Are you a Structural Engineer looking for an exciting new challenge in Manchester? Buro Happold is looking for a Structural Engineer with a structural engineering design background. The role comes with an attractive salary and benefits package plus a hybrid working pattern.
What's the opportunity?
Are you passionate about creating innovative, elegant and robust structural engineering solutions for complex construction and sectors.
This role will see you working as part of the Manchester-based structural engineering team focussing on a diverse portfolio of projects in the UK and around the world. This is a technically demanding role and we are ideally looking for creative candidates with an interest in computational techniques as well as being interested in being at the forefront of changes in the industry such as in reducing embodied carbon and modern methods of construction in structural design.
The ideal candidate will be at the Engineer level, with experience across a wide variety of projects and sectors.
This is an opportunity to join an industry leading structures practice, renowned for delivering innovative and architecturally compelling forms and with such an enviable portfolio of projects. We can offer a unique opportunity to push the boundaries of building design, with a focus on structural excellence, inspirational architecture, social value, and environmental sustainability.
Manchester Structures is a hard-working but friendly, supportive and inclusive team, and will offer an enjoyable and rewarding working environment with many opportunities for learning and career advancement.
Key duties:
The role of a Structural Engineer can be very varied, duties will include but are not limited to:
- Working independently and as part of a team to offer creative solutions.
- Supporting the team with calculations, models, reports, and presentations to an excellent standard, on time and to budget.
- Share your work for review by senior colleagues and review the work of others for quality assurance.
- Create an atmosphere of delivering excellent work encouraging others to do the same.
- Collaborate with external clients and harness opportunities to engage other internal discipline designers.
- Informing colleagues of design decisions to ensure the objectives of the company and the client are achieved.
- Contribute to internal technical development following strategy.
- Maintaining your continued professional development.
- Actively maintaining an external and internal network
- Working towards chartership
Your skills & Experience:
- Building structures design experience.
- Experience as a structural engineer on major projects.
- Design knowledge, from working on a wide range of projects and using British and European codes of practice.
- Experience using common analysis software (including or similar to CSC Fastrak, TEDDS, ROBOT, ETABS and SAFE) and willing to quickly learn to use new analysis packages as required.
- A Bachelor’s degree BEng / BSc or Master’s degree MEng / MSc in a relevant discipline.
- Taking active steps to progress towards Chartership and continual professional development.
What we offer:
- Generous holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum, exclusive of Bank Holidays.
- Hybrid working arrangements.
- Company Pension Scheme.
- Life Assurance.
- Income Protection.
- Flexible Benefits - including Cycle scheme, Dental insurance, Optical Cover, Travel insurance and Corporate discounts.
- Buro Happold actively encourages its employees to finish at 3pm on the last Friday of each month (depending on business demands). These hours can equate to an additional 4 days leave per annum.
A place for everyone
Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.
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