Associate - Structural Engineering

Your role:

• Support Atkins in managing, leading, and developing the Structural Engineering team to ensure a continued high level of technical creativity, quality and commercial performance.
• Become an industry leader within Structural Engineering for Atkins in the Middle East and drive our expertise out into the market both for clients in developing new business opportunities and additionally to peers across the industry.
• Experience in design leadership, presentations, collaboration, structural calculations, reports, specifications and overseeing the delivery of our REVIT/BIM teams.
• Encourages the development of innovative ideas and approaches in creating competitive advantages, value creating client solutions and in generating new sources of revenue.
• Mentor and assist the team members for career development with a particular focus on technical and managerial advancement, employee engagement and instilling a sense of ownership of projects. Identify requirements for skill enhancement.
• Speaks and/or presents at internal and/or external conferences/events/client seminars and, depending on the consulting discipline and market sector, may also have works published in professional journals and publications.
• Assists on consulting, business development, client development initiatives and portfolios to assist with the development of sustainable and profitable client relationships, new sources of revenue and operational efficiency.
• Maintain accurate project records for monthly recording of revenue, forward planning in relation to orderbook and revenue/resource forecasting. Assist with and control the commercial management of the team to ensure costs in line with revenue.
• Monitor project progress against expected programmes and manage resource levels accordingly.
• Manage project delivery, maintain collaboration of multi-disciplinary design work to ensure efficient, innovative, and coordinated solutions are produced in accordance with the appropriate Quality Management procedures.
• Manage coordination of work undertaken by other Atkins business units, external sub-consultants, and third-party design reviewers.
• Adapt to different cultures and working environments with the ability to work under pressure, in addition, being flexible to travel across the GCC to support project requirements.

About you:

• Masters/Bachelor's degree in Structural Engineering with >15 years' experience.
• Professional Chartered with an Internationally recognised institution.
• Has significant professional consulting experience of operating within challenging consulting environments and where a significant component of that experience should be from the management and/or solution designs as well as from the management of projects and tenders.
• Has widespread experience of taking the lead on consulting projects, motivating teams and in acting as an engineering/technical/functional resource.
• Demonstrates strong consulting and business acumen as well as strong engineering, technical and functional acumen, in relevant domains of knowledge.
• Good organisational and interpersonal skills and the ability to work well under pressure.
• Has excellent English language skills (written and oral), coupled with strong communication (written and oral) and negotiating skills.