Primary Location: UK – London – Aldgate Tower
Job Description
AECOM is seeking an experienced Principal Structural Engineer within the Buildings & Places business unit to be based in either our London or St Albans office.
We are currently recruiting for a Principal Structural Engineer to join our established building engineering team in London and the Southeast region. The team is undertaking a range of exciting new build and refurbishment projects from £500,000 to £50 million+ in a variety of sectors, including education, health, defence and commercial. We also assist a wide variety of national and international clients in planning to meet their carbon reduction targets as part of the national drive for Net Zero Carbon.
This is a great opportunity to play a significant part on future construction projects across the UK and worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Assist with the supervision of structural engineering design of complex engineering projects.
- Effectively control commercial, managerial and technical aspects of projects or parts thereof for which you are responsible.
- Sourcing opportunities and preparing fee proposals for submission to client, including resources and programme.
- Lead a team of engineers and technicians designing building schemes.
- Perform work to an agreed budget and schedule with moderate supervision.
- Provide guidance to graduate engineers.
- Manage and lead junior engineers and oversee structural designs.
- Manage and coordinate design input and output.
- Engage with the internal design review process with one of our lead verifiers.
- Attend informal design workshops with other members of the design team.
- Maintain outstanding technical quality.
Specific Requirements
- Ability to design in various common structural materials with an excellent knowledge of reinforced concrete and steel essential.
- Excellent working knowledge of the current Eurocodes.
- Excellent working knowledge of structural analysis software, TEKLA, TEDDs, SCIA, or similar software.
- Experience in the assessment of existing structures and their justification, as well as new build designs.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English).
- Interacts with clients in a professional manner.
- Strong interpersonal, negotiating, problem‑solving, and analytical skills are a must.
- Able to work well under pressure.
- Detail‑oriented, adept at multi‑tasking and prioritising workloads.
- A solid track record of having worked on a variety of structures projects, possibly as project leader on some, with experience of dealing directly with clients.
- Excellent knowledge of standard engineering practices, techniques, procedures and structural design principles.
- Undertaking structural engineering design on complex projects, performing analyses and calculations as appropriate.
- Supervising work, ensuring that it is carried out to the appropriate technical standard and that it is managed to programme and budget.
- Ability to deliver design solutions, calculations, lead teams and successfully manage projects.
- Extensive post‑university experience in building structures across a number of market sectors and construction materials/methods.
Qualifications
- Degree qualified in a relevant discipline.
- Chartered Engineer (CEng).
- Member of either the Institution of Civil Engineers and/or the Institution of Structural Engineers.
Additional Information
All newly hired employees are required to attend an in‑person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long‑term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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