AECOM is seeking an experienced Principal Structural Engineer within the Buildings & Places business unit to be based in either our London or St Albans office.
We are currently recruiting for a Principal Structural Engineer to join our established building engineering team in the London and the Southeast region. The team are currently undertaking a range of exciting new build and refurbishment projects from £500k to £50m+ in a variety of sectors including education, health, defence and commercial. We are also assisting a wide variety of national and international clients in planning to meet their carbon reduction targets as part of the national drive for Net Zero Carbon.
This is a great opportunity to play a significant part on future construction projects across the UK, and across worldwide locations.
Duties of the Principal Structural Engineer role include
- Assisting with the supervision of structural engineering design of complex Engineering projects.
- Effectively control commercial, managerial and technical aspects of projects or parts thereof for which you are responsible.
- Sourcing opportunities and preparing fee proposals for submission to client, including resources and programme.
- Leading a team of engineers and technicians designing building schemes.
- Performing work to an agreed budget and schedule with moderate supervision.
- Providing guidance to graduate engineers.
- Managing and leading junior engineers and overseeing structural designs.
- Managing and coordinating design input and output.
- Engaging with the internal design review process with one of our Lead Verifiers.
- Attending informal design workshops with other members of the design team.
- Maintaining outstanding technical quality.
Specific Requirements
- Ability to design in various common structural materials with an excellent knowledge of design in reinforced concrete and steel essential.
- Excellent working knowledge of the current Eurocodes.
- Excellent working knowledge of Structural Analysis Software, TEKLA, TEDDs, SCIA, or similar software.
- Experience in the assessment of existing structures and their justification, as well as new build designs.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English).
- Interacts with Clients in a professional manner.
- Strong interpersonal, negotiating, problem solving, and analytical skills are a must.
- Able to work well under pressure.
- Detail oriented, adept at multi-tasking and prioritising workloads.
Minimum requirements
- A solid track record of having worked on a variety of structures projects, possibly as project leader on some, with experience of dealing directly with clients.
- Excellent knowledge of standard engineering practices, techniques, procedures and Structural design principles.
- Undertaking structural engineering design on complex projects, performing analyses and calculations as appropriate.
- Supervising work, ensuring that it is carried out to the appropriate technical standard and that it is managed to programme and budget.
- Ability to deliver design solutions, calculations, lead teams and successfully manage projects.
- Extensive post University experience in Building Structures across a number of market sectors and construction materials/methods.