Graduate Structural Engineer (Re-advertisement)

Job Description

An opportunity has arisen within Neighbourhoods, Regeneration and Sustainability for a Graduate Structural Engineer to join our Structural Engineering team on a permanent basis.

NRS brings together a diverse range of Glasgow City Council operational, technical and development services that focus on sustainable transport, place making and delivering essential city services.

If you’re interested in working within a service that touches on all aspects within the city, please read on.

 

Position Details

Helping to deliver the Council’s capital programme,  the postholder will have responsibility for helping the delivery of structural engineering related outputs to quality, time and cost across a portfolio of projects. You will support the structural engineering design lead, and you will liaise with architects, other engineering disciplines, and clients whilst carrying out design duties and participating in design meetings.

You will take an active role onsite during critical stages of construction to monitor quality and to provide technical support to contractors.  You will carry out structural design works including calculations, detailing and drafting. Additional duties may include structural investigations, site surveys and feasibility assessments.

A degree in Civil and Structural Engineering, or an HNC along with 2 years of relevant work experience is an essential requirement of this role. Due to the nature of the role it is also important that you have good communication and interpersonal skills to allow you to work effectively within project teams and liaise with clients.

Further details regarding what this role entails are noted within the Role Profile for the post, whilst the Person Specification document confirms the key competencies you are required to demonstrate in your application.

 

Contract Details

Weekly Hours: 35 per week

Work Pattern: Monday to Friday

Annual Salary: £32,024.87 - £36,151.72 on an incremental scale

Hybrid working is available in this role. If you’re shortlisted for the post, we look forward to telling you more about our approach to ensuring needs of the business are met along with flexibility to maintain your work-life balance through our family friendly policies, such as our flexible working procedure and work/life balance policy which are available here.

 

Requirements

Benefits of working with us

Glasgow City Council employees have access to a wide-ranging and generous benefits package.

Leave Entitlement

These include 182 hours paid annual leave, rising to 203 hours after 5 years’ service, as well as an 87.5 hours paid public holidays each year.

For staff working Monday – Friday, this works out as a starting annual leave entitlement of 26 days, rising to 29 days, and 12.5 days’ public holidays. For staff working a 4 on, 4 off shift pattern it works out as 18 shifts, rising to 20 shifts, and 9 shifts for public holidays.

These amounts are the full-time equivalent, and will be applied pro-rata for part-time appointments, and appointments made during the leave year which runs January – December.

Other Benefits

Details of some other staff benefits, including our contributory pension scheme, can be found here. Whilst details of our conditions of service and policies are available here.

For guidance on completing your application, and to view other benefits on offer for employees of Glasgow City Council, please visit the following link: https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/vacancies.

Please note this is a re advertisement and previous applicants should not re-apply.

Application Packs

We want everyone to be able to apply. If you need the Application Pack in another format, like Braille, large print, or another language, please call us on 0141 287 1054.

If we need to post it to you, we’ll send it by second-class mail within three working days. Please allow enough time to complete and return your application before the closing date. If you think you might need more time because of accessibility needs, please get in touch and we’ll be happy to help.

There are also a number of Accessibility Tools compatible with the myjobscotland website which may assist you with your application. More information on these can be found at https://myjobscotland.gov.uk/accessibility-statement.

Further Information

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