Job Description

Edinburgh

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Contract:

Permanent

Salary:

Competitve

Our Edinburgh office is situated in the heart of the bustling city centre, with panoramic views of the castle, gardens and Princes Street below. The office is always alive with activity as it houses a 65-strong team consisting of mechanical, electrical, civil, structural and support teams. The office's open plan kitchen and staff break out area often plays host to our team's socialising time, whether it's over a morning coffee, lunch or after work unwind.

Purpose

As a senior member of the department your responsibilities will include the delivery and project management of the Structural and Civil Engineering Design on your projects. You shall also be responsible for maintaining and improving the quality and efficiency of the design work prepared by the Structural Engineering department. You shall have supervisory role over junior engineering staff assigned to your projects and shall assist in their personal development.



You will act as the lead consultant on projects providing C&S representation and input at key stages of the project to other members of the project team as well as ensuring that the C&S requirements are communicated and delivered within Harley Haddow.



The position requires excellent communication skills and a proven ability to work collaboratively with colleagues, technicians and external parties. You will be representing Harley Haddow through direct contact with clients and other design team members on your projects.



You will be encouraged to attend lectures, seminars and other relevant industry functions as well as training courses with prior approval of the Departmental Director in order to progress you're learning and career goals.



You will be a Chartered Engineer or near chartership with either the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) or the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE).

Roles and Responsibilities

A desire to build on your existing experience and knowledge of civil and structural engineering design and mentor junior staff Developing Structural/Civil Engineering designs for projects through various project stages autonomously with oversight from senior staff Development and preparation of sketches, diagrams and drawings to communicate engineering concepts with oversight from senior staff Apply analysis techniques for the preparation of calculations all elements within structures, prepare and review load takedowns or manage the preparation of such calculations by junior staff Understand and apply principles of stability and develop these for proposed structures Demonstrate the ability to break down complex structures into individual components to allow for element design and the ability to communicate this to colleagues Attend internal and external reviews and meetings as required with clients and design team members autonomously Liaise with other disciplines for projects to assist with coordination of designs Prepare structural engineering reports autonomously with input from senior engineers Prepare designs which consider and reduce hazard and risk. This will include the preparation of assumed sequences of construction, contribution to risk registers, highlighting risks within tender information Manage, distribute and provide oversight for work for junior members of staff Conduct site visits during the construction phase of projects autonomously and report on all aspects of visits Ability to manage and deliver designs for multiple projects Prepare specification documents for projects with oversight from senior staff Adhere to company quality, environment and H&S accredited standards as required for your role and provide oversight to ensure junior staff adhere to these standards Ability to clearly interpret and understand project and client briefs Management of programme deadlines Monitoring of project spend and finances on projects and reporting on these to senior staff Prepare and deliver project presentations Undertake general administrative duties as and when required Ensure QA procedures are followed and documented Ensure all of your work is reviewed and approved by a minimum of Principal Engineer prior to any documentation issue.

Software

Have experience of all necessary design software not limited to those identified below


AutoCAD Revit Bluebeam Tekla TEDDS Tekla Structures Chorus MS Office Actively develops the abilities of Graduate and Apprentice Engineers in the use of all software packages

Qualifications

Degree qualified Batchelor/Masters in Civil or Structural Engineering Hold graduate membership ICE or IStructE

Minimum Requirements

Been consistently and successfully demonstrating all of the requirements of the project engineer role profile. Demonstrable skills in managing projects, delivery, and quality autonomously. Good people skills and demonstrable client facing skills. Capable of working with own initiative to provide Capable of working with own initiative to provide solutions to engineering and management challenges Right to work in the UK Hold a valid full UK Driving Licence (advantageous but not required) Be prepared to travel to meetings and projects as necessary. Generally local to contracted office, but occasional work in other parts of UK and Europe or overseas that may necessitate an overnight stay.
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Benefits

33 days holiday, inc publics and time between Christmas and New Year Additional annual leave purchase scheme (up to 1 week) Long service holiday (1 day extra after year 6-10 giving a week extra in total after 10 years' service) Salary exchange pension with Aviva HH currently 5% and EE 3% min Pay for 1 professional membership per year Cycle to Work EV leasing Enhanced Mat/Pat etc (after 18 months service) DIS 3x salary 1 charitable works day off per year Free flu jab Hybrid working policy Finders fee 3k

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