Structural engineer job at Sheffield City Council

Structural Engineer – Sheffield City Council

If you are a structural engineer with a wide range of experience, Sheffield City Council’s Capital Delivery Service may be the perfect opportunity for you. We are looking for talented engineers to expand our team.

He works for the Capital Delivery Service

The Capital Delivery Service is looking for a Structural Engineer to join our multi-disciplinary team of construction professionals supporting the delivery of a wide range of projects across the council’s capital programme.

Working for Sheffield City Council brings with it great opportunities and benefits. We offer fantastic project and experiences across a wide range of sectors and an opportunity to make a real positive impact on our great city. We are proud to offer a competitive salary, one of the best pension schemes available in any sector and values ​​that support family-friendly working arrangements.

We aim to attract staff who represent and value Sheffield’s diverse and vibrant communities, and best of all, we offer the opportunity to live and work in a great city that you will work directly to shape.

Application / Evaluation

Initial assessment of applications will be made via our standard application form, taking into account your relevant skills, knowledge and experience against the specifications set out in the job description. If selected for interview, it will be combined with a technical assessment.

Duties and Responsibilities

The ideal candidate will have the following attributes/skills in the following areas:

• Strong design and engineering skills and openness to innovation and improvement.
• Good standards of literacy and numeracy
• Excellent organizational skills
• Ability to work on own initiative and also within multidisciplinary design teams.
• A high degree of technical competence and knowledge of construction.
• An ability to accurately study and assess existing buildings for structural condition and produce high quality reports on them.
• Extensive and proven experience of working with architects to design and obtain planning and building control approvals for projects.
• Proficiency in Autodesk and NBS design software with working knowledge of Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Essential qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in civil or structural engineering.
• Minimum of 3 years previous experience in a Structural Engineering role
• Ideally working towards Chartership with IStructE or ICE.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD (preferably experience using Revit Structure and Navisworks)
• Good written and verbal communication skills, including preparing reports.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision to deliver projects from inception to completion.

Please note that shortlisting will be done based on the person’s specifications in the job description.

About the Capital Delivery Service

Sheffield City Council has a strong capital building program with an ongoing value of approximately £200 million per annum. To ensure the highest quality standards are achieved, the Capital Delivery Service was created to drive continuous improvements in the performance, pace and quality of the program’s very different projects.

Capital Delivery Service employs over 70 people in a variety of managerial, technical and professional roles and has an in-house multi-disciplinary design team that provides design services for a wide range of construction projects.

The roles and services provided by the Capital Delivery Service include:

• Office of Capital Program Management
• Program and project management
• Cost management
• Structural and Civil Engineering
• Mechanical and electrical engineering
• Architecture
• Labor Insurance and Project Safety.

The service is a fully transacted service, charging fees for the services it provides and operating as a professional services consultancy within the City Council.

Our best practice approach

The Service has a vision to develop into a leading public sector center of excellence for the delivery of capital projects and programs and is at the forefront of changing the way the Council delivers these programmes.

Training and development

Working within the service, there are many opportunities for continuous training and development. We seek to offer a range of training opportunities to suit the ongoing development needs of our staff and the Capital Programme.

Project portfolio

The Service is involved in a wide range of projects under the Capital Programme. The program averages around £200 million per year, with recent and current projects including:

– Secondary and primary schools

– New leisure centers

– Motorways / Bicycles / Pedestrian walkways

– Citywide Flood Mitigation Program

– The Council’s new housing program

– Various Housing Repairs / Council Renovation Programme

– General reconstructions of buildings

We invest in our workforce and promote opportunities for our underrepresented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly black, Asian, minority ethnic, disabled and LGBTQ+, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We also support staff with unpaid care responsibilities to work flexibly.

It’s a great time to join us and we look forward to your application.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria of this job are guaranteed an interview.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks a year and we offer generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussing a range of flexible working opportunities that benefit you and the Council, including reduced hours contracts, part-time work or as a shared workplace.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the final grade. If you provide proof of pay that your base pay is higher than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the minimum advantage point within the grade.