Senior Structural Engineer - Drilling/Risers

Role Type: Permanent
Location: Aberdeen
Salary: From £50,000 DOE
Industry: Offshore Oil and Gas

Introduction
My client, a world-leading engineering and design consultancy, are looking for a Senior Structural Engineer to join their Drilling Structures Team. This is an excellent opportunity to lead the technical delivery of offshore structures across the globe.

Responsibilities
You will have the opportunity to work on all aspects of drilling structures, including riser analysis, subsea conductor analysis, jack up conductor analysis, and platform conductor analysis for clients in the North Sea and worldwide. Typical design/analysis scopes include aspects such as:

• Conductor strength and stability.
• Wave fatigue.
• VIV fatigue.
• Derivation of latched envelopes.
• Axial load history analysis.
• Axial capacity assessment.
• Processing of monitoring data.
• Fishing gear snag load analysis.
• Clamp design.

Familiarity with the following codes/papers is considered advantageous:
• DNVGL-RP-0142: Wellhead fatigue analysis.
• DNV-RP-F204: Riser Fatigue - Rules and standards.
• DNVGL-RP-C203: Fatigue design of offshore steel structures.
• API-RP-16Q: Design, Selection, Operation, and Maintenance of Marine Drilling Riser Systems.
• Stahl and Baur (1980): Design Methodology for Offshore Platform Conductors.
• API-RP-2A: Planning, Designing, and Constructing Fixed Offshore Platforms.
• API RP 2GEO: Geotechnical and Foundation Design Considerations.
• ISO 19902: Petroleum and natural gas industries — Fixed steel offshore structures.

Qualifications
• Offshore structural analysis experience of drilling risers and conductors using software such as FLEXCOM (preferred) or ORCAFLEX.
• Technical understanding of environmental wave loading and/or vessel motions.
• Proven success in delivering drilling structures projects against time, cost, and quality objectives.
• Experience of managing small teams, including carrying out performance reviews.
• Engineering degree (honours or equivalent) in mechanical, structural, civil, naval architecture, or equivalent discipline.
• Chartered Engineer or working towards Chartered status with a professional institution.
• Self-motivated, positive, enthusiastic, reliable, consistent and mature approach to work – appropriate to delivering growth in the face of challenging market conditions.
• Willingness to develop a wide range of skills and flexibility to work on a variety of projects.
• It is desirable for the applicant to have offshore structural analysis experience of jackets, topsides, floating and subsea systems – particularly using SESAM software. Non-linear FEA experience in ABAQUS and USFOS and other comparable software packages is considered advantageous.

Apply now for this exciting opportunity by contacting Ryan Monk on 0207 419 5800 or email ryan.monk@trsstaffing.com

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