Structural Design Stress Engineer

Nicholas Associates Engineering, Technical and Manufacturing Recruitment Division is currently recruiting for a Structural Design Stress Engineer on behalf of our client.

Role: Structural Design Stress Engineer / Graduate
Salary: £30,000 – £42,000dependent on experience
Start Date: ASAP

KEY OBJECTIVES

1) To acquire and maintain a strong working knowledge of the company’s technologies with a focus on the structural and mechanical aspects.
2)To integrate into the engineering function and work cohesively with all internal teams to meet project objectives.
3)To develop a strong ability within structural steel design for industrial structures.
4) To maintain a working knowledge of structural concrete design.
5)To become conversant with a variety of international structural and seismic design codes, in particular Eurocode and American codes (ASTM/ASCE/AISC).
6)To add value by exercising engineering design experience to support estimates and proposals, perform detailed design and review third party or outsourced structural design packages.
7)To provide design information (e.g. drawings, sketches, calculations, reports etc), to internal departments as well as external clients or suppliers, in line with project specifications and timescales.
8)To become autonomous in the role; working with minimal supervision and having the confidence to make key decisions whilst accounting for commercial and technical risk.

As well as the above key objectives, you will be expected to carry out other duties which can reasonably be assessed as part of your role. This will include an element of international travel as required.

CORE SKILLS AND QUALITIES

Essential

*Bachelors degree qualification in Structural/Civil/Mechanical engineering discipline
*Minimum 2 years structural steel design experience
*IT literacy – particularly Microsoft Office applications
*High level of written and verbal communication
*High level of analytical and problem solving skills
*Desire and ambition to learn and develop quickly
*Customer and project focused with the ability to self-manage

Desirable

Experience in:

*Relevant industrial structural steel design
*Design to Eurocodes
*Design to American codes
*Seismic design
*AutoCAD/Revit/Inventor software
*ROBOT/Tedds structural software

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