Civil and Structural Engineer

Job Description

To ensure efficient, competent civil or structural designs.

To produce accurate design documents that will ensure successful project execution.

Project Life Cycle

• Develop a discipline strategy and design criteria to suit the unique project/client requirements.
• Adhere to the project program.
• Ensure planning of activities are regularly monitored and updated to achieve project deliverables timeously. This includes the expediting of technical information through continual engineering input to external and internal stakeholders.
• Attend relevant project meetings and produce regular project status reports.
• Generate post-project feedback.

Design

• Produce cost-effective and safe civil/structural designs.
• Produce tender and project civil/structural designs. Compare and assess project vs tender scope.
• Review alternatives and cost effectiveness.
• Produce quantity and man-hour budgets associated with scope.
• Work closely within scope, quantity budget, and man-hour budget.
• Understand project scope, quantity allowances, and man-hour budget.
• Monitor changes to scope and effects to quantity and man-hour budget and ensure authorization to changes and compliance with quantity allowances.
• Verify civil/structural engineering software packages.
• Be fully conversant with restrictions and qualifications of software.
• Order of magnitude check of analysis results.

Administration

• Maintain an effective record-keeping system for calculations, correspondence, and technical information.
• Indexing, records, design criteria, and calculations.
• Referencing to location of software input, numbers, dates, and signatures.

Client Relations (Internal & External)

• Interact efficiently with Drawing Office and other departments.
• Guide and liaise with Drawing Office and provide engineering, safety, and ergonomic input during conceptual layout phase and ongoing assistance during engineering stage.
• Ongoing review of internal circulation drawings and timeous approval of final drawings for construction.
• Provide continual engineering input to suppliers and sub-contractors.
• Understand and respond to needs of other disciplines.
• Adopt a customer-oriented approach.
• Coordinate delivery of information.

Legislation Policies & Procedures

Adhere to Company specifications, guidelines, and statutory codes of practice.

Safety: Apply global SHE standards and ensure compliance.

Quality: Regularly review and contribute towards improvement of procedures and systems. Ensure all QA procedures and guidelines are followed in daily activities. Participate in quality assurance audits. Monitor vendor quality. Monitor site quality.

Systems and Procedures: Ensure adherence to the internal Project Management Operating System. Apply and review associated discipline Engineering Standards. Approve all drawings issued for construction by signing, dating, and including the engineer/technologist’s professional registration number.

Continuous Improvement

Provide suggestions for improving internal work methods and procedures and technological solutions on an ad-hoc basis, according to customer’s needs.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Professionally, the successful candidate will be a B.Sc. or B. Tech graduate and will be registered as a professional engineer or be in a position to register within 12 – 24 months of joining SGS Bateman.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• A proven track record of 2-5 years plus experience in engineering design and project management within a processing or petrochemical plant projects environment.
• Project Management - Knowledge of basic project management methods and knowledge of all project life cycle phases.
• Civil & Structural Design Criteria - Applications and improvements of technical knowledge into design criteria that suit project requirements and/or support the design of new components/equipment.
• Commercial Principles - Understanding of contract types and their main features (basics, purchasing and selling conditions, partnerships, claims, logistic aspects, etc.) including international contracts.
• Technical Documentation - Ability to create, understand, and communicate technical specifications.
• Plant Layout development - Ability to layout the plant in a functional, safety, cost-effective way.
• Materials Fundamentals - Knowledge and understanding of basic information regarding materials and their properties used in engineering and manufacturing activities.
• Construction & Commissioning - Understanding of on-site construction work such as commissioning or customers and suppliers’ interactions.
• Civil/Structure Investigation - Ability to evaluate failures, preventative maintenance, and assessment of existing structures.
• Dynamics Structure - Knowledge of design technique of dynamic structure (including vibration).
• Cost Estimation - Understand cost of design (including cost of deliverables generation) and ability to estimate costs related to a project or specific activity.
• Basic IT Tools - Office Automation and Graphic Software.
• Procurement - Understanding of project cost control, budgeting, procurement, purchase-to-pay, and supply chain management.
• Engineering Calculations - Knowledge of engineering calculation techniques.
• Quality Engineering - Knowledge of quality methods, management systems, and procedures and/or understanding of quality features of products and parts.
• Quantity Estimation - Ability to estimate quantity for structures design (volumes, dimensions, masses, weights, etc.) to better fit the technical specifications.
• CAE Software - Familiarity and ability to use specific CAE software including setting up systems, procedures, and guidelines PROKON and Strand7.
• Legislation and Standards - Knowledge of sector-specific law (engineering safety requirements, audit regulations, insurance laws, etc.) and knowledge of standard specifications (plant layout requirements, etc.) including the ability to integrate these standards.
• Innovation & Adaptability - The ability to adapt to different environments (team, technologies, countries, etc.) from a technical point of view, including the ability to find out new possible technological solutions according to customer’s needs.