Senior Design Engineer – Knutsford, Cheshire
Are you an experienced Senior Design Engineer with a nuclear background? We currently have an excellent pipeline of work and can offer excellent career progression to the right candidate.
Why join us?
Since 1869 we’ve worked on building and civil engineering projects that have set the standard for others to follow – right up to present-day examples like the Eden Project, Olympic Stadium and award-winning new Bloomberg building. As we celebrate our 153rd anniversary, we’re looking forward with excitement to the projects and opportunities ahead. Our family-owned business is where to achieve more from your career by proudly building Britain’s future heritage with us.
The Senior Design Engineer role
This role is responsible for supporting the project lead as part of a team of engineers and technicians producing design solutions for construction. You will have an ability to manage a small team of graduate engineers and technicians and to deliver well considered, quality designs solutions in a manner which upholds the Visions and Values of the Company.
You will be expected to use your Engineering, time / cost awareness and practical and technical knowledge to deliver design solutions that meet our contractual obligations, recognise current legislation, standards and codes of practice, prepare construction methodology and buildability, and ensure are of the right quality and are delivered to meet the proposed procurement and construction programmes.
Your profile
- You will ideally be a Chartered Engineer with either ICE, IStruct-E or Institution of Geologists as appropriate
- You’ll have extensive post graduate experienced working as a Design Engineer.
- You will have some experience in the nuclear industry in order to be able to perform detailed design calculations within the nuclear design group based in Knutsford, Cheshire.
- You will be a motivated individual with a keen interest in structural, civil or geotechnical engineering and an appreciation of architecture. An interest in temporary works design would be considered desirable.
Rewards
We’re ready to invest in you and your future, and offer wide-ranging, performance-related progression opportunities. Our competitive rewards packages feature flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle and priorities.
We’d love you to join us in proudly building Britain’s future heritage. Apply online now.
Sir Robert McAlpine is focused on being a truly inclusive employer, even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. Especially if you’re part of a group that is under-represented in Construction. Our goal is for Sir Robert McAlpine to proportionally represent the diversity of the working population in society. As a family-run business with strong family values, our aim is to ensure that Sir Robert McAlpine is a supportive, empowering and inclusive environment for every member of our team.
