Senior Design Engineer

Job description

Senior Design Engineer

Aberdeen based with an annual salary of £48,000 to £56,000 per annum plus a benefits package within a rapidly expanding company
- Do you want to work in a rapidly growing, sustainable company who have ambitious growth plans?_
- Monday-Friday (40 hours) Negotiable working hours_

Benefits Package
- 29 days paid holiday
- Ongoing personal development programme to develop your career and potential.
- Enhanced pension scheme 4% contributed by the company after probation.
- Private healthcare for the family after probation.
- Death in Service

Company Details
- Crane specialists with expertise in marine, offshore, port, shipyards, construction and industrial sectors

Are you?
- An experienced user in CAD packages, preferably AutoCAD & Autodesk Inventor
- An advanced user with FEM simulation software, preferably FS2000, ANSYS and Inventor
- Experienced carrying out site surveys (onshore and offshore locations)

Do you?
- Have a bachelor’s degree in mechanical, Civil, Design or Structural Engineering.
- Have 5-10 Years experience in a design engineering environment
- Have experience in Structural/Mechanical Engineering design and analysis
- Have up-to-date knowledge of relevant industry legislation and trade practices including class society
- Have a well established reputation in the Offshore Industry within the relevant marketplace

The Role

The Design Engineer will:

- Be responsible for undertaking design and draughting projects.
- Manage projects from cradle to grave or collaborate on projects with colleagues, delegate tasks and check for quality and consistency
- Have meetings with clients, listen to project specifications and suggest approaches which translate into suitable design solutions.

Management and Leadership:

- Use interpersonal skills to work co-operatively with colleagues, peers, internal and external partners, working pro-actively across organisational boundaries, sharing information, new knowledge, innovation, and growth ideas
- Drive and deliver high standards/results. Ability to review priorities and update plans accordingly
- See the connection between resource needs of different activities / priorities and develops systems to improve synergies
- Analyses and challenges the use of resources against business objectives
- Incorporate existing operational management systems from within the group whilst utilizing own experience and skills to develop systems according to local market place requirement.
- Aligning behaviour with priorities and company business goals to present a consistent positive image.
- Ensuring process, business units, policies and practices support the overall achievement of the business and the customer proposition.
- In relation to specific future issues, the Design Engineer should demonstrate ability to act quickly and decisively to prevent actions which may mean a significant decrease in output
- Understands the medium to long-term implications of potential problems and acts to develop plans to minimise effects
- Anticipates and prepares for future obstacles that may be less obvious to others
- Scans the marketplace to identify future changes that may impact on own area and acts creatively to benefit from them
- Thinks broadly about better aligning action to benefit the customer expectation

HSQE Rresponsibilities:

- Ensuring team members follow current business policies and procedures:

- Design Services, Service, Business Development, HSQE, HR, IT and Finance.
- Identifying and reporting non-compliance with policies and procedures and assisting in resolving the issues in a timely manner.
- Participating in improvement programmes and implementing change.
- Supporting a First Class safety culture and ensuring environmental compliance:

- Lead by example and communicate to all of their colleagues that safe work and safe operations is an absolute requirement
- Train and developing the Production team to the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
- Demonstrating a collaborate, supportive and understanding approach in all communications

Are you interested in learning more about

A company that values its employees, where you are more than just a number?

A company where your ambitions are matched with by the opportunity within a company, where you are supported to maximise your ambitions?