Associate Structural Engineer

Location:  London (office based)
Job Type:  Associate
Level:  Chartered Member of IStructE or ICE
Experience Required:  10+ Years Delivering UK Projects

What Are We Looking For?

We are looking for a Chartered Structural Engineer (MICE or MIStructE) with significant UK consultancy experience, confident in leading teams and managing multiple concurrent projects. You will combine a high level of technical capability with excellent communication, leadership, and client-facing skills.

This role is ideal for someone already operating at Associate level or a Senior Engineer looking for a step up, who is ready to take on a broader strategic and management role within a collaborative and supportive design practice.

The successful candidate will have a range of experience to cover the below:

Core Technical Responsibilities

• Provide strategic oversight of technical delivery across all structural projects, ensuring engineering excellence and compliance with relevant codes, standards, and regulations.
• Lead the design of complex structures, offering direction on technical risk, innovation, and design quality.
• Set and maintain technical standards and quality control procedures across the structural engineering discipline.
• Act as a senior technical advisor on challenging or high-profile projects, providing solutions that balance safety, sustainability, and commercial viability.

Team Leadership and Knowledge Sharing

• Lead, inspire, and develop a high-performing structural engineering team, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and excellence.
• Mentor senior and associate engineers, supporting their progression toward chartership and leadership roles.
• Oversee internal training, CPD activities, and technical development strategies to continually raise capability and knowledge within the team.
• Promote a supportive and inclusive working environment that nurtures talent and encourages innovation.

Project and Client Management

• Oversee the successful delivery of multiple projects, ensuring high standards of client service, technical performance, and profitability.
• Maintain close relationships with key clients and stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor and project director.
• Guide project teams through complex design and delivery stages, including risk management, resourcing, and strategic decision-making.
• Support the resolution of major technical or site-related issues, drawing on extensive experience to inform practical and commercially sound decisions.

Commercial and Practice Development

• Drive business growth through client relationship management, networking, and winning new work via bids, proposals, and strategic partnerships.
• Lead commercial oversight of the structural team, including fee setting, financial performance, resource planning, and forecasting.
• Contribute to business strategy, practice development, and long-term planning at a senior leadership level.
• Champion the firm's brand, values, and vision internally and externally, representing the business at industry forums, events, and in the media where appropriate.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary with annual bonuses and performance reviews
• 24 days holiday + bank holidays (rising with service)
• Up to one month working remotely from anywhere in the world
• Private Pension scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Annual company trip abroad
• A collaborative, sociable team culture and opportunities for progression