Welcome letter from Ron Walton
Thank you for your interest in Align Property Partners. Align senior roles engineers.
As the Managing Director, I am very proud of the achievements of the organisation to date and I am very excited about its’ future prospects. Align has grown substantially since its’ inception in 2015 and we have a large volume of high profile projects in the pipeline, so these roles represent a fantastic opportunity to join us as we seek to embark on the next phase of our exciting growth plans.
We are at a critical stage in our development, poised for significant future growth, and so these senior roles will provide you with considerable autonomy to lead others and enable you to make critical decisions at a strategic level. We are one of the largest multi disciplinary organisations in the north of England and we provide a huge range of “one stop shop” design, consultancy and engineering solutions to a wide range of clients right across the public and private sector. The multi disciplinary team at Align includes Architects, Building Surveyors, Project Managers, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, Quantity Surveyors, and Property Advisors, as well as Structural Engineers.
Our size means that you will have the ability to play an important role in the running and development of the organisation. You will not feel like a small cog in a big wheel here – in fact, as Technical Director you will report directly to myself as Managing Director and operate at Board level. At Associate and Principal level you will enjoy similar strategic autonomy to run your own business and manage your own teams.
We have bases right across the North of England, and with hybrid working this means you can enjoy a genuine work/ life balance whilst enjoying a cutting edge career with fantastic prospects.
In addition, Align is wholly owned by North Yorkshire Council and so provides a highly stable foundation from which to build your career – regardless of the ups and downs of the economic climate.
Background of Align and Relationship with North Yorkshire Council
Align Property Partners started trading in November 2015 and is a Teckal company, wholly owned by North Yorkshire Council and forms part of the wider commercial group of companies known as the Brierley Group. North Yorkshire Council is a little different to what some might view as a typical public sector organisation – it is commercially focussed and has multiple successful commercial trading businesses already which means that commercial acumen and success will thrive in this context. You will not be restricted by public sector policy.
Being Teckal compliant allows Align’s shareholders to award contracts directly without procurement. The main benefit of this arrangement is that it ensures a long term, ethical and stable business, with unrivalled potential for commercial growth. This means that Align is in a rather unique position and can deliver high quality services whilst seeking out commercial opportunities to provide shareholder value and being wholly owned by North Yorkshire Council ensures stability in what can sometimes be a volatile market.
Align was established in 2015 and staff numbers have tripled since then, with a total of more than 105 to date. We provide a huge range of “one stop shop” design, consultancy and engineering solutions to clients across the public sector including North Yorkshire Council, as well as other local authorities based right across the northern region including Middlesbrough, Stockton, North Tyneside, Durham, Darlington, Barnsley, North Lincolnshire, Hull, Cumbria, St. Helens, Bury and Wigan.
It is also an exciting time as in April 2023 eight district, borough and county councils merged together to form the new North Yorkshire Council. This provides a platform to agree a devolution deal for York and North Yorkshire which could potentially unlock around £2.4bn of investment over 30 years, with a focus on improving the economic prosperity and future long-term opportunities for all residents. This presents a great opportunity for Align too.
We are a strong performing company with stable leadership team. We have talented teams providing the platform to have a fulfilling, challenging and successful career in a beautiful and accessible region.
If these interesting and unique roles sound appealing, I would very much like to hear from you. I am confident that the roles will provide an excellent platform for ambitious individuals as well as the opportunity to be part of an innovative, forward thinking team.
If you have a Degree in Civil Engineering (or equivalent) with 5 years+ Structural Engineering post-qualification experience or senior experience up to Head of Service/ Director level, please get in touch so that we can tell you a little but more about what we do.
Please liaise with our recruitment partners at The Resourcing Solution in the first instance. If you like the sound of what we do I would be delighted to meet with you for a coffee – I think you will be pleasantly surprised by what you hear.
Thank you and I look forward to receiving your application.
Ron Walton, Managing Director, Align Property Partners
About the roles - Align senior roles engineers.
Due to our continued expansion, we now have fantastic opportunities for highly experienced Structural Engineers to join our multi discipline workforce. We have the following opportunities available:
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Technical Director - Salary: £60k- £75k
plus benefits and relocation allowance -
Associate Structural Engineer - Salary: £60k - £68k
plus benefits and relocation allowance -
Principal Structural Engineer - Salary: From £50k
plus benefits and relocation allowance
Contract: Full-time (40 hours)/ Permanent
Location: Flexible across our office locations (3 days per week) and 2 days working from home with the requirement to attend our Northallerton office once a fortnight.
