SENIOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Location:
Farnborough, UK
Contract duration:
initial contract duration until 31 Dec 2027 - renewable
Start Date:
ASAP
PRIMARY PURPOSE
Provide client-side technical authority and engineering governance for all Civil, Structural and Architectural (CSA) scopes, ensuring designs are safe, fit-for-purpose, constructible and decision-ready.
Accountable for the technical integrity, quality, integration and maturity of CSA scopes across Feasibility Study and Execution phases.
Enforces Group Technical Standards (GTS), Project Management Framework (PMF) and Investment Development Model (IDM) requirements, and ensures readiness for project decision gates.
Acts with EPCM contractors and Integrated Owner Teams (consultants, experts SMEs), ensuring multidisciplinary coordination.
Evaluated according to the P&D technical competencies and capability framework (Mental Processing, Knowledge, Technical Skills, Social Process Skills, Application)
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsible for engineering completeness, quality, integration, and L1 assurance of assigned project scope
Acts as Owner’s technical authority for CSA disciplines, ensuring engineering is safe, constructible, operable, and decision ready.
Responsible for ensuring the quality, maturity and completeness of engineering across the Feasibility Study and Execution phase of the project
Verifies contractor engineering deliverables are fully aligned with GTS, PMF, IDM and stage-gate maturity requirements.
Validates engineering readiness for critical decision gates (FS & execution release)
Ensures CSA discipline inputs contributes to overall constructability, operability, safety-in-design, and sustainability principles.
Ensure discipline, design, maturity and compliance with corporate and regulatory standards.
Lead Owner Level 1 (L1) reviews of critical CSA engineering
Verifies CSA deliverables meet stage completeness before recommending acceptance.
Responsible for proper management changes, both internally and from engineering service contractors.
Identify and ensure CSA discipline risks are included in risk register, including operational, safety, and integration risks.
Identify long-lead items and technical interfaces impacting construction sequence and transition plan to operations.
Responsible for supporting the delivery of the Feasibility Study and Execute phase with the agreed schedule and budget.
CAPABILITIES REQUIRED TO DO THE ROLE
Mental Processing Ability:
Ability to manage complexity, integrate multidisciplinary inputs and make risk-based decisions.
The ability to organise and process information of varying volume and complexity to solve problems and make effective decisions.
Demonstrated ability to successfully deliver work at the required level of complexity.
Leadership and teamwork capability.
Techniques and approaches to achieve success in multidisciplinary and multi-project environments.
Strong judgement in assessing engineering maturity prior to decision gate approvals.
Qualifications:
An undergraduate qualification (Bachelors / Honours degree or equivalent) for the applicable discipline.
Postgraduate specialisation in Civil or Structural (preferred)
Registered with a UK recognized engineering intitule as a professional / charted engineer. Able to work as such in UK.
Proven track record with extensive practical experience.
Minimum 10 years as a registered engineer.
Technical Knowledge:
Experience in engineering development for mining projects.
Knowledge of applicable international and local engineering standards.
Knowledge of legislation related to engineering disciplines and governance.
Knowledge of HAZID and HAZOP processes and experience of the process and or leading of design reviews.
Experience in EPCM environments and multidisciplinary integration. Including engineering development, procurement, contract management, site support, and vendor engineering review, as a Senior Engineer or Engineering Coordinator on large-scale projects, including at least one project exceeding USD 500 million, and preferably one exceeding USD 1 billion Total Installed Cost (TIC).
Experience working in Owners Team.
Ability to deliver value engineering, incorporating innovation and complementary disciplines (safety, environment, operations and maintenance, sustainability, and mine closure).
Knowledge of PMI guidelines and tools, as well as Agile and Lean Construction methodologies.
Knowledge — following appropriate training — of IDM / ICBS / PMF frameworks.
Proficiency in project management software such as Microsoft Project, Primavera, ACONEX, and others.
Advanced proficiency in MS Office.
Detailed knowledge of BIM methodology and datacentric delivery principles.
Advanced level of English.
Technical Skills:
Agile Discipline Management with Owner-side oversight of contractor-developed engineering scope.
Governance and assurance of engineering scopes across the Feasibility Study and Execution phase, particularly for multidisciplinary underground mining projects,
Change Management with formal control and approval of discipline-related technical changes
Risk Management, including ownership of discipline risk identification, technical risk evaluation, mitigation strategies, and escalation to decision gate forums.
Schedule Management, ensuring discipline deliverables are sufficiently mature, integrated, and stable to support irreversible project decisions.
Engineering maturity assessment and formal validation of deliverables aligned with stage-gate readiness (FS & Execution).
Continuous improvement leadership, embedding lessons learned and best practice into design activities
Application:
Experience and willingness to work in Mining Operations, addressing technical aspects to ensure that user requirements are met.
The drive, determination, persistence, and commitment to apply the other capability elements to deliver safe, productive, and sustainable outcomes.
Focus on Engineering Maturity: the degree to which engineering deliverables are sufficiently defined, complete, integrated, and stable to reliably support the decisions required at a specific project stage.
Commitment to engineering maturity: ensuring deliverables are sufficiently defined, integrated and stable to support irreversible construction decisions.