Are you a Senior Structural Engineer with heavy civils experience, ready to step up into a lead principal position and looking for a challenging and rewarding design delivery role?

We are working with an independently run engineering consultancy with a fantastic reputation with over 30 years of history in Cardiff. They are looking for a Structural Engineer to join their growing team to work on local and national projects. With a talented and diverse team of practice has an active social scene and promises real career development.

This person will need to have extensive heavy civils experience good geotechnical knowledge.

Candidates can expect to be working on:

Retaining structures
Logistics facilities
Foundations
Large concrete elements
All major components essential to project completion

The business is looking for a skilled, enthusiastic and self-motivated Engineer to join their team at a principal level who can work autonomously and manage their own projects the size of which would depend on the experience of the candidate.

Responsibilities will include;

Senior point of contact and project delivery
Being he senior technical authority on heavy civil structures
Liaise with clients, managing and developing relationships
Site visits
Help guide and develop junior team members
Contributing to knowledge sharing, individual professional and academic development
Participating and contributing to design team meetings
Ensuring best practice is in place

The successful applicant will have the following competencies:

Self-motivated, able to work on their own with minimal supervision.
Can demonstrate clear effective communication skills both within the offices and external bodies.
Able to produce designs and reports for heavy civil structures
Able to direct and assist junior engineers
Will have a good understanding of the design process.

Educational and experience
Relevant qualification in Civil Engineering

Ideally Experience with civil structures and geotechnical design

This is a career opportunity in a successful and growing practice. This practice has a contemporary take on modern working and has a strong policy in place relating to work-life balance and has embraced home working. They are based not far from Cardiff city centre with free parking. Along with a flexible benefits package on offer is a salary of £50,000 - £60,000