Associate Structural Engineer

£48,000 - £58,000 DoE

South West Norse is an award winning property consultancy delivering high profile, inspiring professional multi-disciplined services to a range of public and private sector clients .  We undertake both new-build and refurbishment projects of varying size and complexity, resulting in innovative, sustainable and commercially viable delivery.

We provide expertise across a full range of design and construction management, including Engineering, Architecture and building maintenance and currently have an opportunity for an Associate Structural Engineer to join our Exeter based team.

It will be your role to drive and deliver works across the discipline, holding responsibility for the technical and commercial management of major projects, as well as providing inspirational leadership for the team.

You will be expected to assist the relevant department Director managing engineering resources and client needs, ensuring all projects are delivered to meet expectations.

Duties will include:

• Completing planned work programmes and projects to timeframes and with budget.
• Managing client needs, defining project technical specifications, manage costs, fees and commercial requirement and ensure that projects are delivered to client satisfaction.
• Assisting the relevant director in managing engineering resources across the Structural Engineering team.
• Supporting business development activity to enhance, grow and diversify the engineering capabilities.
• Managing the implementation of best practice in the Structural Engineering team.
• Leading major projects ensuring that they are delivered to the specification.
• Preparing designs, calculations, specifications, drawing and carrying out risk assessments for improvement, refurbishment and new building schemes, tendering documents and supervising works to completion including agreeing interim and final accounts.
• Preparing schedules of dilapidations, improvement scheme, drawings and specifications, structural surveys, and insurance reinstatement schemes.
• Responding to emergency requests for action or advice regarding dangerous buildings. Attending and advising on incidents.
• Providing advice to clients in respect of construction and refurbishment projects and actively promote surveying services on a fee-paying basis.

Our Successful Candidate:

To ensure the continued delivery of our exceptional services, you will be expected to be able to demonstrate a blend of commercial experience, professional training and industry knowledge highlighted by the following;

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in an Structural Engineering related discipline
• Professional membership of the Institute of Structural Engineers and be working or prepared to work towards Chartered status
• Holds a current site card or is prepared to immediately attain
• Conversant with Health and Safety legislation.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite and AutoCAD
• Familiar with relevant construction, health and safety legislation and risks and hazards associated with asbestos

We will provide you access to a number of specialist design tools (including CAD, Revit, Robot & Tekla) to ensure projects are delivered to specification, with your existing knowledge of these or equivalent being essential.

Our Offer:

All our employees benefit from a culture of encouraging professional development, and this can be tailored to all levels of experience. Alongside this, you will receive a competitive salary of £48,000 - £58,000 (depending on experience), enrolment into our company pension & sickness scheme and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays).

We are committed to employment practices and behaviours which encourage diversity, promote equality of treatment and eliminate unlawful and or unfair discrimination.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications. If you have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful 

and will not be progressed to the next stage.

A DBS check will be required for our successful candidate, payment will be met by the employer.