Westlakes Recruit are currently recruiting for a Principal Seismic Civil & Structural Engineer based in Warrington.

Your role will be to lead civil engineering activities, delivering complex engineering solutions to time, cost and quality on projects of varying sizes. If you're familiar with project delivery, you'll know that they have lots of moving parts and complexity, which is why you'll be working alongside our Operations Managers and Engineering Managers to enable delivery of maximum value.

People are at the heart of everything we do
Centre to the success of the role will be your people skills, building effective relationships and interacting with multiple internal and external stakeholders in multiple locations.
You'll also work closely with colleagues to support activities that offer the best service to the client. Through your interactions, you'll be able to gather useful intelligence on client needs and work with the team to deliver innovative solutions.
You'll utilise your strong communication and engagement skills to achieve client, people and business outcomes, working with your team and peers that are based in different locations across the UK.
We're continuously evolving and growing the business, so there's plenty of opportunity to evolve and grow your skills and career too.
This role will be based at one of our Energy offices (Newcastle, Warrington, Gloucester, Bristol or Knutsford). We put flexibility at the heart of what we do and we're happy to consider flexible working patterns. Key responsibilities will be:

Working within integrated multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high profile projects
Manage programmes and resources, delivering to time and budget
Take ownership of technical challenges, develop a strategy and implement the solution through engagement with internal and external stakeholders
Deliver technical solutions, via analysis and design
Produce and review design deliverables (assumption notes, technical specifications and calculation notes, etc)
Work with international SMR developers to pass through the Office of Nuclear Regulation's Generic Design Assessment process
Review and justify design decisions to the ONR
Fulfil and take ownership of CDM responsibilities
Support preparation of fee proposals

Qualifications

MEng, MSc, BEng or BSc in Civil Engineering or other relevant degree level qualification
Chartered with relevant institution (e.g., ICE or IStructE)
Ability to work within, and where required, lead a design team, and also able to collaborate within multi-disciplinary teams
Previous experience in the design and/or construction of civil engineering solutions using American codes
SASSI 2000, ACS SASSI, SHAKE expertise
LS-DYNA expertise
Concrete design expertise (American Concrete Institute ACI 318, ACI 349)
Steel design expertise (American Institute of Steel Construction AISC 360, AISC 341, AISC N690)
Seismic analysis (American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE 4, ASCE 43, ASCE 7)
Understanding of the use of design tools within a BIM environment
Demonstrable experience in the design of heavy infrastructure projects, nuclear or regulated industry
Knowledge and understanding of UK Nuclear Regulatory process in field of civil engineering is desirable