Principal Engineer

June 21, 2025
£40000 - £40000
Urgent

Job Description

Principal or Senior Engineer

Our client operates a fleet of rental equipment, largely comprising of structural support products, these are designed and arranged into configurations to provide temporary works solutions for their clients.

As Senior or Principal Engineer, you will be in a senior role within the core shoring team, providing and checking high quality designs. The core shoring team provides temporary works designs and technical support for the UK and Ireland.

You will have worked previously in a similar role. The seniority level of the job role will depend upon your experience and qualifications.

Key Responsibilities

  • To manage the workload and take a leading role in the day to day operation of the engineering teams. Competence in both structural and geotechnical design.
  • To produce high quality design solutions in a timely manner whilst ensuring all proposed designs are fully compliant with all current regulations and best practices.
  • To design highly complex schemes (Cat3) and checking moderately complex schemes (Cat2).
  • To provide supervision, training and mentoring to Graduate and Design Engineers.
  • To be a key point of contact and technical support for our sales team and clients.

What We re Looking For

  • You will have a minimum of 3 years experience with design of temporary works in accordance to relevant standards.
  • You will be keen to help drive forward continuous improvements using your own ideas to improve the quality, accuracy and ease of design production.
  • You will have the ability to organise your own time and others well.
  • You will be driven to improve existing ways of working and contribute to the technical team in a collaborative way.
  • Autodesk Revit & AutoCAD
  • Design software (Wallap, CADs)
  • MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams etc.
  • IEng desirable but not essential (dependent on seniority)
  • Full Driving License

What We Can Offer You

  • Salary sacrifice pension
  • Company car
  • 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
  • Additional holiday purchase scheme
  • Free Tool Hire
  • Life Assurance cover 3x salary
  • Share save scheme
  • Eye care vouchers, Recommend a friend scheme ,Learning & Development commitment to upskilling and developing our people, structured in house training available alongside external training where required, Cycle to work scheme, Long service recognition
  • A variety of discounts and rewards on thousands of well-known brands
  • Discounts on HP products
  • EE mobile contract discount offers Gym discountsHealth Shield (discounted premiums on health care cash plan)Regit Assist 24/7 accident helpline free joining

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