Facade Engineer
- Employer
- Lethaby & Cook
- Location
- London (City of), London (Greater)
- Salary
- To £70,000 - £90,000 per annum, plus pension, healthcare and bonus
- Closing date
- 16 Jan 2025
- Reference
- 5093
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- Sector
- Structural engineering jobs
- Function
- Structural Engineer
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Our client’s new London office is the headquarters for their work in the UK, mainland Europe and Asia. This is an opportunity for a façade engineer to join an established and highly regarded international consultant with a secure workload. The position offers meaningful change, an upper quartile salary and bright career prospects.
Your Role: Working alongside the head of façade engineering your role will have a forensic investigation emphasis, it is a varied and rewarding position, with a close working relationship with client companies. You will identify the root cause of problems affecting facades including design shortfalls, materials issues, structural failure and unsuitable construction methodology, you will then recommend the mitigation required. An external consultant is appointed to carry out the necessary design, you will peer review their work and, where required, provide technical advice at construction stages. Close support and guidance will be provided, you will apply all of existing skills from a new and intriguing angle. Occasional national and international travel will be required.
The Company: Their London office employs structural and façade engineers drawn from the consulting engineering sector, and architects. Employee owned, with over five hundred staff, they have decades of specialist expertise in forensic engineering, design, repair and research. They are leaders in façade engineering, building physics, architecture and conservation. Their forensic engineering and repair capability is considerable and supported by in-house laboratory, testing and research facilities. They have exceptionally low levels of staff turnover and are held in high regard by clients and employees. a robust, profitable sector that is in continuous demand, they are not subject to the same tendering and framework constraints that makes mainstream consulting engineering so competitive. This is an employer that can provide progression and security throughout economic cycles.
Your Profile: A façade engineer with at least five years design experience. Good analytical and lateral thinking skills are essential. You should be degree qualified, with a 2:1 or above, support and mentorship will be provided for you to achieve chartered status with the IStructE, ICE or RIBA.
Company
Lethaby & Cook’s civil engineering division places engineers and engineering managers with a high level of technical expertise. Our strength is our ability to present opportunities across a wider spectrum of employers who appoint civil and structural professionals.
Our clients include developers, design and build contractors, civil and structural consulting practices, insurers, client organisations and operating companies, loss adjusters, project managers, not for profit organisations, forensic engineers and more besides. By understanding how and where skills and experience can flourish we offer opportunities worth considering and candidates with real potential.
We place permanent and contract professionals and our recruiters are some of the most experienced to be found in their sectors. To find out more about current and forthcoming vacancies, or to discuss the next step in your career progression please do not hesitate to make contact by phone or email. We will always treat your enquiry and any information you may provide in the strictest confidence.
- Website
- http://www.lethabyandcook.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 020 8563 0596
- Location
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Barons Court
Hammersmith
London
W6 8RH
GB
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