Senior Structural Engineer (Chartered) – Team Lead
White & Lloyd | Thames Ditton, Surrey | Full-time | Office-based | £DOE + bonus
About White & Lloyd
White & Lloyd is a multidisciplinary construction consultancy providing Structural Engineering, Quantity Surveying and Building Surveying services across London and the Southeast. We work on technically interesting projects from high-end residential homes and listed buildings to commercial refurbishments, schools and community buildings, with our engineers involved from feasibility through design, procurement and construction.
Unlike most structural practices, our engineers sit alongside in-house Quantity Surveyors and Building Surveyors, so they see and influence the commercial side of every project, not just the calculations.
The Role
We are investing in our Structural Engineering team and want a Chartered Structural Engineer to lead it. This is a leadership appointment, not just a senior technical seat.
You will inherit a small, established team of engineers and technicians, including dedicated drafting support, and take ownership of how the discipline runs: technical standards, client relationships, workload, and direction. A core part of your mandate, with the firm's full backing, is to shift our project mix toward larger and more rewarding commissions. You will stay hands-on technically while you do it.
If you are currently a strong senior engineer at a larger consultancy waiting your turn to lead, this is the role that skips the queue.
What You Will Be Doing
Leadership
- Run the day-to-day operation of the Structural Engineering team
- Allocate workload and keep projects properly resourced
- Mentor and develop junior engineers
- Set the standard for how the team communicates with clients
Technical
- Act as senior technical authority across our engineering projects
- Review and approve designs, calculations and reports before issue
- Guide work across residential, commercial, heritage and refurbishment projects
- Keep designs practical, buildable and compliant
Clients and Commercial
- Be the principal point of contact on live engineering commissions
- Make sure client queries are answered promptly, tracked, and charged where appropriate
- Build relationships with clients, architects and contractors
- Scope and price new commissions, monitor delivery and profitability
- Work with our QS and Building Surveying teams on multidisciplinary jobs
- Help win the bigger work the team will grow on
Our Projects
Prime residential developments, major refurbishments and structural alterations, basement extensions, listed buildings and heritage structures, commercial fit-outs, schools and community buildings, structural inspections and defect investigations, temporary works advice. Project values range from £100,000 to £15 million, and growing the upper end of that range is part of this job.
What We Are Looking For
- Chartered Structural Engineer (MIStructE or MICE). We will consider recently chartered engineers with the right drive as readily as long-established ones
- Solid structural design experience across residential, refurbishment and commercial work
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers, or clear readiness to step up
- Strong client-facing communication and commercial awareness; this matters as much as the engineering
- Comfortable taking ownership and making decisions without waiting to be told
- Within a reasonable commute of Thames Ditton and happy to be in the office most of the week. This is a leadership role, and the team needs a present leader
What Success Looks Like
Within twelve months you will be the trusted lead for the discipline, clients will know you by name, queries will run through a managed process, the juniors will be developing under you, and the project mix will be moving visibly toward bigger work.
What We Offer
- Salary depending on experience, plus performance-related bonus
- Genuine autonomy to run and shape the team as your own
- Share options available for the right candidate on achievement of pre-agreed company goals.
- Varied, technically interesting projects with an established QS and Building Surveying practice behind you
- Company pension, professional subscriptions paid, ongoing CPD.
- Generous holiday package, gym membership, Bike 2 Work scheme and Car Salary sacrifice scheme.
If you are a Chartered Structural Engineer who wants to lead a team properly rather than wait for the chance, we'd like to hear from you.
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee mentoring programme
- Flexitime
- Gym membership
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Experience:
- Structural Engineering: 5 years (required)
- Leading an Engineering Team: 2 years (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- Structural Engineering Chartership (preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Thames Ditton KT7 0SD
