Application Deadline: 8 May 2026
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Adlington
Our Business
pxFairport (pxF) is a project delivery specialist offering full turnkey EPC and OEM solutions to the bulk material handling and plant processing markets. Our services cover the aggregates, processing, tunnelling, mining, quarrying, alternative fuels, waste-to-energy, ports, and food sectors, globally. With unrivalled industry expertise, pxF manages, specifies, engineers, designs, supplies, installs, operates, and maintains market leading equipment for complex material handling needs, guaranteeing performance excellence, reliability, and optimal operating costs.
The Opportunity
We are now recruiting for a Senior Structural Engineer to join our Adlington Office.
The primary purpose of the Senior Structural Engineer role is to design complex structures to the specified brief and produce the associated technical outputs e.g. calculations, analysis models, connection designs and structural reports.
You’ll be supported with personalised on the job training, coaching, mentoring and twice-yearly development and performance reviews to help maintain & develop your contributions and competence.
• Design and develop complex structures to the specified brief.
• Produce analysis models in accordance with company standards to validate civil/structural
• configurations, and to generate foundation loads. Ensure analytical models are transferring loads as
• expected, and that axial forces and moments are fixed/ released as stability (& connection design)
• demands.
• Produce calculations in accordance with company standards to validate connection design.
• Produce structural reports in accordance with company standards for inclusion into the project
• technical file.
• Prepare Civil/ Structural Basis of Design summary prior to commencing engineering works.
• Manage technical outputs (calculations, analysis, reports, etc.) using company systems.
• Undertake peer reviews of colleagues’ work (calculations, analysis, reports, etc.)
• Check structural drawing output (as required) to ensure that the information within accurately
• reflects analytical models and calculations.
• Identify variations to contractual scope and escalate to the Project team.
• Identification, and escalation, of all civil/ structural Technical Queries (TQ) that occur on the project.
• Attend internal design review and scoping meetings.
• Attend client meetings as requested by the Project Engineer.
• Ensure design compliance with the project / task brief, relevant standards, and regulations.
• Support CAT 2 / CAT 3 checking requirements with supplementary information as required.
• Carry out analysis of designs with a view to improving safety, DfMA, and functionality.
• Promote value engineering, standardisation, risk reduction, and a right-first-time approach.
• Undertake site visits / condition surveys and prepare reports on findings to support successful
• delivery of projects.
• Support other areas of the business with information and guidance (steel weights, configurations,
• engineering time, and concept designs)
• Provide support, guidance, and mentorship to junior team members when required.
• Support the rectification of any NCR raised against the department.
• Participate & contribute to any lessons learned and continuous improvement meetings.
• Support the development of processes to improve efficiency and project delivery.
• Deliver work in alignment with the business’ ISO 9001 processes and templates as controlled within
• the Quality Management System (COS).
• Engage with the performance review process and take actions to address areas for improvement.
• drive overall departmental / business objectives year-on-year.
• Support the Structural Manager in department tasks when absent/ unavailable.
• Degree qualified in a Civil or Structural engineering. (minimum BEng)
• Chartered Engineer status (preferably ICE or IStructE)
• Knowledge of bulk material handling, conveyor systems, and associated structures (e.g.
• towers, trestles, gantries, silos, retaining structures).
• Good structural analytical software knowledge (STAAD Pro preferred).
• Good ability to interpret site investigation reports and identify implications.
• Excellent understanding of load cases and combinations, and ability to deduce that structures are
• behaving as intended through calculation and/or analysis.
• Good understanding of the design process, and its associated documentation.
• Excellent knowledge of structural codes, standards and regulations.
• Excellent understanding of structural design principles.
• Basic knowledge of detailing steelwork and drafting standards.
• Basic 2D CAD software knowledge (Autodesk AutoCAD preferred).
• Good understanding of Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA).
• Good knowledge of manufacturing processes associated with heavy fabrication.
• Good understanding of checking calculations, reports, analytical models, and drawings.
• Proficient at using Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to clearly communicate design ideas, both internally and externally.
• Ability to cope with the pressure of deadlines.
• Ability to work across multiple projects / tasks. .
• A high attention to detail and committed to quality performance / output
25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Contribution towards eye test and glasses
Online company discount benefits site including cinema tickets and gym membership discount
Long Service Awards
Employee recognition scheme – ELITE Awards
Employee Assistance Programme
Flexible Benefits Package
Onsite parking
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
Please note this role may close early or be extended depending on the volume of applications.
px Group is a fully integrated infrastructure solutions business which delivers net zero and stakeholder success through elite performance in the safety, availability, reliability and efficiency of energy infrastructure, industrial processes and related commercial activities - unlocking value for our customers as a trusted partner. Part of the Ara Partners portfolio of companies, Ara Partners is a private equity firm specialising in industrial decarbonisation investments.
Operating on a 24/7 basis, providing services at this level requires professionalism and competence coupled with a safety and environmentally conscious mind set to deliver operational excellence.
This capability has been shaped by a 25 year history in managing, operating and maintaining some of Europe’s most significant industrial infrastructure including two of the UK’s largest and most strategic gas processing facilities.
px Group also owns Saltend Chemicals Park at the heart of the UK’s Energy Estuary in the Humber, home to several world-leading manufacturing businesses such as Mitsubishi Chemicals, INEOS, and Vivergo Fuels and the location for Equinor’s hydrogen production plant with carbon capture, the anchor project for Zero Carbon Humber. This introduction of hydrogen at our Saltend Park, and our continuous search with all current and new industrial users for further synergies in energy and resource use will help to transform the park into a future proof Green Energy Park.
We are committed to the Energy Transition, and reducing emissions across all our operations, including the sites we manage and operate on behalf of our clients. We are growing internationally and are involved in some of the newest flagship waste-to-fuels projects including ReNew’s plastic recycling plant in Teesside and GIDARA Energy’s advanced biofuels facility in Amsterdam which will convert non-recyclable waste into bio-methanol.