Office locations: Northallerton, Otley, Durham, Kendal, Cockermouth and Scarborough
Our experienced Structural Engineers develop innovative and affordable solutions to a wide variety of projects, overcoming challenges by providing a comprehensive advisory, feasibility and design service from conception to completion. We provide services to both new build and refurbishment across all the sectors for both public and private sector clients and include sustainable practice by integrating environmental considerations. The types of projects we are involved with include:
- New builds
- Conversions
- Renovations/Refurbishments
- Extensions
- Commercial and industrial design
- Existing building appraisal
Our range of Structural Engineering services include:
- Option appraisals
- Feasibility studies
- Design, procurement, management and assessment of Geotechnical Investigations
- Structural surveys and assessments
- State-of-the-art design service in all structural materials
- Substructure design
- Preparation of drawings and specifications
- Value engineering
- Technical audits
Align senior roles engineers.
As Technical Director you will report directly into the Managing Director and operate at the Board level, enabling you to play a strategic role in the running of the business.
In addition to working at the Board level, you will also be central to leading and overseeing the technical delivery of our schemes – we have an exciting and secured pipeline of long-term work and we will be looking to the Technical Director to ensure that these programmes are delivered on time and to budget. At Align we take pride in the quality of the projects we deliver.
Your role will include having complete oversight of the design and technical delivery of structural designs, calculations and drawings to relevant standards, including providing technical assurance of design, as well as assuming responsibility for the completion of specifically assigned tasks to programme and budget.
As Technical Director you will be part of a skilled and dedicated multi-disciplinary team of staff. This senior role will provide you with full autonomy to manage and mentor your team and their overall workload, ensuring they meet their objectives, as well as managing resources and finances.
The role represents a real opportunity to operate at the highest strategic level within a successful and secure business, with the autonomy to develop, shape and nurture your own team.
To be successful in this position, you will be able to demonstrate the following essential skills and qualifications:
About you
- A Structural engineering degree or equivalent with a vast amount of post-qualification experience in structural design
- Ideally, be a chartered member of the Institution of Structural Engineers or the Institution of Civil Engineers or willing to work towards this.
- Fully competent 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
- Sound knowledge and experience of dealing with statutory section agreements
- Significant experience in managing project delivery and managing people providing leadership within an engineering consultancy
- Skilled in leading and coordinating detailed designs and specifications using AutoCAD, Revit, Tedds, Tekla Structural Designer or similar software packages
- IT Literacy with excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Proficient at resource and financial management with the ability to work with clients to produce required scopes of works and fee proposals
- Actively progress business development opportunities and maintain good existing client relationships
- Ability to work closely and communicate effectively with clients and external consultants
As Principal or Associate you will lead project delivery and oversee schemes working collaboratively with other disciplines to ensure they are cost and time efficient.
You will use your significant engineering experience in your day-to-day workload as well as continuing and developing projects. You will oversee designs from feasibility to completion and whilst monitoring resources and finances. You will demonstrate initiative and leadership skills to positively inspire a successful team, as well as good organisational skills to manage your own personal workload, including significant design projects. As a leader you will also be responsible for mentoring and supporting other members of the structures team.
At Align we take pride the quality of the projects we deliver. You will be an integral part of a very busy and professional team who have a record of consistently meeting and exceeding their targets and who have the passion and determination to improve their service continually. This role also offers the opportunity to progress the business with new project and client opportunities.
To be successful in this position, you will be able to demonstrate the following essential skills and qualifications:
- Degree in Civil/Structural Engineering or equivalent with at least 5 year’s post-qualification experience.
- Ideally be a Chartered member of the Institution of Structural Engineers or the Institution of Civil Engineers or working towards this
- Experience in managing project delivery and providing team support within an engineering consultancy
- Skilled in taking a responsible role in coordinating detailed designs and specifications using AutoCAD, Revit, Tedds, Tekla Structural Designer or similar software packages
- Ability to work closely and communicate effectively with clients and external consultants
- Proficient in completing surveys and reports
- Fully competent 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
- IT literacy with excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Working knowledge of relevant UK standards, Eurocodes, relevant design guidance documentation and Building Regulations
- An understanding and appreciation for resource and financial management
In return for your commitment and on top of your salary we will enrol you to our pensions scheme, 25 days’ annual holiday, good maternity and paternity leave and flexible working arrangements.
