Structures Team Leader
| Posting date: | 21 July 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 August 2025 |
| Location: | Kent, TN14 5EL |
| Company: | FM Conway |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ORG1531-MH1358199SevSTL |
Summary
FM Conway is currently seeking an experienced Structures Team Leader to join our Consultancy division. As our Structures Team Leader, you will lead a team of designers and inspectors with a primary focus on highway structures. In this role, you will provide technical leadership, ensure successful project delivery, and support team development within a collaborative, safety-focused environment. You will also oversee technical direction, coordinate with clients, contractors, and FM Conway divisions, including Term Maintenance, Structures, and Lighting and address technical issues as they arise. This is a full time, permanent position based from our Head Office in Sevenoaks, Kent.
The duties of the Structures Team Leader role will include:
- Developing a team of structural designers and inspectors, promoting continuous improvement and professional growth
- Developing excellent and effective collaborative relationships with key stakeholders and external providers
- Overseeing the planning, designing, and delivery of highway structures projects, ensuring adherence to schedules, budgets, and quality standards
- Carrying out monthly programme and financial reporting
- Liaising with the client team on progress
- Preparing reports, drawings, schedules, bills of quantities, cost estimates and other documents in accordance with local procedures
What skills and experience do you need?
We are looking for a Structures Team Leader who is either a Member of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) or a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Civils Engineers (ICE) or an equivalent professional status. You will also have significant experience in structural engineering and experience leading a team of engineers. The successful candidate will be familiar with local government and private sector clients, with good working knowledge of different contract types, including NEC3.
What benefits will you receive?
As our Structures Team Leader, we will offer you a range of fantastic benefits including career and professional development, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, company bonus, life assurance, pension contribution and opportunities for internal and external training and access to a wide range of shopping discounts through our Rewarding Great People platform. We will also offer you a range of health and well-being benefits including 24-hour advice lines, access to our free on-site gym at our head office in Sevenoaks and support from our in-house mental health first aiders.
A brief introduction to FM Conway and our Consultancy Services Division
FM Conway is business of families with over 60 years’ experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care, Innovation, Integrity and Excellence. As a family business the heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family.
The Consultancy Services division offer specialist design services to several high-profile clients across London and the South East. We are a dynamic team covering urban realm, private developer, HVM and maintenance schemes. As a division, we are constantly looking to improve our offer to our clients. We are involved in new initiatives including the design and production of new surfacing materials through to using A.I. to undertake highway inspection.
So, if you would like to Join our Family as our Structures Team Leader then please click ‘apply’ today, we’d love to hear from you!
Closing Date: 21/08/2025
FM Conway is an award-winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life. EDI-Strategy
At our heart we are a family that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for.
We look forward to receiving your application!
The duties of the Structures Team Leader role will include:
- Developing a team of structural designers and inspectors, promoting continuous improvement and professional growth
- Developing excellent and effective collaborative relationships with key stakeholders and external providers
- Overseeing the planning, designing, and delivery of highway structures projects, ensuring adherence to schedules, budgets, and quality standards
- Carrying out monthly programme and financial reporting
- Liaising with the client team on progress
- Preparing reports, drawings, schedules, bills of quantities, cost estimates and other documents in accordance with local procedures
What skills and experience do you need?
We are looking for a Structures Team Leader who is either a Member of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) or a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Civils Engineers (ICE) or an equivalent professional status. You will also have significant experience in structural engineering and experience leading a team of engineers. The successful candidate will be familiar with local government and private sector clients, with good working knowledge of different contract types, including NEC3.
What benefits will you receive?
As our Structures Team Leader, we will offer you a range of fantastic benefits including career and professional development, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, company bonus, life assurance, pension contribution and opportunities for internal and external training and access to a wide range of shopping discounts through our Rewarding Great People platform. We will also offer you a range of health and well-being benefits including 24-hour advice lines, access to our free on-site gym at our head office in Sevenoaks and support from our in-house mental health first aiders.
A brief introduction to FM Conway and our Consultancy Services Division
FM Conway is business of families with over 60 years’ experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care, Innovation, Integrity and Excellence. As a family business the heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family.
The Consultancy Services division offer specialist design services to several high-profile clients across London and the South East. We are a dynamic team covering urban realm, private developer, HVM and maintenance schemes. As a division, we are constantly looking to improve our offer to our clients. We are involved in new initiatives including the design and production of new surfacing materials through to using A.I. to undertake highway inspection.
So, if you would like to Join our Family as our Structures Team Leader then please click ‘apply’ today, we’d love to hear from you!
Closing Date: 21/08/2025
FM Conway is an award-winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life. EDI-Strategy
At our heart we are a family that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for.
We look forward to receiving your application!
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