Department Manager- Offshore Structural Engineering

Overview

Primary Objective

Technical Competency

• Provide overall supervision of structural engineers, designers, and project-designated structural designers/draftsmen. Own and maintain technical competency of structural personnel (training, upskilling/reskilling, mentoring, technical reviews/peer reviews/checking).
• Forecast structural engineering resource requirements and allocate resources across projects; manage mobilization/demobilization to maintain sufficient resourcing and cost effectiveness.
• Ensure structural design integrity of work scope and maintenance of discipline standards, processes, templates, and guidelines. Identify, evaluate, and govern structural software/tools required for effective delivery; drive digital adoption to reduce manual effort.
• Develop and strengthen interdisciplinary and structural group communication and collaboration.
• Ensure compliance with quality, safety, environmental, and security requirements, including safety in design and management of change.
• Manage structural engineering design within budget and schedule; support corrective actions with project teams when issues arise.
• Evaluate new technology and industry advancements against existing standards and revise where applicable; benchmark design/drafting to identify improvement opportunities including total installed costs, etc.
• Promote cost reduction, productivity, and value-creation initiatives; prepare progress and expenditure reporting as required.
• Promote career development and performance management within the group (KPIs, competency/skill gap assessment, hiring and resource management).

Project Execution

• Contribute to project execution strategy and planning (as required); prepare discipline work-hour estimates and support schedules/budgets.
• Drive innovative solutions, technology advances, and methods to deal with out-of-sequence work and delivery constraints.
• Work with project management teams to take corrective action on issues impacting staffing, scope, progress, schedule, completion, and/or profitability.
• Review and authorize work performed by direct reports and delegated reviewers, ensuring workloads are at manageable levels.

Business Operations

• Participate in budgeting and manage discipline operations to budget; plan, approve, and control discipline expenditures in line with company policy.
• Manage discipline staffing levels and organizational structure; monitor project discipline structures and ensure coverage when resources change.
• Create and maintain discipline guidelines, processes, templates, and standard deliverables; ensure mentoring/training requirements are met.
• Manage the employee performance review process; contribute to dispute resolution as needed. Ensure discipline work and team activities meet all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.

Business Development Support

• Support business development by maintaining CVs/resumes and capability profiles; track existing capabilities and plan for future customer requirements.
• Build and maintain constructive relationships with customers, suppliers, and contractors; support networking, negotiations, strategic alliancing, and cost-savings efforts where applicable.
• Maintain benchmarking for discipline effort; contribute to proposals by developing discipline execution strategy, estimating/reviewing costs, drafting proposal content, and presenting to customers; may lead part or all of a proposal.

Qualifications, Accreditation, Training

• Full-time Bachelor’s Degree in Civil or Structural Engineering from an accredited university.
• Trained in leadership and project execution.
• Licensed / Chartered with a recognised engineering governing body. Willing to achieve engineering accreditation with a local institution is mandatory; candidates without this accreditation must be willing to achieve it within the probationary period.

Job Specific Knowledge / Experience

• Strong background in discipline work and a competent understanding of regulations, codes, manufacturing standards, and industry standard practices.
• Sound grasp of offshore structural analyses for pre-service (loadout, lift, transportation, launch/flotation, on-bottom stability) and in-service (in-place, seismic, fatigue, pushover) conditions.
• Comprehensive understanding of structural analysis topics including dynamic loading/resistance, collapse analysis, spectral fatigue analysis, fire and explosion design, reliability-based analysis, and dropped object (as applicable).
• Knowledge of structural detailing and ability to develop construction-friendly and economic connection/support details.
• Extensive senior-level Energy experience; experience leading and managing large structural engineering/design teams.

Systems & Tools

• Competent in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to organize information from many sources and retain it as per prescribed format and policies.
• Functional awareness of discipline tools.
• Conversant in interrelationship of tools within the discipline, analytics and modeling, and cross-discipline data-centric methods.

Additional Role-Specific Expectations

• Minimum 15 years design experience in Oil & Gas, including leadership of structural discipline engineers and designers; may require \~20 years overall experience with substantial conceptual/FEED/detailed design exposure.
• Adept at budgeting and cost control.

HSE Capability

• Assume hands-on management and implementation of all relevant company HSE requirements. Drive safe and sustainable engineering outcomes throughout the asset lifecycle via the application of SEAL.
• Role-model a commitment to personal well-being and a proactive approach to continuously improving health, safety, and environmental performance.

People Skills

• Interpersonal: Builds appropriate, constructive, and effective business relationships throughout the organization. Uses diplomacy and tact, is approachable, and communicates clearly, accurately, and consistently in both verbal and written matters. Employs the principles of active listening and encourages feedback from others.
• Teamwork: Enjoys working in a small, high-caliber team with high visibility to senior stakeholders. Able to work and liaise with multiple teams and stakeholders, prioritize workloads, and support other team members in achieving team goals.
• Action Orientation: Achieves results set by self and others, meets timelines, and pushes to achieve stretch goals. Demonstrates enthusiasm, persistence, and tenacity. Breaks down work into executable tasks, takes accountability for outputs, and ensures work is done right the first time.
• Intellectual Capacity: Comfortably deals with new concepts and complexity. Examines problems carefully and thoroughly, understanding their interdependencies. Able to gather information from multiple sources and recognize the importance of various factors.
• Decision Making: Makes discipline management decisions under the general direction of the Location Director of Engineering. Manages discipline resource mobilization and demobilization to ensure sufficient resourcing. Accountable for team performance, discipline risks, and driving continuous improvement. Responsible for discipline planning, budgeting, and approval of expenditures, and implements approved programs in accordance with budget and company policy.
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