Structural Engineer Job at WTS Energy

WTS Energy provides recruitment and manpower services for the global oil and gas and energy industries. We supply engineers and consultants to our clients' projects and operations, and perform employment outsourcing services such as workforce management in oil and gas regions around the world. WTS Energy operates globally with offices in 14 countries and is operational in over 50 countries.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Structural Engineer

Job Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Follow-up Engineer’s activities related to structures design studies and ensure compliance with General specifications and with the requirements of the project documentation.
• Liaise with contractor’s design staff as and when required to ensure efficient and timely resolution of all issues identified during engineering work.
• Monitor construction, outfitting activities at the fabrication yard and during site installation and construction, hook-up, and commissioning.
• Liaise with other Company staff at site and at other locations for coordination of interface design and other activities.
• Highlight and report any deficiencies or changes to the Contractual scope of the basis of design. Management is to be immediately informed regarding any deviation, risk or concerns related on HSE, technical, planning or cost issues.
• Review and analyse planning updates including critical path for discipline related activities, review and
• approve progress for discipline related activities, and coordinate with company Engineering Manager.
• Manage technical evaluation of the bids and prepare technical recommendation with Engineering Manager.
• Follow-up procurement, construction, expediting, and assist in pre-commissioning for discipline related activities.
• Review and comment on Contractor documents within the project review cycle.
• Anticipate problems in his/her discipline, proffer solutions or escalate to Company’s Engineering Manager when necessary.
• Ensure that Contractor resources and organization are adequate and competent for achieving the discipline engineering and procurement works.
• Prepare responses to all technical requested from Contractor and Project with the aim to add value by minimizing costs without sacrificing safety or the level of quality. This includes offering solutions and escalation to the Engineering Manager.
• Provide detailed assistance to company Engineering Manager on derogations, exemption, modification requests.
• Undertake technical evaluation of Change Order Requests for the parts related to the discipline.
• To participate in all audit activities (HSE, PTRs, HAZOPS…).
• Ensure adequate workload sharing with discipline engineering and participate in inter discipline reviews. (e.g. QA/QC activities, precom/com, start-up, O&Ms…)
• Participate and propose solution in interfaces resolution between Contractors.
• Ensure close interface with Engineering and Construction contractor, participate, and propose solution through Engineering, Procurement Construction, Modification, and commissioning to ensure delivery of Project.
• Mark-up drawings on site for purposes of preparing as built drawings.

Requirements

• Qualification: Bachelor’s degree (Structural Engineering) equivalent or more.
• Professional Experience (number of years): 10 Experience in the design of offshore projects