Structural Engineer

Your opportunity

What's the Opportunity

We have an opportunity for a skilled Structural Engineer with good experience delivering new buildings, large surveys, and refurbishment projects, to join our team in our Woodstock, Oxford office. You will assist in the provision of a wide range of structural engineering services.

The projects we work on include a variety of large complex schemes through to smaller local client focussed tasks. We work both in the UK and internationally with interesting clients including F1 Teams, airports, schools/universities, contractors, developers and local authorities.

We are located on the verge of Blenheim Palace with free parking and access to the amazing park in the grounds at lunchtimes.

What you need to do to be effective in this role

• Prepare outline designs for structural schemes based on our client's brief
• Carry out detailed design calculations to Eurocodes using the latest 3D design software
• Co-ordinate your designs with other design disciplines and specialists with BIM
• Assist with the production of detailed design drawings and specifications for tender purposes
• Visit sites during the construction phase to monitor on-site progress
• Carry out structural surveys of existing buildings and advise on any issues that may arise
• Analyse and report on structural defects in existing buildings and structures
• Check outgoing and incoming documents, including contractors' proposal documentation

The skills and experience you need to have for this role

• A good understanding of basic structural behaviour
• A proactive approach with a can-do attitude
• Be a team player within the structures team, the wider teams in the office and company and with clients and collaborators
• Degree in structural or civil engineering and be working towards professional chartership status
• Proven experience of working in structural design and site experience in a construction company
• A good understanding of the basic regulatory requirements including Eurocodes - this will be covered in your interview
• Experience and understanding of sustainability issues within structural design
• Be a proficient user of structural analysis software such as TEKLA, Masterseries, SCIA and TEDDS
• Competency at report writing and other forms of design communication.

About us

We are Ridge, a Built Environment Consultancy. We help our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.

Our 1,400+ people bring a vast range of skills, delivering a professional mindset, gritty discipline and a genuine passion to every one of the thousands of projects they undertake each year. They're the foundation of our success - they drive our vision, embody our values and separate us from the competition.

Come and join us if you're hungry to be part of an exceptional team - if you put quality first - if you're motivated by ingenuity and if you're always aspiring to be the very best.