Airswift
Structural Topsides – Principal Structural Designer
Location: Schiedam, NL
Contract duration: 1 year
Recruitment Partner: Airswift
Recruiter: Mariana Cortez
Keywords: Oil and Gas, Structural Design, Design of floating units
Our Company
We are currently recruiting for a Structural Topsides – Principal Structural Designer to be placed in Schiedam, NL and would be on a 1-year contract with possibility of extension. As a Principal Designer, you master the role of Designer in your discipline. You have a deep technical knowledge in your area of expertise and a very good understanding of the product. You are able to develop design autonomously embedding multi-disciplinary constraints with minimal input.
As Principal Designer, you produce top end design and ensure successful resolution of complex technical issues to meet project required time frame. You engage with peers in your Center and across Regional Centers to promote knowledge sharing and act as a consultant and mentor to less experienced designers within the discipline to ensure knowledge transfer, product memory, and application of best practices. The Principal Designer works in conjunction with Discipline Manager, Discipline Leads and engineering staff to seek continuous improvement in both quality and efficiency of work. The Principal Designer may act as Lead Designer for assigned projects.
Responsibilities
- Pro-actively utilize transverse (multidiscipline) Products knowledge and expertise, to develop innovative solutions in the early phases (concept, tendering, basic design);
- Influence, develop and motivate multiple designers from different disciplines and also influence a wider range of stakeholders in the win phase as well as the execution phase to ensure the right implementation of the design;
- Utilize technical knowledge and software tools to clearly depict the design that can be easily and correctly interpreted by others;
- Pro-actively communicate with Engineers and/or Designers to ensure design intent is understood to avoid rework;
- Plan and deliver assigned tasks accurately within the agreed time frame;
- Organize documents and deliverables so they are easy to understand and locate;
- Collaborate with Engineers and other Designers to share information, produce a high quality product, and resolve design conflicts;
- Proactively provide Discipline Manager and/or Discipline Lead with updates regarding activity status, highlight concerns as they arise, and provide guidance to support Discipline Lead to stay within the allocated budget on the project;
- Participate in the coordination of tool development and design standardization across Regional Centers;
- Provide input at Group engineering level on development of tools and processes.
- Actively share experience/knowledge with peers and participate in applicable project design reviews;
- Demonstrate depth and breadth of technical knowledge to ensure technical solutions account for design factors such as constructability, installability, operability, vendor capability;
- Challenge technical solutions by bringing your technical experience and knowledge and promote best approach; apply expertise in the practical application of new technology in industry;
- Understand how assigned tasks fit within the project schedule and affect other stakeholders in meeting deadlines;
- Demonstrate adaptability in implementing change while ensuring MOC procedures are used;
- Promote continuous improvement within the Discipline by maintaining/sharing the latest industry developments; conduct research to solve unique and complex problems;
- Comply with project scope, work instructions, specifications, codes, industry standards and regulations per project requirements;
- Participate to PL management and Client facing meetings and be able to promote proposed solutions based on recognized skills in discipline;
- Propose standardization development in order to have a more efficient engineering and lower associated cost.
Skills / Qualifications
- More than 8 years of relevant working experience in the field of structural design.
- Strong management, collaboration, and communication skills.
- Deep technical knowledge and product understanding.
- Extensive experience in design and project management.
- Proficiency in design software tools.
- Experience in Design of floating units in the Oil & Gas Industry.
The next step
We have an exceptional team in place, and we are pleased to be able to appoint a further person to our growing business. We are aware that you may not ‘tick all the boxes’, but if you believe you can genuinely offer some valuable skills and experience to our business, please in the first instance contact our recruitment partner Airswift.
