Structural Engineer

Job Title: Structural Engineer Department: Projects Location: Head Office (Stafford) Position: Permanent Hours: 41.5 An exciting opportunity to work with both structural steelwork and flexible building materials, for a company at the cutting edge of our Industry. Westgate Global’s bespoke products cover a wide range of site applications, from large, permanent flexible building partitions for Blue Chip companies, to Construction Site Hoarding or External Weathering solutions that de-risk our client’s worksites – all delivered across a Global market from our Head Office in Stafford. Principle Purpose of Position: To provide professional technical support and assurance to the growing business covering a varied portfolio of products. This support will require the production of project specific calculations, to inform and guide our design process. The role will work with both the Projects and Product Management Teams to enhance our current product range, to be innovative with potential new opportunities, and to provide design support on our ongoing portfolio of live, bespoke projects. To ensuring that all projects are value engineered, to provide the best possible outcome across both product integrity and overall cost. ? Key Roles and Responsibilities: * Preparing structural calculations, reports, assessments, specifications and drawings. These may include beam deflections, crowd loadings, support steel intervals, necessary beam grades or fixing capacities, overturning moments or wind/snow loadings and assessing their impacts upon our proposed designs. * Production of Temporary Works Designs and checks. * Assist with or lead, a variety of projects to completion – including new product development and componentry testing. * Provide input into risk assessments as appropriate. * Task management and delivery to the highest standards, demonstrating all round technical competence and financial awareness. * Prepare client and project proposals, and you be required to attend occasional site meetings. * Responsible for ensuring the relevant structural consideration of existing and new products. * Support work winning teams to ensure the suitability of our proposed products for a potential client’s site environments. * To contribute to and to work towards the standardisation of our products. ? Skills: * A solution-oriented approach to tasks * ?Strong attention to all health & safety aspects of projects * Team player working within a multi-disciplinary team in the delivery of structural engineering projects. * High attention to detail. * Practical product/industry knowledge to understand customer’s constraints. * Proactive in addressing problem issues, presenting and pushing solutions. * An existing ability to provide wind loading calculations and to predict their effect upon proposed structures would be highly desirable. * Ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner with colleagues and clients. Qualifications: * Degree or equivalent in Engineering/Structural Engineering? * Ideally a master’s degree in Structural Engineering * Charted Status would be highly advantageous. ?Experience: * Experience in the construction industry. * Proven experience of structural steel and loading calculations. * Proven ability to apply BS Standards and Eurocodes to design applications. * Fully IT literate with experience of structural design software packages. ?Benefits: * Friendly working environment with strong employee engagement, and automatic enrolment onto company bonus scheme (after probationary period completed). * On-site free staff parking * Automatic enrolment into our contribution workplace pension plan and Medical Insurance Scheme (dependent upon eligibility) * Automatic enrolment into our BUPA Employee Assistance Programme * Cycle to work scheme * Company bonus scheme available (subject to terms and conditions) ? Please Note: Right to work in the UK is required. ? About Us: Westgate Global are market leaders in industrial/commercial partitions, hoarding and temporary buildings. Servicing the UK, Europe and beyond, we work with many large brands across a wide range of progressive sectors. With over 45 years’ experience delivering solutions from consultation to completion, we work together and use our combined expertise to provide the right solution to our customers’ problems. We are diligent and dedicated to product quality, performance and service excellence, with a sustained focus on enhancing customer and employee satisfaction. We are also Great Place to Work® Certified 2024. ? Recruitment Agencies: At Westgate Global, we take a very-hands on approach with our recruitment efforts to find the right person to join our team. As we organise our recruitment in-house, any emails/calls from recruiters regarding this role will not be acknowledged