Principal Structural Engineer

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
• Provide specialist technical support, supervision and advice to the discipline and project teams; participate in peer reviews;
• Ensures the Completion of structural analysis  and  design  for  Offshore  oil  and  gas  facilities
• Ensures recognised offshore engineering practices applicable to Structural design engineering are adopted within the discipline.
• Review designs, sketches and reports with supporting calculations for projects, and supply 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

• Participate in project execution strategy and planning.
• Knows the project and discipline scope/cost/time requirements, ensures the team to 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.
• Initiate, manage and supervise engineering assignments on projects that meet project requirements on time and within budget.
• Organise and manage 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).

Project Deliverables

• Reviews data from multiple sources and prepares engineering studies, analyses, calculations, and recommend 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.
• Establish 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.
• Review similar documentation to assist others and reviews/authorizes work done by direct reports
• Lead 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.
• Provide advice during procurement, construction and commissioning activities.
• Liaise 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’ 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.
• Work 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. Understand and follow OH&S procedures
• Promoting health, safety and environmental awareness.

Job Specific Knowledge:

• Demonstrate 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.

Essential Competencies:

·       Deciding and Initiating Action:

Initiates and introduces changes into work processes;

Makes quick, clear decisions that may include tough choices or considered risks;

Recognizes the need for improved systems/processes and proactively recommends, develops and implements them.

Proactively resolve any discrepancies between Worley and its client’s requirements.

·       Leading and Supervising:

Provides team members with a clear direction;

Sets appropriate standards of behaviour;

Motivates and empowers others;

Provides staff with development opportunities and coaching;

Able to make difficult decisions and lead and manage others in changing business conditions;

Provide on the job training to others in the discipline team;

Is able to assign team members to projects systematically to meet demands, taking into account the varying experience, competence, capability and workload levels of individuals within the group;

Helps team members feel valued, appreciated and included in discussions and meetings.

·       Persuading & Influencing:

Gains clear agreement and commitment from others by persuading,

Convincing and negotiating;

Promotes ideas on behalf of oneself or others;

Makes a strong personal impact on others;

Takes care to manage one’s impression on others.

·       Applying Expertise & Technology:

Applies specialist and detailed technical expertise;

Uses technology to achieve work objectives;

Demonstrates an understanding of different organisational departments and functions;

Develops job knowledge and expertise through continual professional development;

Keep up-to-date with the latest developments and technical innovations in the discipline;

Specialized expertise in regulations, codes, manufacturing standards, and industry standard practices;

Implements innovative solutions, and methods in self and team’s work.

·       Analysing:

Is able to analyse engineering/design problems methodically and arrive at satisfactory solutions;

Probes for further information or greater understanding of a problem;

Makes rational judgements from the available information and analysis;

Demonstrates an understanding of how one issue may be a part of a much larger system.

Proficient in specialty engineering, analytics and modelling, and cross-discipline data centric methods.

·       Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations:

Focuses on customer needs and satisfaction;

Sets high standards for quality and quantity; monitors and maintains quality and productivity;

Excellent customer focus and able to consistently meet Worley and its clients needs

Ensures design team aware of and complying with client’s Basis of Design and applicable regulations and codes.

Pro-active, goal oriented with excellent attention to detail.

Establish and maintain good working relationships within Worley, with its clients and other stakeholders.

Desirable Competencies:

·       Adhering to Principles and Values:

Upholds ethics and Worley values;

Demonstrates integrity as a person who is trusted by others and consistently honours their commitments;

Promotes and defends equal opportunities;

Builds diverse teams;

Encourages organisational and individual responsibility towards the community and the environment.

·       Presenting & Communicating Information:

Speaks fluently;

Expresses opinions, information and key points of an argument clearly;

Makes presentations and undertakes public speaking with skill and confidence;

Responds quickly to the needs of an audience and to their reactions and feedback; projects credibility;

Regularly monitors the communication network between project staff, the client and third parties and introduces changes where required.

·       Creating and Innovating:

Produces new ideas, approaches, or insights;

Creates innovative products or designs;

Produces a range of solutions to problems.

·       Adapting and Responding to Change:

Approaches change positively and drives change to improve systems;

Accepts new ideas and change initiatives;

Adapts interpersonal style to suit different people or situations.

Effectively manages change to work tasks and the work environment and assists others with adapting to change.

·       Coping with Pressures and Setbacks:

Maintains a positive outlook at work;

Works productively in a pressurised environment;

Keeps emotions under control during difficult situations;

Identify issues and problems; make timely decisions, develop appropriate and innovative solutions;

Balances the demands of a work life and a personal life.

·       Entrepreneurial and Commercial Thinking

Keeps up to date with competitor information and market trends;

Identifies business opportunities for the organisation;

Maintains awareness of developments in the organisational structure and politics;

Demonstrates financial awareness;

      Controls costs and thinks in terms of profit, loss and added value.

Extent of Guidance or Control:

• Reviews work for technical accuracy and adequacy.
• Plans, controls & reports on project work.
• Can have authority for performance evaluations.
• Can make recommendations concerning selection, training, rating and discipline of staff.

Impact of Decisions on Results:             

• Empowered to make responsible decisions within the limits of company practices.
• Difficult, complex or unusual decisions will be referred to the Discipline Manager.

General Accountabilities:

• Comply and keep up-to-date with the behaviour and business practices outlined in Worley Processes, and with all applicable laws, regulations and standards.
• Develop personnel to share Worley values, beliefs and a commitment to the Worley Vision, and who demonstrate the expected behaviour, competencies and performance associated with their role or task.
• Encourage a team-based work environment that leverages the expertise and knowledge of the team and nurtures a climate of care and trust.
• Deliver quality services and demonstrate a commitment to understand and meet customer needs.
• Demonstrate a visible and active commitment to achieving the Worley Vision and its associated requirements.
• Act in the best interests of Worley at all times.
• Perform any other duties that are reasonably required from time to time.
• Determines methods and solutions for complex engineering problems and selects the most efficient and economical manner for meeting objectives.
• Applies advanced engineering techniques and analysis.
• Is fully conversant in the profession and proficient in the utilization of current engineering theories and practices.
• Arrives punctually for work and meetings.
• Demonstrates commitment to the organisation.
• Complies with legal obligations and safety requirements of the role.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritisation of work to achieve them