Structural Lead Engineer for Offshore Topside Structures

<p>We invite you to bring your professional engineering background and passion for managing structural design processes into play, as you contribute to the development of future offshore energy projects around the world to support the transition from fossil fuels to green energy. To succeed in this role, you must have an excellent technical background combined with a strong ability to collaborate and interface with clients, fabrication contractors, yards, internal multidisciplinary design teams across Ramboll’s geographies in projects delivering topside structures for offshore facilities.</p><p> </p><p>Are you our new Lead Structural Engineer Click the apply-button to send your application.</p><p> </p><p><strong>You will join our Structures department</strong></p><p>As our new Lead Engineer, you will be part of an exceptional technical environment with more than 40 passionate colleagues positioned in a large multidiscipline environment primarily located in Denmark and India. The department is highly experienced and delivers engineering and consultancy services on a global scale within the energy sector.</p><p> </p><p>The focus areas of the department are offshore topside structures as well as onshore energy projects supporting the green transition. Our services cover a broad range of services within the Structural discipline. We cover all aspects of a project including concept and feasibility studies, front-end engineering design, detailed engineering, EPC(I) and follow-up engineering.</p><p> </p><p>We work for global customers and thrive to provide cutting-edge solutions to our customers. Trust, empowerment, and positive communication are keywords for the daily way of working. Ramboll supports hybrid workplace (office and working from home). This position can be in any of the four locations Copenhagen, Esbjerg, Aarhus or Vejle, however some visits to our main competence centre in Esbjerg will be required in case employment elsewhere.</p><p> </p><p>We are a global team and execute projects worldwide, you must expect some travel activity from time to time; the number of days will typically vary from 5-15 days per year.</p><p> </p><p>You will manage your project discipline team and work closely with other disciplines in a collaborative environment to deliver exciting offshore projects for our clients.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Your key tasks and responsibilities will be:</strong></p><ul><li>Act as a Lead Topside Structural Engineer on multidisciplinary projects for team of a topside structural engineers and designers</li><li>As a Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and delivering full detail design packages of topside structural design for our clients in either design contracts or projects where Ramboll provides engineering through EPC(I) contracts covering design, fabrication and installation phases.</li><li>Maintain control of the topside structure discipline, here under planning and organizing the work of your team, control of cost, time & resources, and technical quality.</li><li>Coordinate the execution of the projects with the project manager, other design disciplines and the client.</li><li>Assume overall coordination of the topside structural discipline team on projects and provide expert guidance in terms of detailed design of structural solutions and analysis issues according to the project and client's requirement.</li><li>Assume overall responsibility for the development of topside structural layout and structural solutions for our clients and facilitate optimized structural topside designs in terms of structural layout, design, construction, and installation.</li><li>Assume responsibility and understand the delivery of the complete structural design into our Aveva E3D design solution and its interconnection to fabrication requirements</li><li>Assist in tender management and as part of this make the quotations including time and cost estimates, write method statement, participate in clarification sessions, etc.</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Your starting point for constant growth</strong></p><p>From the moment you join Ramboll, we will support your personal and professional development so that you grow with the company. For this role, we believe your starting point is:</p><p> </p><ul><li>10+ years of experience within design of offshore steel structures, preferably from the offshore industry in Europe or other region with offshore energy production.</li><li>5+ years of experience in leading larger engineering teams/projects.</li><li>Have profound experience in collaborating and interfacing with internal and external stakeholders. For this position it is a significant advantage to document a previous role/experience as a Lead Structural engineer in EPC(I) contracts towards fabrication contractors and yards in the offshore industry.</li><li>Have a solid insight into the dynamics of a project to navigate confidently within the commercial and technical drivers for the project execution. </li><li>Working experience with analysis of offshore topside structures combined with participation in the full cycle of design, fabrication and installation for offshore topside structures is a significant advantage.</li><li>Full understanding of what it takes to design, analyse and document offshore structures according to the prevailing codes in the offshore industry.</li><li>Understanding of structural analysis programs such as SACS, ROSAP or similar for beam/truss- and plated/stressed skin structures.</li><li>Bachelor or master’s degree in engineering, preferably in Civil, or alternatively Mechanical with tilt towards (offshore) steel structures.</li><li>Fluency in English, written and orally.</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Qualities that will help you succeed in this role include:</strong></p><p>You are technically well-founded and able to lead and motivate your project team across geographical borders to deliver on commitments. Your design solutions demonstrate your understanding of how every detail fit into the bigger picture and you take ownership for the engineering design.</p><p> </p><p>You are a confident communicator to the project team and client, and when challenges and complex tasks arise, you use your analytical skills and ability to see opportunities. You have excellent ability to understand our client’s requirements and deliver consultancy and engineering at the required level for each project phase from early design through fabrication and installation offshore.  You are able maintain focus when controlling several parallel processes.  </p><p> </p><p>Personal qualities that will help you succeed in this role include a social, positive, and extrovert personality with a proactive and result-driven nature and an ability to build up strong work relationships.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Welcome to our Energy division</strong></p><p>Ramboll is at the forefront of addressing the green transition and offers a holistic approach to energy that supports the sector on the journey towards more sustainable solutions. With 1,800 experts in 14 countries, covering the full spectrum of technologies and all parts of the value chain from production and transmission to distribution, we plan, design and implement energy solutions all over the world.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Ramboll in Denmark</strong></p><p>Ramboll is a leading engineering, architecture and consultancy company founded in Denmark in 1945, with 16,500 employees globally. In Denmark, we are 3,500 colleagues delivering innovative solutions within Buildings, Transport, Water, Environment & Health, Energy and Management Consulting. We invite you to contribute to a sustainable future, working in an open, collaborative and empowering culture. </p><p> </p><p><strong>An equal opportunity employer</strong></p><p>At Ramboll, we respect human rights and believe that equality, diversity and inclusion foster the best results and a welcoming work environment without discrimination or harassment. Ramboll conducts all relations with its employees and applicants for employment in accordance with the applicable laws, directives, and regulations of the many countries in which we do business.</p><p> </p><p>We invite everyone to become a part of our journey. We believe that diversity is a strength and that differences between people add value to our organization and allows us to play our part in creating sustainable societies.</p><p> </p><p><strong>How to apply</strong></p><p>Apply online. Attach your CV, cover letter and relevant documents showcasing why you are the right fit for the role, and when you are available to start.</p>