Able to attend most sites unattended and advise clients.
Supervision, advising & Checking Structural Engineer in team’s work and calculations
Developing junior engineer
Teaching & mentoring junior engineers work
Ensuring that information and procedures are followed by engineer in team
Site visits are filed
Calendars are filled in
Calculations are correctly completed.
Design sheets are completed
Helping with additional fees
Helping engineers understand fee brief
Ensuring staff use the correct software for a project – Overview of designs
Development of engineers
Going to site with engineers to develop them
Helping in initial scheme production with junior engineers.
Have specialisms in certain areas.
Senior engineers are expected to know and implement good site safety and how their
designs impact upon site, the construction, maintenance and demolition of a project.
Monitor teams’ production of Designers risk assessments
Highlight if other engineers require further training.
Highlight if you consider other engineers are providing unsafe designs
Starting of business development.
networking meetings
Keeping details of client’s builder, architects etc.
Providing Fees. Senior engineers are expected to produce fees. They are expected to ask
the admin team for fees that are to be produced. They should not be waiting to be given
fees but providing them.
A senior engineer who receives a fee request from a Client is expected to return the fee
within 3-4 days. Checking of the fee by a line manager must be undertaken.
A fee target of a senior engineer is 20%-30% of their turnover = Salary * 2 to 2.25 * 20%
