Senior Structural Engineer

Optimus Aberdeen Ltd; Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - GBP 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy is seeking a Senior Structural Engineer to join its team in Aberdeen or Glasgow. This full-time role offers a hybrid working model with flexibility to work remotely. The successful candidate should possess significant structural design experience in offshore oil and gas, particularly in brownfield projects. Key responsibilities include identifying work scope, project planning, and producing safe, cost-effective engineering solutions. A degree in a relevant subject and familiarity with AutoDesk products are required.

Benefits

Generous benefits package

Pension

Enhanced sick pay

Income protection

Qualifications

• Significant experience in structural design, particularly in offshore oil and gas.
• Understanding of Asset Integrity Management and decommissioning.
• Experience working on brownfield projects.

Responsibilities

• Identify the scope of work required.
• Input to project plans and schedules.
• Produce cost-effective engineering solutions.
• Undertake onshore and offshore surveys.
• Supervise the time of others.

Skills

Structural design experience

Team working

Customer and quality focus

Initiative and responsiveness

Education

Degree in a relevant subject

Tools

AutoDesk products

Job description

Optimus Plus are now looking for a Senior Structural Engineer to join our team on a full‑time employee basis. This role can be based in our office in Aberdeen or Glasgow on a flexible hybrid working model where 2 days per week can be worked remotely. An excellent salary + benefits package is available for the successful candidate.

Do you enjoy a challenge? Do you want to make a difference? Would you like to work within a friendly and inclusive team? We have an exciting opportunity working within both new and existing projects, creating bespoke, safe and cost‑effective engineering solutions for our clients within the energy sector.

Suitable candidate's will have significant structural design experience working in the offshore oil and gas industry and in particular in brownfield projects. Any knowledge of the North Sea assets, Asset Integrity Management, life extension studies or decommissioning would be beneficial.

Key Duties:

• Identify the scope of work required
• Input to project plans and schedules.
• Identify areas of concern during any project or study.
• Produce cost‑effective engineering solutions that are fit for purpose, safe and add value to address operational and maintenance issues in the design and liaise with colleagues for the best solution
• Undertake Surveys, both onshore and offshore
• Supervise the time of others

Our Senior Engineers can expect to work in a modern environment, enjoy flexible working and will be offered a range of working options to suit individual situations. We have a generous benefits package available which includes pension, enhanced sick pay and income protection to name a few.

Our ideal candidate will enjoy team working, will be customer and quality focused, can use their own initiative and will be responsive to our business and client needs.

We’d like you to have a degree in a relevant subject and significant previous experience in detail design with an understanding of other disciplines. You need to have some experience and an interest in working with AutoDesk products.

About Us

We are all about practical delivery. Our expert engineering solutions are always tailored, pragmatic, credible and fit for purpose. That is the Optimus way.

Optimus is an integrated, multi‑discipline engineering design, project delivery and consultancy organisation. Founded in 1999, the business began as a consultancy with a headcount of just four. In the intervening years, Optimus has grown into a highly respected international engineering consultancy with almost 100 employees working for clients worldwide.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and value inclusion and diversity. We welcome applications from all persons regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status.