Design Engineer

About the role

Severfield's Commercial & Industrial division designs, fabricates and constructs structural steelwork for a variety of different sectors including commercial offices, stadia & leisure, industrial & distribution, data centres, retail and health and education. The division has manufacturing sites in three locations: Dalton, Lostock, and Enniskillen. Each has full-service capabilities and modern manufacturing processes enabling us to provide a high-quality product to a variety of different sectors. Each of our sites has its own strong reputation in the market and between them cover a wider geographical area, including Europe. They continue to set the bar high in their highly complex market!

Responsibilities

• Deliver engineering calculations and solutions as part of a multidisciplinary design team.
• Undertake secondments to other departments (e.g. site, estimating, contract management) to support learning and project delivery.
• Provide structural design services, including member design, connection design, and temporary works.
• Support tender-stage design development and produce structural input where required.
• Assist in the development and standardisation of structural detailing aligned with the company's manufacturing and erection methodologies.
• Liaise with clients, architects, and structural consultants to develop viable structural schemes for awarded contracts.
• Collaborate effectively with internal departments, including contracts, manufacturing, and site erection teams.
• Clearly communicate engineering solutions using appropriate drafting techniques and maintain high standards of documentation and calculation accuracy.
• Guide and support Graduate Design Engineers in their professional development.
• Assume responsibility for running assigned projects and stepping into leadership duties within the design team when required.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in a structural steel design environment.
• Degree in Structural Engineering required; Master's preferred but not essential.
• Chartered or working toward professional engineering accreditation (e.g., MIStructE, MIEI, MICE).
• Demonstrated competence in producing design solutions from concept through to construction.
• Experience will be considered alongside ability and attitude when appointing to this role.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday
• 7% employer pension contributions
• Employee assistance programme (EAP)
• Employee benefits scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Save as you earn
• Free onsite parking (role specific)
• Business health insurance