part of a 45 strong structural team who are located across Manchester, Altrincham, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle, and Sheffield.

Our team delivers many projects that are important to the local community, as well as across the globe on national and international prestigious schemes. We currently have projects in the health, education, transport, commercial, high-rise residential, defence, sports and water sub-sectors ranging up to £500m in value, including the new terminal building at Leeds Bradford Airport, the new Anfield Road stand expansion for Liverpool Football Club the Albion Square mixed-use development in Hull and a major new expansion of Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax to name just a few.

This role will offer the successful candidate the opportunity to:

• Join a friendly and supportive team of engineers and other construction professionals in a vibrant multi-disciplinary office.
• Work with purpose and impact on a variety of challenging projects in a company that has strong values.
• Enjoy the support and opportunities of a truly global network of talented professionals.
• Be creative and broaden your capabilities.
• Advance your career within Mott MacDonald and within the built environment sector by managing and contributing to increasingly large, complex and challenging projects.

This is a long-term career appointment with the opportunity to advance to a more senior position within Mott MacDonald.
About the business unit
The Buildings and Cities Unit (BNC) has a major presence in Mott MacDonald's regional offices throughout the UK and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross-sector skills across five key Sectors; Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation and Water. We also provide local services to customers and technical leadership to the rest of the Group in these sectors.
How to apply
To apply for this role, please complete our 15-minute application via our website. Our talent acquisition coordinators aim to provide feedback within 5 working days with the outcome of your application. More information about our application process can be found here. If you have any questions regarding your application or the role, please reach out to the dedicated recruiter listed who will be more than happy to help.

Mott MacDonald is Work180 accredited which means we actively support and encourage women to join our work force!

Benefits we offer:

• Pension matched up to 7%
  
• Life insurance
• An annual professional institution subscription
  
• Continuous development opportunities because we want you to thrive
• Agile/flexible working because life isnt 9-5
• Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies for parents and care givers
• Annual company performance bonus scheme Subject to company performance
• Flexible benefits that suit you, including cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans .
• The opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our social outcomes
  

Other Information
Equality, diversity and inclusion
We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.

If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like us to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at and we will talk to you about how we can assist.

Agile working
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments. We embrace agility, flexibility and trust.

More about Mott MacDonald
Were a global engineering, management and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.
A fundamental part of this is respecting each persons differences and striving to meet their needs.
Our values: progress, respect, integrity, drive, excellence