- Professional
- Escritório em Sunderland
Our Business
pxFairport (pxF) is a project delivery specialist offering full turnkey EPC and OEM solutions to the bulk material handling and plant processing markets. Our services cover the aggregates, processing, tunnelling, mining, quarrying, alternative fuels, waste-to-energy, ports, and food sectors, globally. With unrivalled industry expertise, pxF manages, specifies, engineers, designs, supplies, installs, operates, and maintains market leading equipment for complex material handling needs, guaranteeing performance excellence, reliability, and optimal operating costs.
The Opportunity
We are now recruiting for a Structural Engineer to join our Fairport Sunderland Site.
The purpose of the Structural Engineer role is to ensure that Civil/Structural designs meet the highest standards with regards to safety, code compliance, scope alignment, quality, cost, and on-time delivery.
In this role you will guide and validate Civil / Structural designs to support project delivery, promoting structural efficiency and cost optimization, without compromising safety, by effectively communicating design requirements with the design team and project engineer, in accordance with project program deadlines.
The purpose of the Structural Engineer role is to ensure that Civil/Structural designs meet the highest standards with regards to safety, code compliance, scope alignment, quality, cost, and on-time delivery.
In this role you will guide and validate Civil / Structural designs to support project delivery, promoting structural efficiency and cost optimization, without compromising safety, by effectively communicating design requirements with the design team and project engineer, in accordance with project program deadlines.
Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities include but are not limited to;
- Review project specifications and confirm scope of supply (including anticipated cost/ programme and the impact into the project team.
- Prepare Civil/ Structural Basis of Design summary prior to commencing engineering works.
- Produce analysis models to validate civil/ structural configurations, and to generate foundation loads.
- Ensure analytical models are transferring loads as expected, and that axial forces and moments are fixed/ released as stability (& connection design) demand.
- Produce hand calculations to validate connection design.
- Effectively communicate design requirements to the design team.
- Check Civil/ Structural drawing output (as required) to ensure that the information within reflects analytical models and calculations.
- Prepare Civil/ Structural calculation reports for inclusion into the project technical file.
- Support CAT 2/ CAT 3 checking requirements with any supplementary information as required.
- Attend sites as required, to conduct site and/ or condition surveys, and prepare reports on findings thereafter.
- Attend project design/ model reviews as required, supporting interfacing and tolerancing where applicable.
- Attend client meetings as requested by the Project Engineer.
- Update Project Engineer and Head of Civil/ Structural on progress against task on a weekly basis, Highlighting any blockers or foreseen issues as/ when they become evident.
- Responsible for identifying any (internal/ external) changes to civil/ structural scope and escalating to the Project Engineer to capture via the DCN process.
- Deliver works in alignment with the business’ ISO 9001 processes and templates as controlled within the Quality Management System (COS).
- Engage with the quarterly 1-2-1 process and take actions to address areas for improvement.
- Ensure personal objectives are completed in a timely manner and drive overall departmental/ business objectives year-on-year.
- Maintain alignment with company values and vision. Any other ad hoc duties as may be required, and as commensurate with the grade of post.
- Identification, and escalation, of all civil/ structural Technical Queries (TQ) that occur on the project.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Minimum Requirements:
- Minimum BEng (Hons) in Engineering (preferably Civil or Structural Engineering).
- Experience in a Civil/ Structural engineering field.
- Knowledge of the construction & process industries and applicable standards.
- Ability to use structural analytical software unaided - STAAD Pro or TEKLA Structures.
- Understanding of load cases and combinations, and able to deduce structures are behaving as intended through calculation or analysis.
- Experience of good time management in a project delivery environment.
- Strong attention to detail and committed to quality performance/ output.
- Strong communicator with internal and external customers alike, with good presentation skills.
Benefits
What you will receive from us:
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
- Contribution towards eye test and glasses.
- Online company discount benefits site including cinema tickets and gym. membership discount.
- Long Service Awards.
- Employee recognition scheme – ELITE Awards.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Flexible Benefits Package.
- Onsite parking.
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
Please note this role may close early or be extended depending on the volume of applications.
