Senior Structural Designer

About The Role

Do you enjoy a challenge? Do you want to make a difference? Are you ready to engineer change within the industry and wider community?

At PD&MS, we're determined to help drive the change that our world needs to see. To support current and new customers to be part of the energy transition, through future-friendly solutions.

You can be part of our vision

Working Pattern: Permanent / Full Time

As the Senior Structural Designer, you will:

• Be technically competent in own discipline and actively maintain own competence according to standards and pursue continuous professional development.
• Have experience in producing and design checking structural arrangement drawings.
• Liaise closely with other disciplines to ensure all equipment requirements are addressed in the design, specification of equipment, construction sequencing and commissioning.
• Provide value adding knowledge to constructability reviews and take consideration of layout restrictions, ergonomics, safety, utilities and maintainability.

The role offers:

• Development opportunities: the opportunity to develop within your technical department, to be appreciated, to work with people who have the same goals and are driven to succeed.
• Varied workload: you'll have the chance to transfer your skills and develop in our industry and deliver on projects across the fully energy sector, from conventional to renewable energies.
• Opportunities for transferable skills: if your experience isn't traditional oil & gas, we still want to hear from you If you've EPC experience in nuclear, rail, utilities, petro-chemical, renewables, marine and pharmaceuticals then please apply.
• Salary: Competitive Salary depending on knowledge and experience plus a range of benefits that support your finances, wellbeing, and family.
• Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, Income Protection, Private Medical Cover, Private Dental Cover, 33 days holiday, Holiday Buy, Flexible Working and Employee Assist Programme and CrashPlan.
• Location: Glasgow or Aberdeen – hybrid working 3 days in the office with flexibility to work from home for 2 days.

About You

You'll have experience of:

• Performing studies, FEED, and detail design of structural fabrications in an EPC environment or client role.
• Working in a brownfield environment.
• Civils design.
• Generating and design checking 3D models using Plant 3D.
• Primary and secondary structural designs.
• Producing and design checking installation sequence drawings, weight control reports and structural detail drawings.
• The offshore and onshore gas business but similar transferable industries skills will be also considered in lieu of specific O&G experience.
• Producing and design checking deliverables that conform to all applicable industry engineering codes and standards as well as the client's policies and procedures relative to the equipment being specified. Sound knowledge of relevant commonly used codes therefore required.
• Coordinating and controlling vendor document submissions and reviews.

Personal attributes

Our GENES, our core values, define who we are, what we stand for and how we deliver:

• Go the extra mile
• Empower our people
• Never get complacent
• Engage our partners
• Step up and deliver

If this sounds like you, then you could be a perfect fit.

Qualifications:

• HNC in relevant engineering discipline
• Offshore certification (preferred)

About Us

PD&MS has been engineering solutions in the energy industry and beyond since 2002, our ability to combine innovative ideas with technical expertise sets us apart. A flexible, full-service provider committed to supporting the energy transition, we deliver high-quality project work across the entire lifecycle of assets within the oil and gas, renewables and nuclear sectors. But whoever we work with, it's the energy, professionalism and purpose of our people that really makes the difference.

Be who you're meant to be, with PD&MS

We firmly believe in a work culture in which: individual differences are a source of collective strength and pride; everybody can perform to the best of their abilities and on a level playing field; and all colleagues feel they're part of our team and their voices will be heard. We're already heartened by the diversity within our organisation, but we recognise that there's always more we can do to improve further. We welcome applications from all persons regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status.

We're energised by the prospect of operating successfully today, tomorrow and far into the future. But we're also driven to ensure that our business activities are conducted in socially responsible, morally acceptable and sustainable ways.