Career Opportunities

Structural Engineer
Job Description

October 2020

FLI structures are a steel fabricator, established for over 60 years. We have a modern facility based in Quedgeley, Gloucester. We have a staff compliment of around 70 with an engineering team of 8 members. We design, fabricate, supply and install towers and steel structures for telecommunications, rail signalling & OLE, highway signage support structures, steel grillages and combined pile solutions.

We are looking for a structural engineer to join our engineering team, where we design practically all our products in house, to suit our manufacturing processes. We have a strong emphasis on innovation and continuous improvement. The role includes the design of new structures and the re-analysis of existing towers to support the next generation of mobile phone antenna. Actual day to day work will be dictated by the business needs.

The person envisaged will hold a Civil, Structural or Mechanical Engineering degree preferably with a few years’ experience, ideally in a structural steel design environment. They should aspire to be chartered & we will support candidates working towards this.

Flexibility will be required in terms of working hours and locations. This role is primarily based in our office in Gloucester, but there may be occasional site attendance required.

The following are essential:

• A Civil, Structural or Mechanical Engineering Degree
• A good understanding of structural principles.
• A strong practical bias.
• Methodical and ordered

Experience in any of the following fields would be beneficial:

• Steel tower design to BS 8100.
• Proficiency in structural steel design, with a working knowledge of EN 1993 including the design of steel members and connections.
• Fatigue design to BS 5400-10 and EN 1993-1-9
• Experience in the Rail market, with knowledge of Network Rail approval procedures.
• Projects for the Highways Agency. Working knowledge of the approval procedures of BD2/12.
• Pile design. Knowledge of EN 1997-1 and its Design Approaches.
• Highways or Railways structure design
• Advanced knowledge of the Microsoft Office package. Ability of creating Visual Basic macros in Excel.
• Structural steel manufacture or installation.

Tasks will be dictated by the business needs and will vary from day to day. Typically these will be as listed below and roughly in the frequency in which they occur.

• Design of towers, masts, monopoles, screw piles, steel interface grillages, reinforced concrete foundations, driven piles, micro piles.
• Checking of other engineer’s calculations.
• Design and approval documentation for structures, piled foundations & grillages for rail, highways and other utility services.
• Liaising with the other teams in the organization, primarily the Drawing Office, Project Managers and Sales teams.
• Checking fabricated parts and answering fabrication queries.
• Being on call for the after-hours technical help line approximately one week in six.
• Liaising with clients as required, attending meetings, doing presentations, or visiting sites.
• Development of new products as required.
• Supervising installations of pile installations, but also rail and highways structures, towers and masts.
• Site attendance at short notice to resolve problems.

Conditions of Employment

The following are the most relevant conditions of employment. Full conditions can be discussed at interview and will be in the contract of employment.

· 25 days leave per annum (excluding bank holidays). 3 or 4 days are reserved for the company shutdown between Christmas and New Year.

· 40 hour working week, Monday to Friday 08H00 – 16H30 with a 30-minute lunch break.

· Pension Scheme in line with government rules.

· Normal place of work: Waterwells Drive, Gloucester.