Principal Structural Engineer

Job Description - Principal Structural Engineer (ABU01VW) :

Building on our past. Ready for the future

Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts. We partner with customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their assets. We’re bridging two worlds, moving towards more sustainable energy sources, while helping to provide the energy, chemicals and resources needed now.

Primary Objectives / Responsibilities

Business Development Support

• Builds positive working relationships with external parties such as the customer, suppliers, and contractors.
• Supports proposals by developing the discipline execution strategy, estimating costs, writing proposal content, and presenting to customers.
• Will be called upon to lead all or part of the technical proposal.

Business Operations

• Planning of man hour budgets, schedules, manpower loadings and staffing requirements, by skill and experience, to satisfy project requirements and direction given by the Discipline Manager.
• Ensures the project work is covered for vacation and unplanned absences.
• Mentors / trains and supports the delivery of training.
• Assists in the employee performance review process.
• Facilitates coverage of activities when people leave the team.
• Encourages knowledge of and compliance with requirements and processes.
• Works to resolve inter-discipline, vendor, and customer issues.
• Ensures discipline technical work and team activities meet all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.

Technical Competency

• Ensures team member adherence to accepted engineering and design practices, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications.
• Supports the standardization of equipment specifications, drawings, and document templates.
• Contributes to the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful.
• Uses local / global standards to support technical excellence.
• Identifies software necessary to enable Structural group to function effectively.
• Provides specialist technical support, supervision and advice to the discipline and project teams; participates in peer reviews.
• Ensures the completion of structural analysis and design for offshore oil and gas facilities.
• Ensures recognized offshore engineering practices applicable to Structural design engineering are adopted within the discipline.
• Reviews designs, sketches and reports with supporting calculations for projects, and supplies drafting staff with information to assist in the production of detailed drawings, the development of quantities, materials lists and cost estimates as required.

Project Execution

• Participates in project execution strategy and planning.
• Knows the project and discipline scope / cost / time requirements, ensures the team meets the expectations, and liaises with other disciplines to ensure project success.
• Encourages innovative solutions, technology advances, and methods to effectively deal with working out of sequence.
• Supports management of project change and progressing for the discipline and works with the Project Management Team to take corrective actions regarding any issues, staffing requirements, scope changes, progressing, or other events that could affect project completion and / or profitability.
• Plans discipline quality, monitors quality activities, drives squad checking, recommends improvements, and takes action where required.
• Collaborates with project team in review of project documentation such as proposals, estimates, budgets and schedules.
• Leads weekly Structural meetings, reviews progress reports and required checking procedures.
• Initiates, manages and supervises engineering assignments on projects that meet project requirements on time and within budget.
• Organizes and manages all aspects of the workload of a team of Structural discipline engineers and designers, within the parameters of a project schedule.
• Understands and applies the Project Execution Plan (PEP) requirements - make-up and application (including the Engineering Plan).
• Reviews data from multiple sources and prepares engineering studies, analyses, calculations, and recommends actions.
• Crafts recommendations and reviews final documentation prior to customer approval.
• Determines technical issues, defines alternate solutions, establishes pros / cons for multiple solutions, and makes recommendations through official project documents such as technical queries, technical deviations, etc.
• Establishes a list of discipline deliverables. Controls, monitors and progresses these deliverables to an agreed schedule.
• Reviews final documentation incorporating all relevant information and pursues customer approval.
• Reviews similar documentation to assist others and reviews / authorizes work done by direct reports.
• Leads the production of detailed designs and drawings, specifications, data, calculations and reports.
• Focuses team on achievement of milestones and other key project objectives.

Procurement Support

• Participates in bid clarifications, conducts bid evaluations, completes inter-discipline vendor information review and approval, and finalizes other certification activities.
• Provides advice during procurement, construction and commissioning activities.
• Liaises with suppliers, clients, consultants or commissioning engineers concerning the design, installation or construction and commissioning of assigned work.
• Competently reviews and comments vendor data.
• Reviews Technical Bid Analysis and associated reports.

Site Support

• Leads on-site support for construction, commissioning, or turn over.
• Must be able to perform site visits & inspections, data gathering activities and technical evaluations that are relevant to assigned tasks and works.

Worley, Vision, Purpose & Values

• Understands and communicates Worley’s vision and strategy and translates the strategy into practical goals and objectives for people in his / her team.

Quality Assurance

• Responsible for working within the provisions and guidelines of the Quality Assurance systems.
• Works with project managers / project engineers to ensure all projects are set up and executed in full compliance with all the requirements of the Worley Project Management Process (WPMP) and General Management System (EMS) using consistent approaches, Work Breakdown Structures, work methodologies and reporting systems.
• Monitors the closure of all identified risks and opportunities.

Safety

• Responsible for personal safety safe working practices. Understands and follows OH&S procedures.
• Promotes health, safety and environmental awareness.

Job Specific Knowledge :

• Demonstrates a visible and active commitment to HSE management and its associated requirements in a project environment.
• A thorough knowledge of the regulations, codes and standards (American, British and other International Codes, Standards and Specifications) and a good understanding of offshore engineering practices applicable to Structural design for oil and gas facilities.
• Experience in Brown field works & asset services type project / contracts.
• Experience in Green field works & asset services type project / contracts.
• Excellent technical and practical engineering skills and able to consistently deliver quality, accurate and timely work to Worley and its clients.
• Expertise in Engineering and Designing of structures associated with Oil & Gas Facilities.
• An excellent knowledge of applicable local and international standards and statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Competent in the use of relevant Structural discipline specific software.

Education – Qualifications, Accreditation, Training :

• Full-Time Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from an accredited university.
• Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status or undertaking the same will be an advantage.

HSE Capability :

• Maintain HSE focus with the team to ensure OHSE requirements.
• Demonstrate behaviour and business practices commensurate with a culture of world’s best health, safety and environmental performance.
• Identify and report work hazards and incidents.

IT Skills :

• SACS, USFOS, MathCad and MS Office Software.

People Skills :

• Able to work in diverse teams.
• Able to make difficult decisions and lead and manage others in changing business conditions.
• Highly effective people management skills such as leadership, team, interpersonal, coaching, mentoring and supervisory skills. Must be able to build, motivate, develop and manage an effective team.
• Highly effective management skills including the ability to plan, set goals; and manage time, priorities, resources, accountabilities, schedules and cost.

Other :

• Good English communication skills (spoken & written).
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, including the ability to convey information and ideas to individuals and groups, and make presentations when required.
• Demonstrates initiative and a willingness to learn and continuously improve on performance.
• Able to work on multiple projects of various size and complexity.
• Able to work effectively in small to large multi-disciplinary teams and share and transfer knowledge within teams.

Moving forward together

We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels they belong, can bring themselves, and are heard. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by law.

We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation.

And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology.

Whatever your ambition, there’s a path for you here. And there’s no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.