Senior Structures Engineer
- Location:
- Reading jobs
,
Berkshire jobs
- Salary:
- £31000,00 - £48000,00 per year
- Company:
- Hill McGlynn.
- Job type:
- Permanent jobs
- Date posted:
- 05/11/2009 08:25
- Job id:
- 45853359
- Contact:
- Edward Oldbury
- Ref:
- Totaljobs/143465
Our client is large multidisciplinary consultancy with a varied and interesting defence portfolio of work. They are currently recruiting for a Senior Structural Design Engineer for some flagship defence projects in the Reading area.
They require a senior structural engineer to join the team currently engaged in the design of multi-million pound state-of-the-art facilities to support the development of the UK defence programme.
As a senior structural engineer, you will be responsible for the following structural engineering elements of multi-disciplinary projects:
Client, stakeholder and internal senior management engagement
Project definition
Preparation of conceptual and scheme designs
Preparation of technical specifications
Production and checking of detailed design deliverables and engineering drawings.
Benefits
- Salary dependent on experience
- Market leading benefits
Qualifications and Experience
Relevant structural engineering degree
Chartered MIStructE, or close to achieving chartered status
A confident and professional manner
Excellent written, oral and presentational skills
Ability to use initiative and demonstrate creativity and innovation
Self motivated and committed to further study/development
Ability to work autonomously, or within a team
Technical Knowledge
As a senior structural engineer, you will most likely have strong experience in one or more of the following areas:
Design of steel frame structures
Design of masonry structures
Reinforced concrete design - storage tanks, retaining walls, foundations, etc.
Knowledge and application of relevant technical standards and specifications
Working knowledge of the CDM Regulations 2007 and its application to you as a designer, and to the other duty holders
Project management skills (planning, implementing and monitoring)
Technical management skills (estimating and preparation of deliverable/work package documentation, managing technical delivery teams)
A good appreciation of other disciplines' (process, mechanical, electrical, control and instrumentation) potential requirements and constraints
Additional Desirable Skills
Specific defence experience in a structural engineering context.
Blast analysis and design.
Design of explosives licensed facilities.
Design of nuclear licensed facilities.
Experience in the civil, or military, nuclear industry.
Design and layout of radiologically controlled facilities/areas
We welcome applications from candidates of all ages.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
