Drafter - Structures

About BG&E

BG&E is an innovative, employee-owned consulting engineering business. Our team of more than 900 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 Structural Drafter to form a key part of a growing team. We have a varied range of project opportunities in both scale and typology, including international high rise, significant adaptive re-use schemes, detailed design work and niche architectural projects. We work with a wide range of clients including major UK developers and contractors.

You will work with the Structures’ Lead to deliver this varied portfolio as well as liaising with the other disciplines in our team as necessary (we offer civil, façades, infrastructure and bridge engineering as well as geotechnical consultancy).

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
• 2+ years structural drafting experience with BIM level 2 modelling and preferably in Revit
• Experience and drafting capability in CAD
• Have the appetite to grow into a team lead role and mentor the rest of team
• 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.