Engineer / Senior Engineer - Building Structures

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

At WSP, you'll find yourself challenged in more fascinating and far-reaching ways than ever before. You'll explore new and inspiring opportunities to make the most of your expertise, broaden your professional horizons and create exciting new possibilities for people, organisations and society in general.

We are looking for an Engineer and a Senior Structural Engineers for our Cambridge office, to join an established team working with a diverse client group.

You will on a day to day be working with our Civil & Structural Engineering teams in Cambridge and across the UK to help WSP work on some of the most challenging and high profile education, healthcare and technology sector projects within the industry and through collaboration with our unique specialist services teams helping to bring added value to the projects we deliver for our clients.

Full support and supervision will be provided to the role to ensure you develop to your full potential and gain Chartered status.

This role is to work as part of our growing building structures team, taking a lead role in project work, design document production & delivery, client and stakeholder liaison.

• Work with the client, project team and key stakeholders to assemble a design & specification compliant with requirements, agree its format and content, and monitor and review its preparation ensuring delivery by the due date
• Liaise closely with architects and other co-professionals at project inception to establish project briefs
• Assist in the project lifecycle documentation - QA, CDM, Archiving etc and coach more junior colleagues in their use.
• Help support your team members and take part in design reviews and staff development reviews

The candidate must have excellent inter-personal skills, with good project leadership potential capable of communicating effectively with other members of the project team and stakeholders.

• Achieved, or are approaching, Chartered Engineer status (MIStructE / AIStructE / MICE), or have relevant equivalent experience
• A sound knowledge of structural engineering principles, the appropriate use of analytical techniques and design software, and the application of Eurocodes
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience in the production of clear and concise engineering deliverables
• An interest in low carbon design and the assessment of embodied carbon to inform engineering decision making
• Experience in the quality assurance of project deliverables including checking of calculations and drawings to generate high quality outputs.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

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