Director of Structural Engineering - Special Projects [3568764]

I am interested in hearing from you if you have the skill, experience and passion to support growth in the delivery of technically challenging projects.

I wish to discuss your expertise and enthusiasm regarding a newly created role to lead a 'Specialist Team' who are a key part of this firms UK Building Structures Team. 

This specialist team works across core markets and a growth opportunity has been presented by a mounting portfolio of projects in Defence and Government sectors.

This structural professional will play a lead role in :

• Seismic design and analysis

• Advanced Engineering Simulation

• Dynamics

• Blast

• Finite Element Analysis

• 3D computational design

• Point cloud processing

As Specialist Team Lead, you will have technical and commercial accountability, report into the 'Regional Heads of Department' and support other Directors across the UK Building Structures

Team to strengthen an already growing reputation in growth sectors.

To succeed in this role, you must have a broad technical grounding and understanding across specialist areas alongside being client focused, with a strong ability to simplify and communicate complex ideas in plain language. Are you our new Director?

Your key tasks and responsibilities will include :

• Provide leadership and management to specialist seismic and advanced engineering teams (currently 7 engineers)

• Plan and manage the growth of the specialist team

• Accountable for the technical and commercial performance of the team including reporting to the UK Structures Leadership team

• Act as client liaison to simply explain high complexity or technically challenging work undertaken by your team

• Develop client business relationships through building trust and reputation for technical expertise

• Manage the day-to-day activities in the team, both from a commercial and technical perspective

• Develop and agree structural concepts, design philosophies and undertake inception and peer reviews

• Take ownership as Structural Lead or Design Lead on complex / specialist projects

Personal accolades and expertise :

• Educated to a degree level or equivalent in structural / civil engineering

• Chartered status with the IStructE, ICE or international equivalent

• Demonstratable experience at Associate Structural Engineer level and above (highlighting progression)

• An excellent communicator, verbally, in writing and through sketching

• Great with people, diverse in your outlook and with something different to bring to the table

Technical competencies and proven experience :

• Demonstrable experience of leading technically complex projects

• Demonstratable evidence of leading projects with multiple technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Evidence of providing technical leadership to a team of structural engineers with specialist or niche skills

• Structural seismic analysis and detailing to international and local codes of practice (e.g. European, American, New Zealand, etc.)

• Seismic assessment and retrofit of existing structures

• Dynamic and non-linear analysis

• Blast analysis and design

• Design codes, industry standards, and performance-based design approaches appropriate for safety critical industries

• Knowledge of structural engineering software and specialist finite-element analysis software (e.g. ETABS, CSI SAFE, ANSYS, DIANA etc.)

• Able to fulfil a national role, leading people in multiple geographic locations

• A curiosity to explore – “is there a better way to do this”

The role requires you to be able to obtain UK Government Security Clearance. I partner well closely with this consulting firm and I have an unrivalled depth of insight into a long list of USP's. For a confidential consultation please do approach me.