Structural Engineer
Ipswich
To plan, design and manage structural design projects, ensuring the structures are safe, compliant and economic.
Team worker:
- Participate as a member of the Concertus team supporting colleagues and working collaboratively to develop the business
- Support the Senior Structural Engineer and Principal Civil and Structural Engineer as required
- Work flexibly to support delivery across the service.
- Support junior employees
Customer service:
- Prepare bids for tenders and report to clients, public agents and planning bodies
- Provide an efficient and business-like point of contact
- Deliver a consistent and professional level of customer service at all times to clients and other stakeholders
Business delivery:
- Undertake feasibility, concept and detail structural engineering design and checking
- Undertake structural inspections
- Commission specialist surveys
- Obtain building regulation approvals
- Prepare reports
- Create engineering drawings using CAD packages and sketches for drafting
- Assessing the environmental impact and risks connected to design decisions
- Assessing the Health and Safety impact and risks connected to design decisions
- Managing, directing and monitoring progress during each phase of a project
- Monitoring and inspecting work undertaken by contractors
- Administer contracts
BIM Roles and Responsibilities:
- Ensuring Asset Information requirements and/or MIDP requirements set out in the Employers Information Requirements and delivered on a BIM project
- Enable reliable information exchange through a common data environment
- Enable integration and coordination of information within the information model
- Configure information for project outputs
- Assure delivery of information exchanges
- Confirm supplier’s ability to deliver information requirements
- Coordinated delivery of all design information
- Manage information of development and information approvals
- Confirm design deliverables
- Overall lead for configuration management
- Production of design outputs related to discipline-specific, package-based or time-based tasks
- Direct the production of task information in compliance with standards and methods
- Direct the product of task information using agreed systems
- Manage spatial coordination on behalf of task team
- Propose resolutions to coordination clashes
Measures of success:
- Feedback from team members and line manager
- Performance Objectives
- Contribution to service
- Team performance
- Service improvements suggested
- Accuracy and timeliness of support
- Efficiency of systems and processes
- Service delivered within budget and to agreed targets
- Feedback from staff and managers
- Service delivery indicators
- Customer feedback
- Director feedback
It’s essential you have:
- Strong Engineering experience (minimum of two years)
- Chartership with ICE, I Struct E or equivalent (or in progress to attain this)
- Decision making with minimal supervision abilities
- Ability to work directly with clients and other team members to ensure projects are completed in agreed timescales
How you act:
- Professional, friendly and honest – Build good relationships with colleagues and understands the importance of confidentiality
- Attention to detail – Able to deliver clear and accurate information
- Team worker – You work collaboratively with your team to achieve better outcomes for customers
- Service deliverer – You focus on delivering a service that provides great outcomes for our customers
- Customer focused – you put the customer first
- Shows initiative – you come up with ways of improving how we do things
- Well organised – you plan and prioritise your work to ensure that deadlines are met. You have the ability to plan and multi-task and can work to strict deadlines
- Willing to learn – you want to acquire new skills that will support you in your role
- Flexible attitude – you are prepared to work flexibly to deliver the service
Communication:
- Create a positive and professional first impression of Concertus.
- Deal with all contacts professionally.
- Liaise with Clients, Architects and other professional staff and provide technical advice to them
- Negotiate with drainage utilities, the Environment Agency and the lead local flood authority