Structural Engineer

Job overview

Key tasks and responsibilities

• Perform FEED, studies, and detailed design engineering, analysis, and calculations on complex and demanding tasks.
• Complete varied assignments and prepare clear, accurate design calculations, analyses, reports, and procedures.
• Organize work to meet deadlines and budgets; communicate engineering information clearly.
• Learn project scope, specifications, schedule, and interdisciplinary requirements, identifying concerns as early as practicable.
• Initiate interfaces with other disciplines to obtain design inputs.
• Analyze structures designed by others using computer methods, with guidance from Senior/PPL engineers.
• Assist in preparing specifications; perform engineering checks of drafting and work prepared by others.
• Verify designs through single-discipline checks and assist with interdisciplinary checks.
• Prepare and review structural material take-offs under supervision.
• Provide engineering support; assist with subcontract documents and bid evaluations; review vendor data.
• Liaise with design and engineering disciplines, construction and fabrication groups, and document control; supervise trainee engineers.

Qualifications and education

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering.
• Three to eight years of oil and gas experience with a major contractor or consultant, predominantly in detailed design, or equivalent experience in a similar project environment is desirable.
• Engineer in Training registration or membership in a professional engineering society is desirable.
• Working knowledge of spoken and written English; eagerness to learn.
• HSE, TQM, and cost-conscious approach to work.
• Flexibility to support reassignment, handovers, colleagues with heavy workloads, and learning current work methods and software applications as applicable.
• Accredited engineering degree where required by the region; familiarity with applicable standards, codes, guidelines, and basic design and analysis methods.

Reporting and interfaces

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