Principal Structural Engineer for Renewable Energy Projects Location: Surrey and UK sites Salary: £60 - £65k depending on experience, qualifications and skills Our Client When you become part of the team, your opportunities are endless. As a leading global engineering, construction and services company, they support the energy, petrochemicals, government services and civil infrastructure sectors on six continents. Serving their customers through six diverse business segments - Government & Infrastructure, Services, Upstream, Technology, Downstream and Ventures - they offer challenging assignments on some of the world's largest and most complex projects. Their clients value them because they know They Deliver. With more than 50,000 employees around the world, they deliver top-quality service and performance in engineering, construction, operations and maintenance, logistics and project management services to clients who entrust them with their most vital projects. Join them and you'll be part of a dynamic, elite team of professionals who understand what it takes to get a job done and has the experience, knowledge and determination to succeed. Job Description The role is within a multi-task project environment with responsibility for the design of offshore structures to support wind turbines and associated structures. Projects vary from concept design through to full design, including input to the installation and commissioning phases. The role will require liaison with clients, suppliers and contractors to resolve potential problems to ensure that completion dates are achieved. The successful candidate will be responsible for a project team in the delivery of a designed solution. Person Specification The candidate will be a chartered engineer with the ICE or IStructE.Previous experience will include the design of steelwork for offshore structures and preferably also concrete offshore structures. It is also desirable that the candidate has experience in the following: ·Design of steel piled foundations, substructure and secondary steelwork. ·Assessment of wind turbine and metocean loads. ·Understanding of offshore geotechnical design. ·Development of offshore structure installation methods. ·Provision of specifications for manufacture. The ideal candidate is likely to have been employed by a consulting practice or working within the design division of an offshore civils contractor.The candidate will be proficient in the design process and procedures for offshore structures and have working knowledge of the design requirements for Lloyds and DNV. Candidates are expected to be highly computer literate and proficient with the suite of Microsoft products and specialist finite element analysis software.A working knowledge of dynamic design methods and fatigue analysis would be required. Often the engineering will be outside the bounds of usual code based design, so a questioning and lateral thinking mind is required.Preference is for candidates with client side experience or project management responsibility where he/she has had responsibility for the management of external suppliers. The candidate shall be considered as a “Role Model” in the transferable competencies of Creativity and Innovation plus Knowledge Transfer and demonstrate a proficient level in the following transferable competencies: ·Accepts Responsibility ·Leadership ·Influence and persuasion ·HSE Awareness ·Customer Focus ·Planning and Organising ·Decision Making ·Risk Management Interested? Please e-mail your CV to Rachel.Stokel-Walker@convergerecruitment.co.ukand any problems in sending your CV please call Rachel on 01962 775189. | 