Structural Engineer

Structural Engineer – Sheffield City Council

If you are a Structural Engineer with a broad 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.

Working for the Capital Delivery Service

The Capital Delivery Service is seeking a Structural Engineer to join our multidisciplinary 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 a fantastic project work and experiences across a broad range of sectors, and an opportunity to have a genuine 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 that represent and value the diverse and vibrant communities of Sheffield and best of all we offer the opportunity to live and work in a wonderful city that you will be working directly to shape.

Application / Assessment

Initial assessment of applications will be via our standard application form, considering your relevant skills, knowledge and experience against the specification outlined in the job description. If selected for interview, this will be combined with a technical assessment.

Duties & 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 organisation skills
• Ability to work under own initiative and also within multi-disciplinary design teams.
• A high degree of technical competence and construction knowledge.
• An ability to accurately survey and evaluate existing buildings for structural condition and produce high quality reports on the same.
• Wide and proven track record of working with architects to design, and obtain planning and building control approvals for projects.
• Proficiency in Autodesk and NBS design software, with a working knowledge of Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Essential Qualifications

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

Please note that shortlisting will be carried out based on the person specification in the job description.

About the Capital Delivery Service

Sheffield City Council has a strong Capital Construction Programme with an ongoing value of approximately £200m per annum.  To ensure the highest quality delivery standards are achieved, the Capital Delivery Service has been created to drive ongoing improvements in performance, pace and quality of the widely varying projects within the programme.

The Capital Delivery Service employs 70+ staff in a variety of management, technical and professional roles and has an in-house Multi-Disciplinary Design Team that provides design services to a wide range of construction projects.

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

• Capital Programme Management Office
• Programme and Project Management
• Cost Management
• Structural and Civil Engineering
• Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
• Architecture
• Work Assurance and Project Safety.

The Service is a fully traded 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 for developing into a public sector leading centre of excellence for the delivery of capital projects and programmes and is at the forefront for driving change in how the Council delivers these programmes. 

Training and Development

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

Project Portfolio

The Service is engaged across the diverse range of projects within the Capital Programme. The programme averages around £200m per annum, with recent and current projects including:

-             Secondary & Primary Schools

-             New Leisure centres

-             Highways / Cycle / Footpaths

-             City-Wide Flood Alleviation Programme

-             New Council Housing Programme

-             Various Council Housing Repairs / Refurbishment Programme

-             General Building Refurbishments

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups.  We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome 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 of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.