Civil & Structural Engineer
Role Overview
Intermediate Civil & Structural Engineer providing design services primarily for small to medium-sized brownfield oil and gas projects.
Own moderately complex assignments, coordinate technical deliverables across disciplines, and support project phases while meeting quality, schedule, and budget requirements.
Collaborate with colleagues and clients in Canada, including meetings across time zones when required.
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About HOCS Projects
HOCS Projects is a Canadian engineering, procurement, and project management firm supporting the energy industry.
The firm provides design solutions for constructability and operability across fabrication, construction, and operations.
The position is based in Vadodara, Gujarat, supporting Canadian and international clients.
Role overview
Intermediate Civil & Structural Engineer providing design services primarily for small to medium-sized brownfield oil and gas projects.
Own moderately complex assignments, coordinate technical deliverables across disciplines, and support project phases while meeting quality, schedule, and budget requirements.
Collaborate with colleagues and clients in Canada, including meetings across time zones when required.
Engineering and design responsibilities
- Design steel structures, reinforced concrete, equipment foundations, pipe supports, shallow and deep foundations, piling, and minor site-development works.
- Establish design criteria, loading conditions, and load combinations for dead, live, equipment, piping, wind, snow, and seismic effects under applicable project codes.
- Interpret geotechnical recommendations and coordinate foundation-design interfaces with geotechnical specialists.
- Prepare and review calculations, drawings, specifications, Design Basis Memoranda, FEED reports, Construction Work Packages, and other technical deliverables.
- Consider constructability, installation sequence, site access, existing-facility constraints, and safe execution in design and reviews.
Coordination and project delivery
- Coordinate a small civil and structural team with senior guidance and support junior engineers and designers.
- Coordinate with project teams, clients, vendors, contractors, and other disciplines; take part in drawing and model reviews.
- Meet schedules, budgets, and man-hour targets; monitor progress and communicate constraints and resource needs.
- Prepare material take-offs, engineering estimates, and order-of-magnitude construction cost estimates.
- Communicate scope or design changes, risks, assumptions, and impacts to deliverables, schedule, budget, and resources.
- Support procurement, bid evaluations, vendor-document reviews, RFIs, field queries, non-conformance issues, and controlled design changes.
- Support site and construction activities remotely and attend site visits when required, subject to travel and safety requirements.
Education and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil or Structural Engineering from a recognized university or institution.
- Five to eight years of progressive civil and structural engineering experience.
- Relevant experience in oil and gas, petrochemical, chemical processing, energy, or a comparable industrial sector.
- Industrial project experience for Canadian, North American, or international clients is preferred.
Technical qualifications
- Sound knowledge of structural steel, reinforced concrete, foundations, piling, and civil or site design, including application of geotechnical recommendations.
- Working knowledge of Canadian design standards and codes is preferred; experience with relevant Indian or international standards is an asset.
- Experience preparing and reviewing engineering calculations, drawings, specifications, reports, and Construction Work Packages.
- Multidisciplinary EPC or EPCM project, brownfield facility, and construction-phase engineering support experience is strongly preferred.
- Proficiency with STAAD.Pro, RISA-3D, S-FRAME, SAP2000, or comparable structural-analysis software.
- Ability to review 2D drawings, navigate 3D plant or structural models, and prepare engineering and construction-support documentation.
Communication and coordination
- Strong written and verbal English communication, organization, technical judgment, analytical ability, and problem-solving skills.
- Collaborate with geographically distributed teams and attend occasional early-morning or evening meetings with Canadian stakeholders.
Work authorization and travel
- Legal authorization to work in India is required.
- Willingness to travel within India or internationally when required.
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