Senior Design Engineer

Job Description Sterling Recruitment Services are looking to recruit a Senior Design Engineer for our growing client based in Leeds.\n\nWorking hours:\n8am - 5pm, Monday to Friday\n\nSalary: Competitive (DOE)\nBenefits: Discretionary bonus, life Assurance (x4 salary), generous pension, best practice awards / vouchers, employee assistance programme, an array of perks via Perkbox, 31 days annual leave (inc bank holidays)\n\nRole Summary:\nThe role will require you to develop designs for tunnels and shafts construction in the UK and internationally. You will have a fundamental understanding of Geotechnical properties for underground construction as well structural design capability. All tunnel design requires an assessment of the impact of tunnelling activity on other third-party assets and thus require third party approvals.
Good report writing skills is expected with a sound understanding of the design processes to report and present designs to statutory authorities such as National Highways or Network Rail and the like.\n\nTypical application:\nShaft design, including buoyant stability, jacking collars, reinforced concrete bases, tremie plugs, cover slabs opening support structures\nTunnel designs for Timber Headings, Micro-tunnelling/Pipe-jacking,\nHDD design\nThrust walls, head walls, launch frames, pipeline proof loads\nExcavation Stability and support, with a thorough understanding of geotech...