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About the Role
Apply your structural expertise to protect the safety of our borough’s buildings and communities. As a Senior Structural Engineer, you’ll provide specialist technical oversight that ensures developments across the borough are safe, compliant and built to last.
Responsibilities
- Assess building work, demolitions and temporary structures to ensure compliance with the Building Regulations and structural safety standards.
- Provide expert advice on building control applications and enforcement investigations.
- Assess risks on site, determine appropriate action and implement immediate remedial measures to protect the public where required.
- Assess dangerous structures.
- Work closely with the Building Safety Regulator on Higher-Risk Building projects.
- Manage a varied portfolio including major commercial developments, cultural institutions and the Council’s own property estate.
- Provide clear and accurate technical guidance to architects, contractors, developers and residents.
- Contribute to the ongoing development of the service, supporting ISO 9001 quality standards.
- Identify ways to strengthen efficiency, consistency and technical excellence across Building Control.
Requirements
- Be a Chartered member of a recognised professional body such as the Institution of Civil Engineers or the Institution of Structural Engineers.
- Extensive experience reviewing and vetting structural designs within a construction, consultancy or regulatory environment.
- Thorough knowledge of the Building Act 1984 and the Building Regulations 2010 is essential.
- Proven experience assessing structural risk and managing emergency incidents involving unsafe buildings.
- Strong technical judgement.
- Clear communication skills, able to explain complex engineering principles in an accessible and practical way.
- Confident engaging with Clients, Principal Designers and Principal Contractors.
- Manage professional relationships with credibility and authority.
- Demonstrate integrity, resilience and strong organisational skills.
- Manage a diverse and demanding workload while maintaining high professional standards.
Skills
- Structural expertise
- Technical oversight
- Building Regulations compliance
- Structural safety standards
- Building control applications
- Enforcement investigations
- Risk assessment
- Emergency incident management
- Higher-Risk Building projects
- Technical guidance
- Legislative compliance
- ISO 9001 quality standards
- Efficiency improvement
- Consistency improvement
- Technical excellence
- Communication skills
- Client engagement
- Principal Designer engagement
- Principal Contractor engagement
- Integrity
- Resilience
- Organisational skills
Location
- Borough
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Chartered member of a recognised professional body (e.g., ICE, IStructE)
Salary/Compensations
- New hires will start at the minimum of the advertised salary range.
- Employees receive annual salary increases until they reach the top of the pay scale.
- Employees will receive any agreed cost of living pay rises.
Benefits
- Supportive environment that prioritises learning, collaboration and technical excellence.
- Flexible working considered at the point of hire.
About the Company
- RBKC is a respected and forward-thinking Building Control service operating within one of London’s most architecturally diverse boroughs.
- Kensington and Chelsea is home to diverse communities, thriving businesses and unique local places.
- Everything we do is focused on supporting our residents, strengthening our approach and creating a fairer borough.
- As a competent and caring Council, we take pride in our work every day, ensuring our services are delivered with care and competence.
- We listen to our residents, act with integrity and work together to build a borough that is greener, safer and fairer for all.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
- We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.