Lead Structural Engineer

Responsibilities

• The Lead Structural Engineer will lead his own team of structural engineers and monitor the progress and planning. You will advise on technical matters in other projects and act in a consultancy role towards our clients.
• You will perform the necessary design analyses together with the team and studies with accompanying reports independently.
• You will also be coaching other engineers and on behalf of KCI you will be monitoring and discussing the progress with project manager and with the client on occasion.
• To give you a better understanding of the job we described your day to day activities below.
• As a Lead Structural Engineer you will be engineering projects for the Offshore Wind Market such as:
• The complete structural design of substructures (jackets, monopiles et cetera) for Offshore SubStations (OSS) including the transportation and installation thereof;
• The complete structural design of topsides for Offshore SubStations (OSS) including the transportation and installation thereof;
• The design of transport and installation provisions such as lifting points, spreader frames, guides, bumpers, grillages, seafastening et cetera;
• The design of secondary steel components such as working platforms, boatlandings, J-tubes, cable hang-off clamps, anode cages et cetera.
• For the Offshore Oil & Gas market you will engineer;
• The complete design of substructures (jackets, tripods, monopiles et cetera) including transportation and installation thereof;
• The complete design of topsides including transportation and installation thereof;
• The design of installation provisions such as lifting points, spreader frames, guides, bumpers, grillages, seafastening et cetera;
• The design of platform components such as Living Quarters, (Blast)walls, bridges, ventstacks, flarebooms, crane pedestals, helidecks, boatlandings, riserclamps, bumpers et cetera;
• The design of platform modifications such as deck extensions & modifications for new or replacement of equipment;
• The design of subsea structures such as wellhead protection frames, side tap protection structures and PLEMS & PLETS;
• The decommissioning engineering for topside and substructures;
• Platform Life Time extension studies.
• In order to deliver the designs you will make global strength analyses consisting of:
• Load out, Upending, Lifting, Transport, Transport fatigue, Installation/stabbing, On-bottom/Unpiled, In-place, In-place fatigue, Vessel impact/collision, Seismic, Redundancy/Pushover, Lifetime extensions, Foundation piles, Pile drivability and more.
• And you will also make detailed strength calculations for: Welded connections, Grillage and Seafastening, Vessel/barge deck strength , Nodes & joints (eg diamond plates), Detailed buckling checks of shell structures, Lifting points (eg padeyes & trunnions), Rigging selection, Weight and Centre of Gravity (CoG)/ Centre of Buoyancy (CoB) calculations, Weight Control Reports, Bolted connections and more.

Requirements

• A Master’s Degree in Mechanical/structural Engineering (Offshore);
• 12+ years of experience as structural engineer in the design of fixed offshore structures;
• 5+ years of experience as lead engineer;
• Extensive experience with the design of platform substructures and topsides;
• Advanced user of SACS and/or Sesam software; Software experience with ANSYS, FEMAP and StaadPro is a plus;
• Extensive knowledge of International rules and standards applicable to offshore designs for offshore wind industry and oil & gas as well;
• Experience with geotechnical foundation design for driven/drilled piles and suction anchor foundations (incl. drivability);
• Good knowledge of English and preferably also Dutch (both written and verbal);
• Pro-active and problem solving attitude, analytic, flexible, team player.