Reinforced Concrete & Steel Structure Design Engineer
Duration: 2 months
Location: Lyon, France
This Reinforced Concrete & Steel Structure Design Engineer (Sogara Brownfield) position offers the opportunity to support industrial structure design work within a French regulatory context, contributing to calculations, engineering documentation, and coordination across technical inputs for a brownfield project.
Role Context
The company is seeking a Reinforced Concrete & Steel Structure Design Engineer (Sogara Brownfield) to support design and calculation work for reinforced concrete and steel frame structures in an industrial environment. The role involves work linked to petrochemical and pharmaceutical installations, with documents prepared in English or French depending on the project.
About the Role
The Reinforced Concrete & Steel Structure Design Engineer (Sogara Brownfield) will contribute to the preparation and review of technical calculations, design notes, and structural documentation. This position supports the justification of works, the validation of modelling principles, and the alignment of design outputs with calculation results.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare calculation notes for preliminary sizing, sizing, and execution of foundation works, reinforced concrete structures, and metal frameworks supporting industrial installations.
- Establish the methodology for justifying the works and write basic data and descriptions of works.
- Validate modelling principles, including combinations of actions and weighting coefficients.
- Verify, comment on, and validate calculation notes prepared by other centres, design subcontractors, suppliers, and construction companies.
- Verify the conformity of plans drawn up from the dimensioning calculations.
- Write the design and/or calculation report for the structures.
- Monitor engineering changes to be passed on to construction companies and their subcontractors.
- Apply the methods and rules of study specific to the project and the specialty.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- Proven experience in the study of petrochemical plants on similar projects in the execution phase in France or Europe.
- Experience in revamping.
- Proven experience in the design and calculation of structures, as well as in monitoring construction companies.
- Knowledge of Eurocodes required (EC0, EC1, EC2, EC3, EC8).
- Application of the National Annexes in force in the country concerned.
- English, French (for French-speaking clients and partners, as well as for study documents).
- Required computer tools: AUTODESK Robot Structural Analysis, BENTLEY Staad Pro.
- Ability to work in a team and integrate into a study group; strong interpersonal skills with clients; decision-making ability that considers all stakeholders.
- Familiarity with American codes would be an asset for involvement in other projects.
About Airswift
Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift partners with organisations worldwide to deliver critical talent across complex projects, offering global reach and industry expertise.
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