Senior Structural Engineer

Our Business pxFairport (pxF) is a project delivery specialist offering full turnkey EPC and OEM solutions to the bulk material handling and plant processing markets. Our services cover the aggregates, processing, tunnelling, mining, quarrying, alternative fuels, waste-to-energy, ports, and food sectors, globally. With unrivalled industry expertise, pxF manages, specifies, engineers, designs, supplies, installs, operates, and maintains market leading equipment for complex material handling needs, guaranteeing performance excellence, reliability, and optimal operating costs. The Opportunity We are now recruiting for a Senior Structural Engineer to join our Sunderland Office. The primary purpose of the Senior Structural Engineer role is to design complex structures to the specified brief and produce the associated technical outputs e.g. calculations, analysis models, connection designs and structural reports. You’ll be supported with personalised on the job training, coaching, mentoring and twice-yearly development and performance reviews to help maintain & develop your contributions and competence. • Design and develop complex structures to the specified brief. • Produce analysis models in accordance with company standards to validate civil/structural • configurations, and to generate foundation loads. Ensure analytical models are transferring loads as • expected, and that axial forces and moments are fixed/ released as stability (& connection design) • demands. • Produce calculations in accordance with company standards to validate connection design. • Produce structural reports in accordance with company standards for inclusion into the project • technical file. • Prepare Civil/ Structural Basis of Design summary prior to commencing engineering works. • Manage technical outputs (calculations, analysis, reports, etc.) using company systems. • Undertake peer reviews of colleagues’ work (calculations, analysis, reports, etc.) • Check structural drawing output (as required) to ensure that the information within accurately • reflects analytical models and calculations. • Identify variations to contractual scope and escalate to the Project team. • Identification, and escalation, of all civil/ structural Technical Queries (TQ) that occur on the project. • Attend internal design review and scoping meetings. • Attend client meetings as requested by the Project Engineer. • Ensure design compliance with the project / task brief, relevant standards, and regulations. • Support CAT 2 / CAT 3 checking requirements with supplementary information as required. • Carry out analysis of designs with a view to improving safety, DfMA, and functionality. • Promote value engineering, standardisation, risk reduction, and a right-first-time approach. • Undertake site visits / condition surveys and prepare reports on findings to support successful • delivery of projects. • Support other areas of the business with information and guidance (steel weights, configurations,…