Senior Protective Design Engineer

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Our risk, security and resilience practice has helped organisations to understand their exposure to threats and make better risk-informed decisions since it was formed in the mid-1990s. Our team of experts are trusted advisors to private and public‑sector clients, providing strategic risk management, technical risk assessment, operational planning, security engineering and counter‑terrorism design measures that suit their business needs. Our team apply their knowledge, critical thinking and experience to help our clients to understand and anticipate what could go wrong, and we help with finding better solutions to ensure that risks are effectively managed and controlled.

Our team has consistently delivered high‑quality advisory and engineering services to clients across a range of markets and industries, including Rail, Energy, Data Centres, Highways, Healthcare, Property and Scientific research facilities, aviation.

You will be deployed to projects to further the development of our blast engineering services globally. Arup has one of the most significant protective design teams globally, with teams in London, Manchester, New York, San Francisco, Melbourne and Singapore working together as one global team.

Unlike traditional codified design, blast engineering requires a very different approach to the design but requires a designer’s empathy with regard to aesthetic, form and function of any proposed facility. As such, this is a great opportunity for an existing practitioner to build their professional and tactical position in the industry, or for a talented structural engineer to move up the food chain, provide strategic input and undertake first‑principles design as traditional forms of mainstream structural engineering design are increasingly being automated and undertaken by code‑compliant software.

• Provide technical input across a broad range of projects across the resilience, security and risk practice.
• Assist in the preparation of threat and vulnerability risk assessments for malicious threats (including terrorism, crime and civil disruption).
• Develop coherent, risk‑based security strategies and integrate protective design and/or blast engineering measures from concept through detailed design to construction.
• Carry out blast modelling using engineering software including computational fluid dynamic modelling and finite element methods.
  • Undertake: structural blast engineering design of a wide range of structures in common and novel engineering materials; façade blast engineering design of a wide range of glazed and non‑glazed façade systems; design of hostile vehicle mitigation measures.
• Prepare and deliver design documentation and specifications.
• Take a role in the growth of the resilience, security and risk business locally and globally, including client relationship management and identifying and developing new business opportunities.

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You will have the opportunity do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

We’re looking for candidates who:

• Hold a degree in civil/structural engineering with a strong track record in mainstream structural engineering design.
• Are chartered (or close to obtaining chartered status) structural engineers with a broad knowledge of structural engineering design and an interest in specialising in resilient structural design.
• Eligible for a UK Security Clearance. Eligibility requires a background check and usually requires a minimum period of residency in the UK.
• Experience in the design of structures in steel, reinforced concrete, timber and/or masonry in accordance with British Standards and…