About the Role
Civic is seeking a talented and collaborative Structural Design Engineer to join their team. This role involves working closely with high-profile clients, influencing with technical expertise, and contributing to sustainable design practices to create inspirational designs that protect our climate and enhance the built environment.
Responsibilities
- Structural engineering design
- Preparing, presenting, and checking drawings and calculations
- Briefing Technicians and Graduates
- Attending site and project team meetings
- Occasional visits to construction sites for survey/inspection
- Internal reviews/critiques
- Contributing to writing bids and fees proposals
- On project training
- Compliance with the duties of Designer under the CDM Regulations 2015
- Compliance with the Practice QMS
Requirements
- Already on your chartership journey
- Creative thinker
- Passionate and enthusiastic to help grow and develop your career
- Collaborative and helpful outlook
- Strong interest in architecture and the wider public realm/built environment
- Progressive and talented engineer keen to influence people around them with understanding and empathy
Skills
- Structural design
- Drawing and calculation preparation, presentation, and checking
- Technical expertise
- Effective communication
- People management
- Business development
- Commercial abilities
- People and solutions focus
- Contractual awareness
- Project management
- Project resource planning
- Deadline management
Location
- UK
- Manchester
- London
- Leeds
- Glasgow
- Edinburgh
- Dublin
Work Type
- Hybrid working (3 days in studio)
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Chartership journey
Salary/Compensations
- A fair and competitive salary, taking into consideration market rates and your experience level
Benefits
- Flexibility with core hours (10:30am-4:30pm)
- Early Friday finish
- 26 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays
- Additional holiday day at 3 and 5 years of service
- Option to buy or sell a week of holiday annually
- Option to bank a week's holiday for 3 years to take a month off
- Enhanced Family Leave (maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental, neonatal care)
- 2 days paid dependency leave
- 1 week paid carers leave
- Wellbeing support (mental health first aider, mindfulness sessions, EAP)
- Life Assurance
- Health Care Cash Plan
- Gym discounts
- Free Eye tests
- 4 weeks enhanced sick leave
- 2 mental wellness days
- 2 days paid volunteering leave annually
- Paid professional memberships
- 2 days paid study leave (+ extra for exams)
- Chartership Preparation Courses
- Chartership completion bonus
- In-house ‘Civic Academy’ training
- Management Development Programmes
- Mentorship programme
- HMRC friendly Workplace Nursery scheme
- Workplace pension scheme
- Season Ticket Loans
- National Rail Cards
- Two salary sacrifice cycle to work schemes
- Cycling facilities at all studios (showers, bike racks)
About the Company
- Civic is a team of system thinkers in the built environment, creating positive impact for people, places and the planet.
- We want our work to have a positive impact on the environment — helping people to live healthier, happier lives while respecting natural limits.
- We build without destroying, explore without exploiting, and seek to reuse rather than just consume.
- We listen, learn, and aim to create a lasting legacy.
- We have a team of over 200 members working across the UK, united by our creative belief, bringing art and science together to solve problems.
- Our award-winning practice has studios in Manchester, London, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin.
- Sustainable design is at the heart of our Practice.
- We are passionate about our responsibility to leave a positive legacy through our work, for neighbourhoods now and the next generation.
- Our vision is to have a positive impact on the environment and enabling people to lead healthier and happier lives.
Equal Opportunity
- Civic is made up of brilliant people. Each of us is unique, whether in terms of our background, personal characteristics, experience, skills or motivations. And we value our people for the differences they bring to the table. These differences - this diversity - is powerful.
- Nurturing an inclusive culture helps each of us to benefit from a wider range of these different perspectives, experiences and skills. We believe that this creates a happier, more productive working environment for us all.
- We encourage applications from individuals who bring diverse perspectives and are passionate about contributing to an equitable and respectful work environment.
