Principal Structural Engineer

Job description / Role

- Managing a project or a small portfolio of projects of various sizes
- Providing the design team with leadership and guidance focused on project delivery
- Having an appreciation of the roles of fellow professionals on multidisciplinary projects (architect, quantity surveyor, services etc) and interfacing and coordinating with them appropriately
- Maintaining a comprehensive knowledge and appreciation of current technical engineering codes and practices and taking a role in technical matters both at project and divisional level
- Interpreting commercial and/or contractual aspects of correspondence with or between fellow professionals
- Managing the project budgets, staffing forecast for both programming and expenditure
- Provide structural technical support and manage the technical accuracy of the project delivery
- Provide support in the development of the business and staff recruitment within the structural department
- Be able to present technical aspects of a project and structural design approach to technical and non-technical individuals

Requirements

- Ability to demonstrate technical (design) skills
- Enthusiastic and dynamic approach to work.
- Chartered engineer and member or fellow of IStructE or similar professional body
- Outward facing personality with good interpersonal skills
- Self motivation with good organisational capability
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Client care and development skills
- Ability to evaluate and rationalise risk
- Flexibility, be willing to question and respond in a positive approach
- IT literacy
- Able to manage a team of engineers, and provide support on structural analysis software and modelling packages to the structural team

Mott MacDonald is an equal opportunities employer

About the Company

The Mott MacDonald Group is a diverse management, engineering and development consultancy delivering solutions for public and private clients world-wide.

Mott MacDonald's uniquely diverse 1 billion global consultancy works across 12 core business areas.

As one of the world's largest employee-owned companies with over 14,000 staff, we have principal offices in nearly 50 countries and projects in 140.