Senior Drafter – Bridges and Structures

About BG&E

BG&E is an innovative, employee-owned consulting engineering business. Our team of more than 700 highly skilled people, in 15 offices across the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the Middle East, design and deliver engineering solutions for clients in the Property, Transport, Ports and Marine, Water, Renewables and Defence sectors.

We collaborate with leading contractors, developers, architects, planners, financiers and government agencies, to create projects that make a difference to people’s lives.

The Role:

Our London office is looking for a Senior Drafter able to work on Building Structures, Bridges and Civil Structures to form a key part of a growing team. 

We have a varied range of project opportunities in both scale and typology, in the buildings and infrastructure sectors including international high rise, significant adaptive re-use schemes, and various Hs2 opportunities. 

We work with a wide range of clients including major UK developers and contractors.

You will work with the Discipline Lead to deliver a varied portfolio of projects. Ideally you will be willing to deliver works related to main buildings, civil structures and bridges with a variety of materials including steelwork, reinforced concrete, masonry. You will also interface with other disciplines (including civil, façades, rail, geotechnical).

We are looking for an individual with strong technical skills coupled with excellent organisational and communication skills, gained in either a multi-disciplinary or engineering consultancy environment who now wants to enhance and diversify these skills within a growing organisation that will support their future development.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing supporting functions to the drafting team
• Preparation of engineering design layouts and detail designs
• Maintaining quality and technical standards with your work
• Interfacing with drafters, designers and engineers
• General design office duties

Essential to this position you will have:

• Structural or Civil Engineering study background
• 8+ years structural drafting experience with BIM level 2 modelling
• Experience in client facing roles and able to close out coordination issues with minimal designer input. 
• High attention to detail
• Strong time management and prioritising skills
• Well-developed interpersonal and verbal communication skills
• A practical approach

Not essential but desirable to this position:

• Professional qualification in a related field
• ProjectWise Common Data Environment (CDE) experience
• Site project or operations experience

Life at BG&E

• Vibrant central London location (London Bridge/Bermondsey).
• Competitive remuneration.
• Be part of a team of talented, dedicated engineers who bring a unique offering to the UK market.
• Close links with our offices in the rest of the world.
• Be part of a ‘can do’ philosophy.

Diversity and Inclusion

Equality is part of BG&E’s DNA. We value who you are – it begins with our values and continues through our culture – and is fostered throughout our workplaces. We recognise and celebrate difference and encourage our people and potential candidates to be comfortable in bringing your complete self to work.

Wellbeing, Health and Safety

We ensure our people enjoy healthy workplaces, deploy practices that reduce risk, comply with workplace Health & Safety regulations, impose zero harm to the communities that we operate in and support each other so we can all go home to safely every day.