Application Deadline: 19 March 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 Structural Manager for our Adlington office.
The Structural Manager is to lead the Structural discipline by setting clear technical direction, ensuring strong governance, and overseeing all structural deliverables so they meet required standards of safety, code compliance, quality, and cost efficiency. The role owns the development and continual improvement of structural design processes, drives accuracy and consistency across the team. The Structural Manager ensures effective integration with other engineering functions.
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.
• Provide technical leadership, support, and mentoring to Engineers and Designers.
• Ensure department outputs (calculations, reports, analytical models, 3D models, drawings, etc.) meet project specifications, relevant standards, codes, and regulatory requirements.
• Promote value engineering, standardisation, risk reduction, and a right-first-time approach.
• Support Project and Bid teams with information and guidance (steel weights, configurations, engineering time, and concept designs)
• Identify variations to contractual scope and escalate to the Project team.
• Attend project model / design reviews.
• Support CAT 2 / CAT 3 checking requirements with supplementary information as required.
• Undertake site surveys and prepare reports on findings to support successful delivery of projects.
• Responsible for the rectification and implementation of long-term preventative measures resulting from any NCR raised against the department.
• Participate & contribute to any lessons learned and continuous improvement meetings.
• Lead the development of processes to improve efficiency and project delivery.
• Identify suitable sub-contractor supply chain assessing competence to perform scopes.
• Responsible for verifying sub-contractor output is correct in accordance with scope provided by Project Engineering.
• Responsible for the definition, adherence, and continual review of all ISO 9001 procedures and templates relating to discipline, supporting internal and external audits as required.
• Engage with the performance review process and take actions to address areas for improvement.
• Ensure personal objectives are completed in a timely manner and drive overall departmental/ business objectives year-on-year.
• Maintain alignment with company values and vision.
• Any other ad hoc duties as may be required, and as commensurate with the grade of post.
• Degree qualified in a Civil or Structural engineering. (minimum BEng)
• Chartered Engineer status (preferably ICE or IStructE)
• Experience within Structural Engineering field along with experience at senior / principal level.
• Excellent knowledge of bulk material handling, conveyor systems, and associated structures (e.g. towers, trestles, gantries, silos, retaining structures).
• Structural analytical software knowledge (STAAD Pro preferred).
• Able to interpret site investigation reports and identify implications.
• Understanding of load cases and combinations, and ability to deduce that structures are behaving as intended through calculation and/or analysis.
• Understanding of the design process, and its associated documentation.
• Knowledge of structural codes, standards and regulations.
• Understanding of structural design principles.
• Knowledge of detailing steelwork and drafting standards.
• 2D CAD software knowledge (Autodesk AutoCAD preferred).
• Knowledge of workload and project planning. (Microsoft Project preferred)
• Understanding of Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA).
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes associated with heavy fabrication.
• 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.
• Strong attention to detail commitment to quality performance/ output.
• Ability to work across multiple teams and projects / tasks.
• Ability to mentor and guide junior colleagues.
• A high attention to detail and committed to quality performance / output.
• Completed the required company induction into this role
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.