We want to support you in a healthy work-life balance by offering a range of flexible working options which includes hybrid working, multiple office locations and flexible work schedules.
Other benefits include, but are not restricted to, reimbursement of professional membership or training fees when required for the role, free parking subject to availability, a commitment to staff development, public sector security in a private sector industry, cycle to work scheme as well as other discounts and benefits.
About Align
Align Property Partners hold a unique position of strength in the building design sector; our multi-disciplinary consultancy enables us to deliver total design solutions for our clients providing competitive advantage over single design firms, our size enables us to deliver agile, efficient services driving client value providing financial competitive advantage over the large national design firms.
We provide a wide ranging multi-disciplinary building design consultancy, consisting of Architects, Building Surveyors, Project Managers, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, Structural / Civil Engineers, Quantity Surveyors, Property Advisors, CDM and Fire Advisors. Our focus is to provide services to both the Private and Public sector clients throughout the North of England.
Our award winning, integrated multi-disciplinary team has over a decade of experience in delivering a wide range of building projects across many sectors.
We have worked hard to achieve ISO 9001 & ISO 14001 accreditation, as well as being corporate chartered members of professional organisations including the Royal Institute of British Architects.
We currently have offices in Northallerton, Kendal, Cumberland, Otley, Durham and Scarborough. Our award winning, integrated multi-disciplinary team has over a decade of experience in delivering a wide range of building projects across many sectors including, Infrastructure, Housing, Education, Industrial and public buildings.
We continue to grow through our success, having delivered over 1000 projects with a capital value in excess of £500 million to our clients.
We are constantly moving our business forward by continually developing our staff and utilising the latest technology including Building Information Management to ensure your solution is tailor made.
We support regional businesses by promoting further training and employment opportunities via our Apprenticeship scheme and structured sponsorship.
We are in the fortunate position of having a large number of public and private sector clients; these strong partnerships provide a stable platform to develop our company and grow our reputation. Although we are very much a stand-alone commercial organisation, the financial stability from our public sector contracts and public sector share-holder provides us with the resource to invest in ambitious growth.
Building on our track record of excellence, is what drives us. Our talented teams are individually creative and united in their ambition to push the boundaries in what we can achieve for our clients. We are ambitious and keen to further elevate our design excellence and innovation to be recognised as industry pioneers.
Align ensure collaborative working is at the heart of what we do.
Our team prioritises understanding your needs at the outset so that we can clearly define the expected outcomes. This way we can deliver the very best value project.
We aim to be the property consultant of choice, recognised for delivering high quality, excellent value solutions and a leading provider of professional design services.
Quality – We are passionate about great design
Innovation – We invest in training and new technologies to provide best value for our clients
Respect – We know that our reputation relies on the quality of service we provide you with
Honesty – We have an open and transparent relationship with our clients
Trust – We have demonstrable experience in timely and cost effective delivery of projects to our clients
We will align your aspirations with our expertise to ensure these become a reality.
Our focus now lies on realising the opportunity our unique position in the market provides us: achieving ambitious growth, continuing to develop our reputation and linking with new clients, and sectors such as LZC (Low or zero Carbon) sustainable solutions, delivering innovative client centred design solutions to expand our service offer.
When thinking about the future of Align Property Partners the following words come to mind: expansion, strength and excellence. We have already made significant progress in expanding our client base having recently opened offices in Cumbria and West Yorkshire. We are now looking to expand our services into South Yorkshire, along with a view to moving into Lancashire and beyond to realise our ambition to be the leading multi-design business in the North of England.
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Contact us
To arrange an informal confidential discussion about these opportunities, please contact Leanne Auton on 07815 028 548 or Leanne.Auton@northyorks.gov.uk or Ashley Benford on 07814 932 389 or Ashley.Benford@northyorks.gov.uk
Apply Now
To apply please provide us with your CV including a supporting statement in one Microsoft Word document. Your supporting statement should outline your motivation for applying and how you meet the criteria for the role. Please send your CV and supporting statement to Leanne.Auton@northyorks.gov.uk
Please also include the contact details of at least two referees including your current / most recent employer indicating whether you consent to us contacting each referee prior to the interview. Please also provide details of your current salary and notice period.
Align Property Partners is an equal opportunity employer and values 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.
We will not accept applications from agencies.
Key Dates
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Closing Date: Sunday 11 June at midnight
Please note that we will be organising interviews with suitable candidates upon receipt of application as the campaign progresses and therefore recommend that you apply as soon as possible.
