Team Overview:
The Design department is responsible for developing innovative, practical, and fully coordinated mechanical and electrical building services solutions tailored to each project. Working closely with clients, project teams, and the BIM department, the design team transforms concepts into detailed, build-ready technical designs that meet regulatory standards, client specifications, and sustainability goals. Their work underpins the technical accuracy and efficiency of our installations, ensuring seamless integration from planning through to construction.
Role Overview:
The role will require the engineer to act as the structural control point between engineering design, BIM, fabrication, production, transport and site installation. The successful candidate must be capable of developing practical, buildable steelwork solutions for offsite-manufactured plantrooms, pipework supports, gantries, access steelwork and associated secondary structures.
The candidate should be comfortable designing structures not only for their final operational condition, but also for fabrication, handling, transport, lifting and temporary installation conditions.
The role requires strong first-principles engineering judgement, with the ability to develop bespoke structural solutions where standard details or catalogue systems are not directly applicable.
The candidate must be capable of reviewing fabrication drawings, connection details, weld requirements, tolerances and site installation details to ensure the structural design intent is correctly transferred into manufacture.
Job Title | Senior Structural Engineer
Location | Head Office, Banbridge
Hours | Monday-Thursday 8am-5pm and Friday 8am-3pm
Salary | Competitive Depending on Experience
Responsible to | Principle Structural Engineering Design Manager
Experienced in delivering structural design and assessment work for decarbonisation projects, including plantrooms, steel support frames, gantries, pipe supports, access platforms and secondary steelwork. Skilled in assessing existing buildings and structures for new plant, equipment, PV systems and associated installations, with design capabilities across steel, concrete, masonry and timber structures. Proficient in preparing structural calculations, technical reports, sketches and design reviews, while checking fabrication drawings, connections and layouts for compliance with design intent. Strong coordination experience working with BIM, MEP, fabrication and site teams to develop practical, buildable solutions, including consideration of temporary works, lifting and installation sequencing. Experienced in conducting site surveys, responding to client and contractor queries, and ensuring all structural solutions prioritise safety, buildability, maintenance and long-term performance.
With over 20 years of experience within the Commercial Offsite Fabrication industry, Alternative Heat have established themselves as a market leader in this sector.
Located centrally between Dublin and Belfast our 8.5 acre Head Office and fabrication facilities, which are fully equipped with overhead cranes and 8,000m² of workshop floor area, provide an ideal factory construction environment which is reflected in the high quality solutions we offer.
We employ a strong team of design engineers, CAD technicians, contracts managers and skilled trades personnel who utilise their vast industry experience to assist in the design, fabrication and delivery of our bespoke MEP solutions, which we supply throughout the UK, Ireland and Europe.
