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Structural Designer

Location: Hereford HQ 

Salary: Competitive, DOE+ Excellent Benefits

Contract: Full time, Permanent 

Hours: 40hrs

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Deadline | Friday 9th October 2026

About the role

As a Structural Designer, you'll play a key role in delivering bespoke projects from intiial architectural information through to: 

  • Structural design
  • Detailed technical drawings
  • Project coordination
  • Machine-ready production information 
  • Site delivery support 

Working closely with structural engineers, manufacturing teams and construction professionals, you'll develop practical, buildable solutions across our timber, steel and oak frame systems.

No repetitive developments. No standard house types. No copy-and-paste projects.

Just genuinely interesting, one-off buildings that challenge and develop your skills every day.

Who we're looking for

You may already be an experienced designer, or you may have developed your expertise through hands-on work in:

  • Timber frame construction
  • Oak frame construction
  • Steel fabrication
  • CNC manufacturing
  • Design offices
  • Workshops
  • Site construction

Ideally, you'll bring:

  • Significant industry experience
  • A strong understanding of how structures are designed, manufactured and assembled
  • Excellent technical and problem-solving skills
  • A practical mindset with an eye for detail
  • A passion for creating high-quality, buildable solutions

 

A degree is not essential. What matters most to us is your experience, technical ability and enthusiasm to learn.

If you're coming from a practical background and looking to move further into design, we'd love to hear from you.

We don't just hire talent, we develop it too: 

You'll receive:

  • Full training on our design software
  • Access to the STA Designer Training Scheme
  • Ongoing professional development
  • Mentoring from experienced design and engineering professionals
  • This is an opportunity to grow your career within a respected and innovative company that genuinely values its people.
  • Some of the best people in our industry took an unconventional path into design. If you've got strong technical knowledge, practical construction experience and the drive to develop, we'd love to have a conversation.
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Interested in the role?

We create spaces that balance heritage and innovation, always aiming to raise the standard in design and sustainability. If you have the right attitude, approach, and skills to join our team, we’d love to hear from you. Please send your CV along with a Cover Letter telling us why you’d be a great fit.

Contact us

Want to discuss plans for your own oak frame project, organise a visit to our workshops, book a stay in our show home or just gain some advice? Please get in touch.
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