Senior Design Engineer in London

Senior Design Engineer - Kentish Town, London

Would you like to join one of the UK's Best Big Companies as awarded by Best Companies? If so, we are looking for a Senior Civil & Structural Design Engineer to join our award-winning team in Kentish Town, London. Murphy Applied Engineering (In-house design consultancy) is renowned for its extensive expertise and positive contribution towards the ‘Better Engineered’ strategic driver and the Murphy group self-delivery model.

In this role, you will provide safe, economic and constructible solutions within project timeframes for the company’s Business Units delivering across a range of industry sectors including transportation, water, energy and power.

What you will be doing:

• Be MAE’s single point of contact to multiple projects with management responsibility for project deliverables and costs.
• Representing the MAE team in collaborative project team meetings.
• Undertaking site visits when appropriate.
• Collating feedback on solutions and contributing to lessons learned meetings.
• Preparing appropriate fully integrated permanent and temporary works proposals/solutions to meet the company’s bid and project delivery stage requirements.
• Managing the design work of other staff members and external designers.

Who are we looking for?

• A design engineer with the ability to manage projects from the design and cost perspectives.
• A design engineer with capability to work autonomously or as part of team.
• A good communicator with a desire to develop relationships across the company.
• A person with an open-minded approach to solving civil and structural engineering challenges to find the best solution from all perspectives of a project.
• A person keen to visit the company’s sites and offices across the south of the country.

What we offer?

• Stimulating working environment.
• Close working relationships with project delivery teams with significant opportunity to directly influence both permanent and temporary engineering solutions.
• Predominantly non-site based but with plentiful opportunity to visit the company’s projects.
• Payment of a single Chartered Institution fee.

About Murphy

Charity is at the heart of Murphy values; you will receive 2 days leave per year to donate your time to a charity of your choosing. Many teams choose to support a charity together to positively impact our communities.

Access to Murphy Wellbeing: you will have access to a host of online tools, mental health trained colleagues, and if needs be external professional support because we understand that work and life offers challenges that sometimes need a little extra support.

Murphy is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture, making Murphy a great place to work where we can all thrive. You can get involved in numerous events and even join our committee dedicated to continuously nurturing Murphy’s inclusive culture.

What you'll get in return

• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development.
• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service
• Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review
• Above market rate contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus
• Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus
• Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations
• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, cycle to work scheme

As part of our commitment to being an inclusive employer we are proud to have signed up to #BantheBoxUK and reduce barriers to employment for people with criminal records.

J Murphy & Sons Limited is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK

If you think Murphy is the place to help you thrive in a great team dedicated to delivery and engineering excellence and want to work in an inclusive team culture that rewards performance and drives personal development, apply today.

J Murphy & Sons Limited is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK