Overview

Salary: £50,000 – £60,000 per year, dependent on skills and experience

Location: Durham, Northallerton or Otley, with hybrid working

Contract: Permanent, full time, Monday to Friday

Benefits: 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays’, company pension and other benefits

Role

We have an opportunity for a Principal Structural Engineer to join our multi discipline workforce at Align Property Services. You will lead on project delivery and work on a variety of schemes collaboratively with other disciplines to ensure they are both cost and time efficient. You will use your significant engineering experience in your day-to-day workload as well as continuing and developing projects, and you will oversee designs from feasibility to completion, whilst monitoring resources and finances. You will demonstrate initiative and leadership skills to positively inspire a successful team, who have a record of consistently meeting and exceeding their targets and are passionate in their determination to improve their service continually.

Align Property Services, who are we?

We are an award-winning building design consultancy and are proud to be recently named the Regional Energy Consultancy and Regional New Build Project of the year for our recent work with Darlington Borough Council at the North East Energy Efficiency Awards.

Align Property Services is a Limited Company, wholly owned by North Yorkshire Council and we are one of the largest multi-discipline building design consultancies in the North of England. We are collaborative in the way we work, offering a broad range of services in Architecture, Sustainability, Building Surveying, Project Management, Civil & Structural, Transport Planning, Bridges, Highways & Drainage Engineering, Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Quantity Surveying, CDM, Property Advisory & Estate Management.

We are dynamic and diverse in our approach to projects, from condition surveys of small garden retaining walls to designing multi-million-pound structures including schools, historic structures, fire stations, care homes and other public and commercial buildings across the UK. We are in continuous development of new projects with North Yorkshire Council and other public and private sector clients, and it is an exciting time to join us as we continue to evolve.

“Our people are what makes us who we are as a company”

Responsibilities and qualifications

• Hold a Degree in Civil or Structural Engineering or equivalent with a substantial amount of understanding and broad post-qualification experience within an engineering design consultancy.
• Be a Chartered Engineer as a member of the Institution of Structural Engineers or the Institution of Civil Engineers or currently working towards chartership.
• Have experience in managing multi-project delivery and providing team support.
• Be knowledgeable and proficient in relevant UK standards, Eurocodes, relevant design guidance documentation and Building Regulations
• Be skilled in coordinating detailed designs and specifications using first principles hand calculations and software such as AutoCAD, Tedds, Tekla Structural Designer or similar packages.
• Have the ability build strong working relationships and effectively communicate the wider team, clients and external consultants.
• Proficient in carrying out Structural condition surveys and reports.
• Demonstrate competency in the conceptual and detailed design of structural engineering projects, including new build projects, renovations of existing structures and extensive survey schemes with all forms of structural materials
• An understanding and appreciation for project programmes and budget constraints
• Be IT proficient, including the use of Microsoft packages
• Hold a full UK Drivers license

What we offer

How to Apply

To apply, please send your CV and Supporting Statement to Danielle McDowell (Resourcing Specialist) at danielle.mcdowell@northyorks.gov.uk. To discuss this position in more detail, or for any other questions, please get in touch with Danielle on 07977743718.

Closing date: Midnight on Monday 22nd of September 2025

Interviews are planned to take place throughout the recruitment process. We reserve the right to remove this vacancy in the event of the position being filled before the proposed deadline.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff. We welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, or belief. Please note, we will not accept applications from agencies and can only consider applications from individuals with right to work within the UK.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £50,000.00-£60,000.00 per year

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Durham DH1 5TP