Senior Structural Engineer - Kan Project

Since its creation in 2014, Harbour has grown to become one of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse independent oil and gas companies.  Today, Harbour is producing between 475,000 and 485,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day with significant production in Norway, the UK, Germany, Argentina and North Africa. Harbour benefits from competitive operating costs and resilient margins, and a broad set of growth options including near-infrastructure opportunities in Norway, unconventional scalable opportunities in Argentina and conventional offshore projects in Mexico and Indonesia. With low GHG emissions intensity and a leading CO2 storage position in Europe, Harbour remains committed to producing oil and gas safely and responsibly to help meet the world’s energy needs. Harbour is headquartered in London with approximately 5,000 staff and contractors across its operations and offices. 

Ours is an inclusive workplace where individuals can bring their whole selves to their job and feel recognised for the value they add. We are committed to creating a genuinely inclusive and supportive working environment to ensure everyone has a positive experience at work.

At Harbour Energy, we aim to recruit, retain and promote our people based on their unique skills, regardless of race, gender or background. We need excellent people to help shape and develop the future of our company. Could this be you?

If so, we want to hear from you.

Since its creation in 2014, Harbour has grown to become one of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse independent oil and gas companies.  Today, Harbour is producing between 475,000 and 485,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day with significant production in Norway, the UK, Germany, Argentina and North Africa.

Harbour benefits from competitive operating costs and resilient margins, and a broad set of growth options including near-infrastructure opportunities in Norway, unconventional scalable opportunities in Argentina and conventional offshore projects in Mexico and Indonesia. With low GHG emissions intensity and a leading CO2 storage position in Europe, Harbour remains committed to producing oil and gas safely and responsibly to help meet the world’s energy needs. Harbour is headquartered in London with approximately 5,000 staff and contractors across its operations and offices.  

Ours is an inclusive workplace where individuals can bring their whole selves to their job and feel recognised for the value they add. We are committed to creating a genuinely inclusive and supportive working environment to ensure everyone has a positive experience at work. 

At Harbour Energy, we aim to recruit, retain and promote our people based on their unique skills, regardless of race, gender or background. We need excellent people to help shape and develop the future of our company. Could this be you? 

If so, we want to hear from you. 

Purpose of Role:

• Support Facilities engineering studies and activities related to structural engineering, stability and foundation design.
• The Senior Structural Engineer is responsible for co-ordination and management of the structural discipline for the Kan project, ensuring structural system lifetime integrity including foundation design.
• Provide technical expertise for the Structural discipline by defining engineering standards and functional specifications, but initiating required independent verifications as required.
• Be a HSE role model towards others including the Contractors.  Raise awareness and align any gaps between Harbour Energy’s expectations and contractor’s safety standard. 
• Owner’s representative and Technical Authority for the Structural discipline. 

Critical Responsibilities (MAE/MATTE/HSES*):

• Ensuring that all activities are carried out in a safe manner complying with all regulatory requirements, legislation and Harbour Energy HSES Procedures.

Ethics and Compliance Responsibilities:

• Ensure that all activities and behaviours are carried out in accordance with Harbour Energy’s Ethics and Compliance Policies and Procedures, and to complete any compulsory compliance training as required.

Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence:

• Establish and Lead the verification activity within the structural discipline, ensuring review and verification of Contractors work.
• Manage interfaces and provide support to other technical functional areas such as  SURF, D&W, FPSO, etc.
• Ensure that relevant regulatory/company requirements are complied with, but in the event possible contribute in deviation handling.
• Contribute to the management of change process in terms of engineering reviews and potential changes.
• Initiate and Lead independent verification work ensuring delivery within expectations with regards to scope objective, cost and schedule
• Provide directives for safe and efficient platform design, foundation design and operations, including the establishment and follow up of specific performance requirements for structural barriers, structural capacity and structural redundancy.
• Contribute to project risk workshops.
• Identify and follow up relevant risks and mitigating actions. 
• Support the alignment with D&W, Subsurface, HSE, SURF and Regulatory and Commercial disciplines for proactive contribution to project success (delivery according to FDP).
• Ensure the right quality on the deliverables from contractor technical documents.
• Review documents, and consolidate comments from other disciplines,
• Ensuring correct design assumptions and analysis tools being deployed by the Contractors using updated and validated tools.
• Travel to contractor and construction site as required for the project to ensure the timely delivery of the tasks and project timeline/milestone.
• Expect detailed knowledge of various design codes and standards applicable for design of Steel Structure Design and Geotechnical foundation design.
• Proficient working in Structural analysis tools, applying Finite Element Modelling technique.
• Proficient in MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, etc.
• Expertise on local and international regulatory framework.

Critical Skills*, Qualifications, Experience, etc.:

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Education (Level of educational required)

• University degree, preferably master's degree in Structural Engineering or other relevant engineering subject.
• Project Management master's degree or PMP certification.

Professional Experience (Required experience in a clearly definable field of activity and total years)

• Minimum 10 years structural design engineering experience within the oil and gas industry, with special focus in steel structures and stability/foundation design of Jackets.
• Project experience working in the early phase of projects (feasibility studies and conceptual engineering)
• Detailed design experience from Jacket and Steel structure design.

Inclusive recruitment is a vital part of our diversity, equity and inclusion strategy. Whatever your background, if you feel you need an adjustment during our selection process to suit your needs, please let us know, and we will be happy to help. 

Inclusive recruitment is a vital part of our diversity, equity and inclusion strategy. Whatever your background, if you feel you need an adjustment during our selection process to suit your needs, please let us know, and we will be happy to help.

For further information or support on any of these points, please reach out to us at careers@harbourenergy.com