Principal Structural Designer

Overview:
Expleo is looking to recruit a Principal Structural Designer to deliver and grow our design support our marine and defence customer. This role is being offered on a contract basis (Inside of IR35) and fully remote.

**Main Purpose of Role**

Reporting to the Discipline Lead, you will lead and manage a team of Structural Designers who support numerous and varied projects. As a principal designer, you will promote a culture of best practice, be responsible for the allocation of design tasks to design resource within discipline and for providing specialist technical advice and guidance to others. You will diagnose and resolve complex design issues, lead the resolution of production & technical queries, approve discipline-specific design outputs, be accountable for the delivery of fit for purpose design outputs consistent with design brief, act as focal point for discipline estimating and ensure that procedures, codes and standards are correctly identified and applied to design activities.

**Responsibilities**:
**Key Roles and Responsibilities include**:

- Exercise care for own health and safety and that of others as defined by Health and Safety legislation, adhere to endorsed Company policy, procedures and delegations (e.g. Health & Safety, Diversity & Inclusion, Performance & Development Reviews and Finance etc.).
- Promote a positive culture of; ownership, responsibility and pride in discipline/team products.
- Allocate discipline tasks to allocated team of Designers, approve team design outputs, and ensure integration of inter discipline design in accordance with company and regulatory standards.
- Ensure selecting the correct methods and tools for tasks and provide technical guidance to allocated team of Designers.
- Ensure preparation/production of drawings in support of basic, detail and production design in line with recognised ISO standards and to the required; time, cost and quality requirements.
- Provide point of contact with professional engineering colleagues and various stakeholders for multi discipline related issues during design lifecycle, lead design reviews and ensure integration and functionality of design.
- Lead resolution of Production & Technical Queries & development of multi discipline solutions for the team in relation to manufacturing & installation issues
- Contribute to learning from experience (LfE) requirement during and post project.
- Assist with creation, reviewing and ongoing continuous improvement of discipline processes and practices.
- Develop innovative design solutions, and fulfil Design Lead responsibilities as assigned for multi discipline for highly complex and high risk projects.
- Continually seek to develop team of designers to their full technical capability through demonstrated leadership and coaching.
- Assist with Designer recruitment.
- Support discipline capability review and PTS cycle.

Qualifications:
**Qualifications**

**Skills**:**Required Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Competences**

To undertake this role, you need to possess the following:

- Incorporated Engineer status, or willing to work toward.
- A sound understanding of specific design practices as relevant to individual and related discipline, post and project requirements;
- A sound understanding of Company and departmental procedures relating to Design, Health & Safety and Quality requirements;
- Experience of design support to the operation, refit or repair of nuclear submarines and complex warships.

As well as being part of a business that continues to win new work and grow at a significant pace, we’ll also provide you with all the training, support and benefits that you’d expect from a global company.