Senior Civil/Structural Designer
Key Skills: MicroStation, AutoCAD & FEED
Location: Brno, Czech Republic
Contract: 12 Months
Salary / Package: Hourly rate
Timeframe: ASAP
Recruitment Partner: Airswift Account Manager: Robert Caldwell
Key words: MicroStation, AutoCAD & FEED
Our business
Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to our clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with the unique needs of our clients. With over 800 employees and 6,000 contractors operating in over 50 countries, our geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry and the level of experience, exposure and expertise that the organization has is unparalleled.
Airswift is supporting a global engineering, to work on an international LNG project, as well as working on a number of other projects with the energy transition sector.
We are seeking an experienced Senior Civil/Structural Designer, who will be responsible for ensuring the development of 3D models, as well as ensuring design deliverables are completed and issued per project specifications.
Key Responsibilities and background
- Prepare and develop arrangement and detail conceptual, FEED, and detail design drawings of high technical quality and professional consistent presentation ensuring clarity and ease of construction
- Develop 3D models and ensure clash free with all other disciplines
- Ensure design deliverables are completed and issued per project specifications, procedures, and within agreed schedules
- Apply knowledge and/or skills to complete a variety of day-to-day activities within own area
- Continue developing skills to complete repetitive tasks efficiently
- Prioritize and organize own work to meet agreed upon deadlines
- When acting as Lead Designer, in addition:
- Direct and coordinate small Design team as Lead Designer.
- Lead projects as Lead Designer engaging the participation of other disciplines. Coordinate all activities within own discipline and Discipline interfaces with other disciplines.
- Lead the design team of the assigned work area and complete within planned schedule and budget, in accordance with standards, client and project-specific procedures and to a high professional standard.
- Plan, organize and direct all aspects of Discipline execution on the assigned project including scope, deliverables, schedule and all Discipline manpower resources - agree allocations with the Engineering Manager.
- Ensure interfaces and deliverables are clearly identified.
- Maintain responsibility for progress and productivity, identifying any required corrective action.
- Act as project-based Discipline point of contact in communications and meetings with Project Team, Customer, vendor/supplier and/or subcontractor counterparts; and relevant agencies such as certifying authorities, auditors, third parties, etc.
- Become fully familiar with Project Scope of Work, specifications, schedule and inter-discipline requirements, including identifying concerns as early as practicable and taking appropriate initiatives to address them
- Prepares Civil and Structural layouts from data generated by others, in close liaison with Civil and Structural engineers and counterparts from other disciplines
- Assist Lead Engineer/Designer in raising technical queries, preparing estimates and job scope changes
- Attend (As Lead Designer) project Kickoff and Review meetings, Vendor meetings
- Monitor and coordinate the design team remotely if required.
- Ensure that the work is carried out in accordance with requirements, Client and Statutory Design Codes, Standards or Procedures with particular focus on Health and Safety Policies
- Develop 3D Models and ensure clash free model in coordination with all other disciplines requirements
- Organizes design work, including setting up 3D and 2D systems
- Supervises Designers and Associate Designers
- Executes relevant administration and filing
- Checks designs, with particular emphasis on interfaces with other disciplines
- Checks designs for operational requirements, constructability, maintainability and HSE aspects
- Provides drafting support as required
- Reviews other discipline drawings
- Reviews supplier drawings
- Be able to perform the engineering of Miscellaneous steel
Critical Skills & Personal Attributes:
- Auto lisp Programming, 3D Model creation, Menu and/or Macro compilation skills would be an advantage.
- Seasoned knowledge of engineering standards and specifications.
- Able to work independently.
- Good working knowledge of English, both oral and written.
- HSE, TQM and cost conscious.
- Good organizer, motivator and supervisor.
- Keen on improving effectiveness of the work.
- Show flexibility and ensure proper hand-over with regards to:
- o The reassignment to other departments/construction sites/fabrication yards.
- o The replacement of colleagues during illness and holidays.
- o The provision of assistance to other colleagues with heavy workload (also other projects) when possible/desirable.
- o The managing/learning of current working methods and software applications.