Senior Structural/Mechanical Designer

About the Position

We are seeking a Senior Structural/Mechanical Designer to join our multidiscipline engineering team at SGS Bateman. This role is pivotal in transforming conceptual designs into operational manual processing plants of all sizes and complexities.

Responsibilities

• Project Life Cycle

  • Develop a discipline strategy and design criteria to suit the unique project/client requirements
  • Adhere to the project program
  • Ensure planning of activities are regularly monitored and updated to achieve project deliverables timeously
  • Attend relevant project meetings and produce regular project status reports
  • Generate post-project feedback

• Design

  • Produce cost-effective and safe civil/structural designs
  • Produce tender and project civil/structural designs. Compare and assess project vs tender scope
  • Review alternatives and cost effectiveness
  • Produce quantity and man-hour budgets and list associated with scope
  • Understand project scope, quantity allowances and man-hour budget
  • Monitor changes to scope and effects to quantity and man-hour budget and ensure authorization to changes and compliance with quantity allowances
  • Verify civil/structural engineering software packages
  • Be fully conversant with restrictions and qualifications of software
  • Order of magnitude check of analysis results

• Administration

  • Maintain an effective record-keeping system for calculations, correspondence, and technical information
  • Indexing, records, design criteria, and calculations
  • Referencing to location of software input, numbers, dates, and signatures

• Client Relations (Internal & External)

  • Interact efficiently with Drawing Office and other departments
  • Guide and liaise with Drawing Office and provide engineering, safety, and ergonomic input during the conceptual layout phase and ongoing assistance during the engineering stage
  • Ongoing review of internal circulation drawings and timely approval of final drawings for construction
  • Provide continual engineering input to suppliers and subcontractors
  • Understand and respond to needs of other disciplines
  • Adopt a customer-oriented approach
  • Coordinate delivery of information

• Legislation Policies & Procedures

  • Adhere to company specifications, guidelines, and statutory codes of practice
  • Apply global SHE standards and ensure compliance
  • Regularly review and contribute towards improvement of procedures and systems
  • Ensure all QA procedures and guidelines are followed in all daily activities
  • Participate in quality assurance audits
  • Monitor vendor quality
  • Monitor site quality
  • Ensure adherence to the internal Project Management Operating System
  • Apply and review associated discipline Engineering Standards
  • Approve all drawings issued for construction by signing, dating, and including the engineer/technologist’s professional registration number

• Continuous Improvement

  • Provide suggestions for improving internal work methods and procedures and technological solutions on an ad-hoc basis, according to customer’s needs

Requirements

• Qualifications

  • B.Sc., B.Eng., or B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering
  • Registered as a Professional Engineer (Pr. Eng.) with ECSA, or eligible and able to obtain professional registration within 12 to 24 months of joining SGS Bateman

• Skills and Experience

  • Minimum of 6 years' experience in engineering design within the mining, minerals processing, petrochemical, or related industrial plant environment
  • Proven experience in piping design and 3D modelling, with proficiency in AutoCAD Plant 3D considered a strong advantage
  • Project Management - Knowledge of basic project management methods and knowledge of all project life cycle phases
  • Mechanical & Structural Design Criteria - Applications and improvements of technical knowledge into design criteria that suit project requirements. And/or support the design of new components/equipment
  • Technical Documentation - Ability to create, understand, and communicate technical specifications
  • Plant Layout development - Ability to layout the plant in a functional, safety, cost-effective way
  • Materials Fundamentals - Knowledge and understanding of basic information regarding materials and their properties used in engineering and manufacturing activities
  • Construction & Commissioning - Understanding of on-site construction work such as commissioning or customers and suppliers’ interactions
  • Mechanical/ Structure Investigation - Ability to evaluate failures, preventative maintenance, and assessment of existing structures
  • Dynamics Structure - Knowledge of design technique of dynamic structure (including vibration)
  • Cost Estimation - Understand cost of design (including cost of deliverables generation) and ability to estimate costs related to a project or specific activity
  • Basic IT Tools - Office Automation and Graphic Software
  • Procurement - Understanding of project cost control, budgeting, procurement, purchase-to-pay, and supply chain management
  • Engineering Calculations - Knowledge of engineering calculation techniques
  • Quality Engineering - Knowledge of quality methods, management systems, and procedures and/or understanding of quality features of products and parts
  • Quantity Estimation - Ability to estimate quantity for structures design (volumes, dimensions, masses, weights, etc.) to better fit the technical specifications
  • CAE Software - Familiarity and ability to use specific CAE software including setting up systems, procedures, and guidelines, e.g., PROKON and Strand7
  • Legislation and Standards - Knowledge of sector-specific law (e.g., Engineering safety requirements, Audit regulations, Insurance laws, etc.) and knowledge of standard specifications (e.g., Plant layout requirements, etc.) including the ability to integrate these standards
  • Innovation & Adaptability - The ability to adapt to different environments (team, technologies, countries, etc.) from a technical point of view, including the ability to find out new possible technological solutions according to customer’s needs

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a leading global inspection, verification, testing, and certification company
• Professional development opportunities
• Collaborative and innovative work environment

About the Company

SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing, and certification company. Recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity, SGS operates a network of over 2,600 offices and laboratories around the world with more than 97,000 employees. SGS Bateman’s multidiscipline engineering team provides integrated engineering services for processing plants and related operations, using proven ISO methodologies enhanced by innovative approaches.

Job Location

Kyiv, Ukraine

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