# Engineering Lead (Structures)

Our client, a well-established design-build company in high-end lightweight structures seeks to employ a Structural Engineer with proven management and project management ability. THIS IS NOT A DESIGN ROLE, BUT A MANAGERIAL POSITION ENSURING QUALITY PRODUCTS ARE DELIVERED IN TIME. Cape Town based. For the position you would be required to have: · B. Eng/ B. Sc in Civil/Structural Engineering · Pr. Eng would be preferable · Around 10 years’ experience in structural engineering (strong steel design) · Minimum of 5 years’ experience leading engineering teams · Proven ability to deliver projects on time · Proven ability to set up or improve engineering standards, workflows, Quality Control (QC) and manage resources accordingly · SolidWorks and RFEM experience advantageous and willingness to learn more applicable software systems Responsibilities would include you to: • Lead and manage the engineering team • Own engineering delivery on programme, including resource and task planning in SmartSuite • Prepare and own Basis of Design reports, structural design reports and reaction loads for structures by others • Lead and review steel, connection and substructure design • Coordinate tensile

- **Id**: 3757274
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/the-key-recruitment-engineering-lead-structures>
- **Role**: Management
- **Role family**: Management
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cape Town, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T15:30:18Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-04T15:30:18Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1734
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4505268
- **Name**: The Key Recruitment
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/the-key-recruitment>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **SolidWorks** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T17:08:30Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: seen:3, agency, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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