Major Recruitment are currently recruiting for a Graduate Design Engineer to join a well-established engineering company in Oldbury, West Midlands on a permanent basis.
Reporting into the Office Manager the Graduate Design Engineer will work as part of the design team specialising in lightweight structural building solutions
Duties & responsibilities of the role:
- Management of projects through company design and drawing office
- Design of medium rise building structures and secondary structural support systems
- Clearly communicate designs and concepts to customers
- Provide technical support and advise to the team of Regional Sales Managers, including general structural, fire, acoustics and thermal issues (Training will be provided)
- Represent the company at design team meetings and site visits when necessary at various locations across the UK.
Candidate specification:
- Student or Graduate member and working towards Chartered status through the IStructE or ICE
- Have a minimum 2:1 BEng/Meng in Civil, structural or Mechanical Engineering
- The ideal candidate would have some experience working with BS5950, BS8110, BS5268, (Knowledge of Eurocodes, especially 1 & 3 would be advantageous)
- Structural design of a variety of building structures in all materials, but ideally with a focus on steel
- Have commercial awareness
- Be familiar with AutoCad (knowledge of Revit would be an advantage)
- Have the ability to form good working relationships with customers
- Be well organised, self-motivated, professional and able to work under pressure
- Be responsible for achieving objectives on own initiative, as well as part of a team
- Be computer literate and able to communicate design principles
- Attention to detail, accuracy and mathematical analysis
Salary, working hours and benefits:-
- £23,000 – £30,000 per annum dependent on experience
- Hours of work: Monday to Thursday 08:30am to 5:00pm with half and hour lunch each day and 08:30am to 1:30pm with no lunch break on Friday of each week – 37 hours in total
- Company Pension Scheme
- Health cash plan
- Life assurance
- 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
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