Senior Building Structures Design Lead

This role is to work as part of a team to deliver projects effectively. The successful candidate will be working under the supervision of a senior or project engineer to carry out various functions.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare feasibility study reports in the agreed format and review them with the relevant stakeholders.
• Work with the team to assemble design specifications compliant with the employers' requirements, agree their format and content, and monitor their preparation ensuring timely delivery.
• Agree and monitor the scope of works with the relevant stakeholders.
• Clearly define building requirements and purpose of use with the relevant stakeholders and the team to allow detailed design.
• Carry out detailed design to the required standards, ensuring CDM, QA, and technical review and sign-off by the relevant stakeholders, including complex calculations and coordination issues.
• Review and monitor the production of calculations, including QA, technical reviews, and sign-off.
• Ensure that information for project costing preparation is completed in detail and to deadlines, and keep the team informed regarding design progress through explanation of design decisions.
• Provide documentary information to assist in the preparation of tender documents, ensuring that information for tender preparation is completed in detail and to deadlines, and keep the team informed regarding design progress through explanation of design decisions.
• Coordinate project contracts documents (drawings and specifications) and reviews input from team members.
• Deal with day-to-day queries from the team, ensuring that relevant information is available on time for construction activity.
• Report any variance between the works constructed and the design intent to the relevant stakeholders.
• Project manage commissions from the team, using applicable project management tools.
• Lead the design process and encourage the rest of the team to deliver appropriate and cost-effective solutions to the agreed programme.
• Follow the document control, archiving CDM, and QA processes relevant to project work, ensuring drawings, specifications, reports, and correspondence are issued and filed appropriately, coaching junior staff in their usage.
• Technical and Project Management:
  • Raise the level of technical competence within the teams.
  • Implement delivery and quality measurement processes.
  • Promote technical excellence in all projects.
  • Undertake technical reviews and contribute to concept design.
• Develop positive professional relationships with the team, communicating openly about project progress.
• Participate in team meetings, disseminate information within the team, and communicate with other teams.
• Identify and act on, or refer, potential risk issues and follow company commercial and contracting processes.
• Manage delegated tasks to ensure deadlines are met and flag resourcing concerns to the team leader.
• Identify and flag additional fees/scope agreed to the relevant stakeholders.
• Complete timesheets accurately ahead of weekly deadlines.

Key Competencies/Skills:

Mandatory Skills:

• Proven experience in the design of building structures with significant experience in a similar role or demonstration of a good track record.
• Good presentation skills.
• Must be fully conversant with technical structural software, such as RAM, CSC, ETABS, and SAFE.
• A sound understanding of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and Project is essential.
• Must be fluent in English with an excellent understanding of technical terminology.

Desired Skills:

• Demonstrate good management, communication, and technical skills and be capable of working both within the team and independently, as dictated by workload.

Qualifications:

• British Chartered Engineer status or equivalent, degree in Civil or Structural Engineering, and membership to an accredited engineering body Experience: 14+ years.