Senior/ Principal Engineer

This consultancy is one to the biggest consultancies in the Engineering industry. They’re expanding their team and need a Senior/Principal Civil Engineer in the Newcastle office.

Reporting to a senior member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work on some of the most exciting and high profile major multi-disciplinary development projects across the region, categorised into wide variety of sectors including Transportation, High-rise, Commercial & Mixed use, Retail, Education, and Healthcare, including recent wins in the Defence sector.

The role:

• Own and lead the design process, encouraging yours and wider teams to deliver the right solutions to the agreed programme, and support those less experienced by technical review, mentoring and advice.
• Manage processes to ensure technical issues and risks are resolved in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Form strong working relationships with other disciplines, external design consultants, stakeholders and clients.
• Provide sustainable development solutions from site selection through to detailed design and construction.
• Provide specialist advice and design solutions to our clients on sustainable design, net zero carbon, MMC & DfMA.

What you need to succeed:

• Degree or HNC/HND qualification in a relevant discipline
• Chartered or following a path to Chartership
• Solid experience in Civil & Structural detailed design;
• Detailed working knowledge of national codes and standards
• Proven understanding of the design process and ability to demonstrate working knowledge of brief/scope documents, design concepts as well as experienced in producing calculations
• Experience of working with structural design software packages such as Tekla Structural Designer, Tedds and Experience in CAD software such as Revit would be beneficial.
• Experience of working with clients and contractors with a diverse range of objectives in achieving a technical solution