Associate Structural Engineer

Job Description

Are you an innovative structural engineer, trusted by clients to lead their projects, a team leader and caring mentor for your staff? Are you looking for an opportunity to influence a more sustainable future, through designing buildings that are efficient in form and function, use materials wisely, minimise embodied carbon and delight their users? Are you looking for a workplace with a strong culture that values the individual development, that celebrates diversity, delivers through collective skill and expertise, where excellence is our benchmark?

If this sounds like you, or you’re curious to learn more, then this role could be the perfect opportunity. Join our Building Structures team in Birmingham as our new Associate and work with us to close the gap to a sustainable future.

Your new role

Your key responsibilities will be:

Lead the structural design of projects in diverse sectors and scale form £5M to £150M.

Manage a team of engineers and technicians locally, nationally, and internationally to deliver your projects to programme, to an excellent standard and within budget.

Contribute to the team management. As part of the leadership team, you will have responsibilities for nurturing staff development through training and mentoring, manage resource allocation, ensuring quality and driving innovation.

Attract clients that share our values, by building and maintaining excellent client relationships, bid development and business development activities.

You will join our Building Structures department

As our new Associate Structural Engineer, you will be part of our Birmingham office which has doubled in number to approximately 130 in three years. Our buildings team includes structural, civil, building services, Facades and Acoustics, working alongside colleagues in Environmental and Health and Infrastructure, collaboratively sharing skills and services that deliver a one-stop engineering design service to our clients.

Our Civil & Structural team is approximately 30 strong and growing. We are delivering exciting landmark local and national projects. We work in all market sectors including Sci-Tech and Hi-tech industrial, commercial, schools and higher education, sports and arenas, residential, commercial and the creative arts. Our delivery is streamlined through effective processes so that you have space to explore. You will have the best tools and encouraged to promote digital innovation, to be multi-disciplined in your approach and be creative. Sustainable design is at the heart of our values. You will explore with our clients how sustainable design adds value to their business. We operate a fun and inquisitive office environment and actively encourage design flair; we are recognised for our bold innovative approach, that is underpinned by our Scandinavian design heritage and foundation ownership.

About you

From the moment you start at Ramboll, we will support your personal and professional development so that you can continue to grow with the company. Whilst we look forward to supporting your continued learning and development, for this role we have identified some qualifications, skills, and capabilities that will set you up for success.

These include:

You will be Chartered Structural Engineer with at least 15years experience.

Educated to a degree level or equivalent in structural / civil engineering.

Relevant experience in a variety of sectors such as schools, higher education, residential, commercial or industrial development.

Demonstrable experience of managing teams of engineers and technicians across multiple consecutive projects.

An ability to design conceptually, with an appreciation of multi-discipline coordination and known for delighting architects through capture and development of their ideas.

Be an effective communicator, both written, and verbally and through digital media.

Be experienced at planning and monitoring the commercial performance of an engineering consultancy as a business including contract management.

Your key deliverables over the first 12-24 months will be:

Energetically play a central and leading role in a Structures team, contributing to team morale and fostering collaboration

Manage the delivery of numerous projects, at all stages of design and construction.

Be responsible for ensuring accurate designs delivered to an excellent quality. 

Create, develop and grow business value from existing client relationships, effectively leveraging capabilities across the Ramboll portfolio to the benefit of the client by demonstrating marketplace knowledge and insight.

What we can offer you:

A competitive salary

A flexible work environment

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Matched pension contributions

Private medical cover and life assurance

Investment in your development

Leaders you can count on, guided by our Leadership Principles

Be valued for the unique person you are

Never be short of inspiration from colleagues, clients, and projects

The long-term thinking of a foundation-owned company

Work at the heart of sustainable change

Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company. We believe that the purpose of sustainable change is to create a thriving world for both nature and people. So, that’s where we start – and how we work. At Ramboll, our core strength is our people, and our history is rooted in a clear vision of how a responsible company should act. Being open and curious is a cornerstone of our culture. We embrace an inclusive mindset that looks for fresh, diverse, and innovative perspectives. We respect, embrace, and invite diversity in all forms to actively cultivate an environment where everyone can flourish and realise their full potential.