Senior Forensic Structural Engineer

Thrive on openness, respect and collaboration? Good. Us too. Join as our new Senior Structural Forensic Engineer.

We have an opportunity for a leading role in the area of Structural Forensics within our London Structures team. You will work as part of the leadership of a team working on a number of projects requiring the review of existing building structures with risks of design flaws.

The challenge is to diagnose the status of the design in relation to code compliance, communicate any deficiencies and propose remedial measures to extend the life of the building with minimum disruption to the building stakeholders.

This is a technically demanding role and we are seeking candidates with a strong interest in this area of work. It is more important that candidates have a strong interest in this area of work and want to develop their skills than it is that they have considerable experience of this type of work. The ideal candidate will have considerable ability in the detailed structural analysis and investigation of structures, and the ability to bring considerable creativity to resolving structural problems and deficiencies. The work requires a detailed understanding of structural load paths, principles, and detailing in concrete and steel buildings.

This is a growing area of work for us and this role will offer significant opportunity for taking on responsibility and career development, and for developing advanced engineering skills and approaches.

For the right candidate we will consider an appointment at Associate grade.

Your next role:

• Working independently and as part of a team
• Produce calculations, models, reports, and presentations to an excellent standard, on time and to budget.
• Share your work for review by senior colleagues and review the work of others for quality assurance.
• Presenting your designs at internal workshops and chairing external meetings with clients and external consultants when required.
• Leading teams by making timely decisions and corrective action whilst creating an atmosphere that delivers excellent work.
• Independent research of technical publications and literature in support of assessment into code verification and assisting potential remedial solutions
• Collaborating with external clients and harnessing opportunities to engage other internal discipline designers.
• Informing colleagues of design decisions to ensure the objectives of the company and the client are achieved.
• Prepare commercial proposals or bids and competition designs whilst working alongside senior colleagues.
• Manage multiple projects / workstreams and assume responsibility for project delivery within agreed timeframes.
• Coordinating your work with other members of the project team and contributing to internal technical development strategy.
• Mentoring and assisting Graduates and less experienced Engineers whilst maintaining your continued professional development, particularly in line management and chartership.
• Actively maintaining an external and internal network.

Your skills and experience:

• Extensive building structures design experience, particularly in reinforced concrete design, structural steelwork design and the refurbishment of existing buildings
• Within reinforced concrete design experience, we require detailed understanding of punching shear, in particular punching shear checks of transfer slabs
• Experience as a lead structural engineer on medium to large projects.
• Extensive knowledge of British and European codes of practice.
• Strong analytical and structural site inspection skills.
• Experience using common analysis software (including or similar to ROBOT, TEDDS, ETABS and SAFE) and willing to quickly learn to use new analysis packages as required, including fully non-linear analysis packages.
• Be a Chartered Member of the ICE or IStructE with the Engineering Council UK or equivalent body.
• A Bachelor’s degree BEng / BSc or Master’s degree MEng / MSc in a relevant discipline.
• APAEWE (Advanced Professional Award in Expert Witness Evidence) qualification is preferred

What we offer you:

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package including life assurance, income protection and private medical cover.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.

Join us to find out what you’re really capable of

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact [email protected] so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.