Design Associate Director

Do you want to work for the UK’s market leading structural steel company?

We are looking for a Design Associate Director to join our site in Sherburn. You will be responsible for the running of a busy Design Team, this will require close working with peers to ensure adequate and appropriate engineering resources is allocated to support the Performance of programme that they are allocated.

Key Responsibilities:

- Programme and financial aspect of running a busy design office - training, recruitment, staff management
- Adhering to group standards
- Supporting various departments within the business
- sales and estimating, drawing office, project management
- Maintaining standards and procedures - ensuring compliance
- Resource, appoint and manage a sublet design team
- Coaching, mentoring and guiding of a team of graduates and more junior engineers
- Responsibility to educate team on current standards, ensuring compliance
- Co-ordinating with other departments - including construction, production and sales and estimating.
- Ultimate responsibility for Health and Safety - ensuring accuracy of the design team

Required Educational Background & Experience:

- Degree and Masters Educated
- Chartered Engineer more structural
- Istructe
- Institute of Structural Engineers and Civil Engineers
- Minimum 10-15 years experience working in design team in a structural steel background

The Working Hours for this role are: Monday - Thursday 8.15 - 17.00 with a 30 minute unpaid lunch break, Friday 8.15- 15.00 with a 45 minute lunch break.

In return Severfield offers a competitive salary and benefits package, this includes 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (pro rata) free on-site parking, access to our employee assistance programme and reward gateway which gives you discounts at top retailers. Working for the UK’s market leading structural steel company, you will have access to all of the company benefits.

Progression within Severfield is considered to be an important part of employee career growth and opportunities as they arise are made available to all to apply.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and actively encourage people from a variety of backgrounds, experiences and skill sets to join us. We are keen to hear from all applicants regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, religion or faith.

Since our inception, we’ve become internationally synonymous with quality, innovation, and unrivaled expertise within the steel industry. Today, with multiple sites in the UK and our India factory, we have an annual capacity to produce around 300,000 tonnes of fabricated steelwork.

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